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IF You’re After a Baby-Brained Pixar Wannabe, John Krasinski Provides

IF, written and directed by John Krasinski, seems to have absorbed from Pixar primarily the idea that it is funny and eventually somehow moving when magical creatures and/or made-up worlds have quotidian-sounding rules to follow. In a particularly literal-minded touch, Krasinski extends this vision to jokes – hence the colorblindness to explain Blue, hence the “weird” IFs with pedestrian backstories.