Something Always Happens

Michael Powell returns to comedy with a combination of his visionary main character with the lighter tone of something like Hotel Splendide, and he does it to results that don’t quite come together. It’s amusing pretty consistently, but Something Always Happens has plot elements that make no sense, a heavy reliance on coincidence, and a child character who doesn’t really add much of anything. The movie is never dull or outright bad, but the screenplay really needed another pass to get everyt...