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Movie Review: Stranger Than Fiction
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| Movie Review: Stranger Than Fiction |
| 11.20.06 (2:05 pm) [edit] |
Now Playing in North American Cinemas
Rating: 2.5/5
Starring: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Queen Latifah
Okay, I'll admit to something that I have been fighting since the late 1990's. I (heart) Will Ferrell. OH GOD! What is happening to me? I was introduced to the big and hairy lug on Saturday Night Live and since then I have had a love-hate relationship with him which turned to just love after my first (of many screenings) of Elf. Will Ferrell knows how to play lovable oafs. He also knows how to play put-upon and unfortunate. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy proved that Ferrell knows how to play self-obsessed, arrogant pricks with a heart of G.O.L.D.
It is upon Will Ferrell's broad and hairy shoulders that the success of this film rests. This film succeeds in every scene with Ferrell, whether he is paired with the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal or some random extra. In the scenes without him, mostly those featuring a dowdy Emma Thompson (doing her best imitation of friend Hugh Laurie's House) and Queen Latifah (doing her best imitation of Morgan Freeman in An Unfinished Life, The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, The Sum of All Fears... or any film in which he plays "the black sage"), the film drags and becomes almost unbearable. Thompson's character seems somewhat suicidal and there are times in this film that you wish she'd just put us out of her misery.
Rather than just doing herself the final favour, Thompson's character, Kaye Eiffel (more like Kaye Awful), writes novels in which the main character always dies in some deeply ironic way. Unfortunately for Will Ferrell's Harold Crick, he appears to be caught in one of Eiffel's infernal novels of poetic but pathetic human demise. He also has the distinct displeasure of having Eiffel's running narration stuck in his head. Upon learning of his imminent death, Crick tries desperately to live the last days of his life without regret while trying to seek the source of his internal narrator.
It's a cute and quirky film, and if you can tolerate a shrill and annoying Emma Thompson, I say go for it!
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posted by: PiccadillyCommando (reply)
post date: 11.20.06 (1:12 pm)
"...if you can tolerate a shrill and annoying Emma Thompson..."
Says it all really!
Well, it's one for 'I'll see it when it eventually comes round on telly' category!
posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 11.20.06 (4:13 pm)
Reply to: PiccadillyCommando
Yeah, she really ruined the film for me. She never used to be such a pill.
posted by: arhiderrr (reply)
post date: 02.28.09 (4:24 am)
Nice article
posted by: arhiderrr (reply)
post date: 02.28.09 (12:15 pm)
Nice article
posted by: arhiderrr (reply)
post date: 02.28.09 (9:08 pm)
Nice article
posted by: arhiderrr (reply)
post date: 03.01.09 (4:58 am)
Nice article
posted by: arhiderrr (reply)
post date: 03.01.09 (12:52 pm)
Nice article
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