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Paul

content warning: Rick Hoffman

Nothing special, but a good cast and an interesting plot. Fun, but probably not something I’d strive to watch again.

I can only take so much Jim Carrey at once and this movie certainly toed the line between Just-Enough-Jim and Too-Goddamn-Much-Jim. Still, I liked the Looney Tunes ripples throughout, not just in the gags but in the story line and characters too. I have to wonder what my Mask self would be. Probably a rabid worm.

Very cute! I would have done this to see Panic! At the Disco in 2013.

I had fun!

This movie is not as good as Spy Kids

Steve Martin is the best part of this (besides Audrey II obviously). A good old fashioned fun time.

Glossed over or omitted lot of important plot points from the book to make it more of an Oscar bait picture (successfully of course; it damn near swept the Oscars that year). The acting from Nicholson, Dourif, Fletcher, etc is great but the story misses a lot of the discomfort and evil Nurse Ratched inflicts upon the ward and the sheer helplessness that radiates from each patient. Entertaining but left a lot to be desired.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

As both a Danohead and a Cusackhead, I enjoyed their respective performances. And as a Wilsonhead, I appreciate the effort they took to show just how much Brian was taken advantage of in his life. The movie itself was eh, and the characters were not necessarily fleshed out as much as they could be in a two hour movie, but I’ll take any excuse to listen to Pet Sounds.

Tobey Maguire has been typecast as a guy who runs around going “woo!” and jumping everywhere. And I love that for him!