"No, I think it more likely that you were a gazelle, with long, graceful legs, gamboling through the underbrush. Perhaps we met once, a chance encounter in a forest glade. I must have been an antelope or an ibex. What times we must have had. Foraging together for sustenance, snorfling water from a forest stream, picking the grubs and burrs from one another's coats. Or perhaps we simply touched our horns briefly and went our separate ways."

You know, for kids!

Sam Raimi and the Coen Brothers are perfect bedfellows. This film is wonderfully imaginative, astoundingly hilarious and oddly heartfelt. An utter masterpiece.

This is one of those films I can watch whenever it comes on one of the movie channels.
I think it captures the essence of a 30's comedy, with its rapid fire delivery, and incredible dialog.

You know...For kids!

The comedies of the Coen Brothers are known for being a little...well, odd, and The Hudsucker Proxy is no exception. But it's really that screwball attitude that didn't work for me overall, and to be perfectly frank, it got kind of old and fast. I get what the Coens are going for with it, but this movie's brand of humor rarely ever made me laugh more than chuckle. The rest of the time, I was just pretty impassive about everything. Tim Robbins certainly gives it his all, but I thought both Paul Newman and Jennifer Jason Leigh were pretty bland. On the upside, though, the film's production design is fantastic. A lot of the time, I was more impressed by the sets than the story and actors. Overall, I found this to be quite a strange movie, but not in the enjoyable sense. Then again, look who's behind it.

There's a lot of great stuff here, but it doesn't operate on the high level of the best Coen Brothers movies. Still, it's worth seeing, certainly if you like the Coen Brothers.

The Cohens explore the importance of second chances and the great karmic circle of life with punchy dialouge in this satire of big business.

Στο πρώτο τους εγχείρημα μετά το απόλυτο αριστούργημά τους (barton fink) τα αδέρφια επιχειρούν να μεταφέρουν τον σκηνοθετικό κόσμο τους σε μια ανάλαφρη κωμωδία διανθισμένη με χαρακτήρες-καρικατούρες και μια ολομέτωπη επίθεση στο new age αμερικάνικο επιχειρείν.Ο καταπληκτικός tim robbins δεν καταφέρνει όμως να καλύψει το μέτριον της όλης ιστορίας με απότέλεσμα το hudsucker να αποτελεί μία από τις πιο χαμηλότερες στιγμές των coen.

fun

Generally regarded as one of the Coens' few misfires, there's still a lot to love here - the amply demonstrated love of mid-century Manhattan skyscrapers, the ruthlessly fast-paced dialogue that makes Gilmore Girls sound like funeral doom, the characters that blow up inaccessibly specific types into caricatures so bent we might not even recognize what they're a caricature of. It's recognizably a Coens movie through and through, and a good pick for a movie to go to when you're a little worn out on their obvious classics.

The blu-ray kinda sucks though. Picture's fine, but it's bare-bones and expensive.