Something's rotten in the state of .........
Added 1/4/2010
Where to start !!!!! An appalling overhyped load of cobblers . I am beginning to think the other reviewers must have watched a different movie to the one I endured. Boring stupid and a total waste of time and talent. You will be lucky to crack a grimace let alone laugh out loud. There is one redeeming feature and that is the luminous beauty of the young female star,Zooey Deschanel. She is a knockout!!!!
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Unrealized potential (Plot spoilers)
Added 12/6/2009
For most of its running time, this movie was excellent, but as it wound down, it totally collapsed. It was very nicely low key, but there were a number of plot holes that remained unfilled, in particular the character of Brian, played by Paul Dano(who also "produced" the film). Brian is attacked by a homeless man at least twice, but we have no idea why, and an almost total lack of extras doesn't even give us a commentary track, which might explain what happens. Brian is also shot at by someone, & hit once, but was it the homeless guy, possibly the One-Armed Man, or someone on the Grassy Knoll?
Brian adopts a Chinese baby, and as the film ends, the baby is welcomed into Brian's family, as is Zooey Deschanel's character, Happy/Harriet, and suddenly the film simply ends.
I really enjoyed the film, and the cast did a great job with what they had to work with, until the completely unsatisfying ending. The "ending" ticked me off so badly that I dreamt later that night that myself, Bruce Willis, and a stripper from Portland set off to find out what the heck happened with this movie. Just like in real life, we never found out, and Bruce Willis was REALLY pissed off, as should whoever bankrolled this, & allowed it to be released in this condition.
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Two people love story
Added 11/14/2009
I really like the work from Zooey D. She is a unique character. The story works but it's pace is somewhat slow. I did enjoy watching it, even thou it starts cunfusingly.
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i watched this movie wanting more from it. i dont like the nasty words all the time. i would not watch this movie again
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Hipster Fetish
Added 10/18/2009
As people get older, simple things in life become the source of great pleasure - e.g. bowel movements. Ed Asner must be really old, because he seemed to really enjoy dropping a gigantic deuce on this movie.
As someone else mentioned, the characters are absolutely unbelievable, even for a stylized, check-your-brain-out fantasy. Putting a dropout actor in a lab coat and putting a rat in his hand does not make him a scientist. HEY WHAT IF WE HAVE HIM DRINK BOOZE OUT OF A BEAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sigh.
At first I thought it was shaping up as some kind of unfamiliar male fantasy. The cover suggests this for the same reason - the inexplicable appearance of whats-her-face, the hottie. Her motives are utterly alien, so I figured the character's mind is being driven by a screenwriter who has a specialty splash guard on his monitor. As it turns out, it wasn't shaping up at all. No character is developed to the point at which I could describe them, much less categorize them.
I'm sure the screenwriter set out to make this quirky - very deliberately, in-your-face quirky. IT'S LIEK TOTELY QUIRKY! I'M A MAKE IT LIEK THE TITANIC OF WES ANDERSON. It ends up being a menagerie of unconnected quirks in a timeline of unbelievable events yielding incompletely rendered characters telling an unfinished/unstarted story.
Suxxorz.
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