This movie starts out feeling a bit like "Ghost World". And then, poof! While "Ghost World" is one of the best movies that I've seen in the past five years, this is one of the worst!
The so-called "pomo" material is fresh and beckons for a heckuva good treatment, but poof! Don Roos, he of the "Diabolique" debacle, lays a pretentious egg! The movie feels episodic and disorganized, which some people might call an indie movie feel. I call it "crap". Nothing is really said or accomplished, and there is no attempt to scrap the surface of any of the characters.
All of sudden, after good performances in "Casper", "The Addams Family", and particularly "Buffalo 66", poof! Christina Ricci can't act! Her one-note whine is insipid and dull. The rest of the acting is quite bad, as a matter of fact, it may be one of the worst ensemble acting performances I've ever seen! Lyle Lovett is miscast, if that is possible. Lisa Kudrow has the most potentially juicy part, but poof! She is too weak to pull it off!
This reminds me of the excellent director Henry Jaglom's most indulgently bad movies. I had to struggle to make it to the exceptionally unsatisfying ending.
And poof! It rates 2/10!
The so-called "pomo" material is fresh and beckons for a heckuva good treatment, but poof! Don Roos, he of the "Diabolique" debacle, lays a pretentious egg! The movie feels episodic and disorganized, which some people might call an indie movie feel. I call it "crap". Nothing is really said or accomplished, and there is no attempt to scrap the surface of any of the characters.
All of sudden, after good performances in "Casper", "The Addams Family", and particularly "Buffalo 66", poof! Christina Ricci can't act! Her one-note whine is insipid and dull. The rest of the acting is quite bad, as a matter of fact, it may be one of the worst ensemble acting performances I've ever seen! Lyle Lovett is miscast, if that is possible. Lisa Kudrow has the most potentially juicy part, but poof! She is too weak to pull it off!
This reminds me of the excellent director Henry Jaglom's most indulgently bad movies. I had to struggle to make it to the exceptionally unsatisfying ending.
And poof! It rates 2/10!