Kinda torn - this one is fading a little in my memory, and it felt like a lot of little moments just didn’t land quite like they were supposed to, but also my theater wasn’t laughing and I know that makes a difference.
This is gonna go down as the new version of “did you know Starship Troopers came out before 9/11?” and it legitimately makes my chest tight.
I was initially kinda meh on “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One…
“Papá, I wanted to enjoy that ‘Annihilation’ movie you showed me, but I fell asleep for all the nuance and dreamed instead that I was playing Call of Duty. Papá can you make me another movie instead?”
Also I have so many thoughts about the musical choices in this movie just ask me about them when you see me. Fucking rancid, 1.5 includes an extra half for Anya.
Ok so my serious review before all the zingers is: it’s in the same ballpark as Southland Tales but less fun and more self-important to less of an end. So, 3.5.
Also there are some people saying “wow I can’t tell if it’s genius or not” no it’s definitely not. It’s bad. The sequence over the plan of the city and with the pop star are great and the rest is fairly cheap commentary completely obscured by incoherent nonsense. It’s…
“How’d the pitch meeting go honey?”
“Well I read them the closing monologue aloud:
Even after the flesh perishes, one can live in the hearts of others together with the feelings one has for them. Therefore, the story of love must be told many times so that the spirits of lovers may live forever.
And then I also told them about the girl named ‘Kung Fu’ who fights a telephone and then they were onboard!”
