Is "All About Schmidt" really a Zen movie?

In the new film "All About Schmidt" Jack Nicholson plays 
the title character, Warren Schmidt. And as
we follow the title character down into the abyss
of human emotions one might have thought there was an
inherent criticism of society, Schmidt or Schmidts no
good son-in-law or something?

But then I read this Nicholson interview:
"If viewers think the film is critical of any classes of people,
I (Nicholson) would disagree". 
"As an artist you see it, but I don't think you are mean about it.
What better balance could you have as an artist?"

You then wonder how detached you can get? :-)

Schmidt, the retired insurance salesman, who loses his wife 
and decides to stop his daughters wedding to a waterbed salesman 
As this is the only way he feels he can make an impact in the world. 
And then he fails - and the daughter marries the
deranged waterbed Salesperson. And along the way
Nicholson really gets to dress down, 
due to the state of disarray in which Schmidt finds his life. 
Even the poster has an unshaven, disheveled Jack 
Nicholson looking lost. 

According to Nicholson:
"Nonetheless this one is about humanity. This is a human movie, 
human problems, human aspirations, human frailties. 
If I wasn't in it myself I would say it is quite beautiful."

No solutions, no condemnation, no criticism,
no blame - just Nicholson sitting there being lost.
After the Nicholson interview I am not even sure
that there is warning in there somewhere?

So in lack of better words I end up thinking
that All About Schmidt is really a Zen movie :-)

Obviously Oscar talk has begun already, 
and surely Nicholson will get one for .....
looking kind of lost :-)

-Simon