Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The only thing I knew about this movie going in was that it was supposed to be a "very exaggerated" biopic.
I'm so glad I went in blind, because this is so much more than that. It's pretty much an anti-biopic with a single toe dipped into reality. I loved how seemingly dumb and smart it was simultaneously. I loved the acting and the casting. I loved the music, the story, and how it pretended to take itself seriously. Also one of my favourite endings to any movie I've ever seen. What a riot.
I think my favourite thing about this movie was how absolutely unpredictable it is. It spends the first half establishing this almost-stereotypical setup of a stripper marrying a rich foreigner, but instead of some hokey adventure movie or a violent gangster movie, it just turns into a loud awkward domestic dispute that gets progressively sloppier and more chaotic.
All that being said, this movie kind of has it all. It's inherently interesting, both surprisingly hilarious and profoundly sad, also sexy…