Danny is a guy, who like a lot of us, gets sick of living the same routine day after day. By accident, via helium balloons tied to a chair, he ends up lifting himself out of his dull, meaningless life and lands admist an explosion of fireworks, into this town who instantly adores him, despite one mean-spirited cop.

He finally has the chance he’s always been dreaming of to start over. He finds a woman he gets along with, way more than his current girlfriend; he finds a more meaningful job and even dabbles in politics, something he’d never considered and has all the friends he could dream of having.

It’s at this point, however that the movie starts to get a little predictable. We all know that good things don’t last forever and that there are consequences to just uprooting your life and beginning anew. Some of the old stuff comes with you. And so, all of the things he’s left behind slowly catch up to him, since by this time his girlfriend and friends have wondered where he floated off to and are looking to find him.

The way his past catches up to him and his current life in this new town are interesting, but you can see where this movie is going a mile away. That doesn’t make it any less entertaining, in fact it proves the point that you can’t have everything you want without a cost, but that coming close to it is easier than we think. Perhaps we’d all benefit from tying ourself to a chair linked with balloons. Sure we’d probably all hit electric wires, but in theory getting away for awhile wouldn’t kill us. Maybe all we need to do is to travel or just mix things up a little like Danny did. Something good has to come of it.