The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a film about a perpetual day-dreamer

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a film about a perpetual day-dreamer who is shy and lacks confidence, but he frequently goes into elaborate daydreams about doing cool, exciting and heroic things. One day, a missing photograph that he needs in order to complete the final issue of LIFE magazine spurs him to embark on a global adventure, at which point the cynics in the audience will all start wondering if he’s just dreaming the whole thing. It seems that Walter (Ben Stiller) himself has similar questions. The third trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty shows him grabbing a sailor’s beardy face in disbelief after jumping out of a helicopter and onto a boat, though this might also be taken as a sign that his grip of reality isn’t completely secure. If there’s one word to describe the look of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, “inspirational” would probably do it. The remote locations shown and the crazy adventures that Walter goes on would probably work nicely as an American Airlines commercial, were it not for the fact that Walter seems to travel almost exclusively through unconventional means.