"Greener Grass" is both an absurdist film as well as a weird allegory about consumer culture in the West. While it clearly is making fun of suburbia and the need for many to keep up with their neighbors, so much of the story is nonsensical and confusing....deliberately so.

The film mostly centers on two women...as well as the folks around them. Most seem to have no real emotions and act much like robots or folks from "The Stepford Wives". As for their behaviors, they all seem very random and bizarre or they simply do what their friends suggest or what will make them look good to their friends. For example, early in the film when one woman admires another's new baby...she just gives it to her. Later, the baby is confused with a Golden Retriever and so the family just assume the child changed. They are confused when it is kicked off out of the soccer game as well as the school's math team. Another time, a woman wants another baby...and she puts a soccer ball under her clothes to simulate pregnancy. When it's 'born' she names the soccer ball 'Wilson' and folks admire the new baby. Then, there's the young kid who acts as if he's possessed and he's mean, curses and is abusive. There's plenty more....but suffice to say that it really never makes any sense in this bizarro world.

While I am sure the film is making fun of suburbia, it is so over the top and nonsensical that that message is soon lost. Also, the film simply suffers from there being too much weirdness and randomness that the story gets a bit dull and I felt myself losing interest. Originally, it was a short film and I think the momentum is such that a full-length story like this is simply too much for most folks to enjoy. A case where shorter is better.

I never expected any movie to be this blatantly weird, but here it is. This black comedy from Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe (neither of whom I had ever heard of before now) shows all sorts of tensions arising in a gaudy suburban neighborhood. And by gaudy I mean that their clothes are an assault on the senses. There's bound to be something that'll go awry.

Whether you interpret "Greener Grass" as a parody of suburban gothic (the genre that includes "The Ice Storm" and "American Beauty") or a straightforward, unabashedly bizarre comedy, it's one to enjoy. I'm surprised that they were able to get funding, given the oddball, less-than-profitable nature of the story.

The only cast members whom I recognized were SNL cast members Beck Bennett and John Milhiser, as well as D'Arcy Carden (Janet on "The Good Place").

I haven't seen anybody mentioning that this satire is based on so much truth. It's like watching a documentary xD. Nowadays people strive to be better than even their friends and compete without compassion for others, just a fake show and masquerade for everybody else.

It's a funny movie about how people think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and don't look at where they stand in their lives when everything's falling apart because they are just looking at distractions and trying to fit into that theatre play that they might not even agree to, but follow the sheep like because of being afraid to be left out and not fitting in.