her?

My recent trip to the theater was to see the Spike Jonze movie, her.

Just say that's 2 and a half hours of my life I will never get back.

It's a commentary on the increasingly plugged in life many of us lead through a variety of screens on our phone, our PC (if you still have one of those), tablets, Googleglass, etc. etc., etc.

Linked to an electronic umbilical... Joaquin Phoenix's character is upgraded to a new operating system (OS) that is so intuitive because of artificial intelligence that it learns more than the type of websites to visit and what kind of Chinese food to order online.  The movie careens ahead from there.

Yohannson, make that Scarlett Johansson, is Samantha the voice of the new OS.  She and Phoenix, as Theodore Twombly, fall for each other.

The premise is interesting, but a little far-fetched.  It's falling in love with a voice in a box, or a box in a cloud.  They do, and soon he is referring to Samantha as his girlfriend.

For the first 60 to 90 minutes, I bought in - thought is was interesting and wondering where the film was taking me.

An aside about the look of the movie - it is "set" in the near future, but to me it looks everyone shopped someplace in the 1970s with lots of pastels and very high-waisted pants.

From there it takes an Orwellian descent into what only makes sense as a commentary on how each of us are more consumed about answering those texts, emails, instant messages, and Facebook status updates than the actual world around us.

Theodore, he's never Ted or Theo - always Theodore, finally signs the divorce papers from his wife and she confronts him with finding the partner he always wanted.

He and Samantha have issues - and by the end of the movie he and a friend similarly jilted by an OS are climbing to the roof of their high-rise apartment.

At this point, I was hoping they would throw the hand-held devices off the roof and follow them over the side.

"her" - may be - the "not feeling so good movie of the year."