Another reviewer said that this is not a comedy. Okay, fine. But neither is it a romance, or a thriller. (A drama can be pretty much anything, so the term doesn't really lend itself to meaningful categorization.) The only fair thing to say is that it's all of them wrapped in one. This movie is loaded with comedy and humor, but also conflict and tension, and, for whatever the term is worth, drama, of a thoroughly gripping variety.
Perhaps some of the hate for this film is based in the fact that it's such a roller coaster. People like their thrillers to be dark and gritty, and they like their comedies to be a light and airy. This film is all of the above. It covers such a gamut that I'm honestly stunned not only that they fit all of it into the hour and three quarters that they did, but especially that it genuinely felt like one movie and not a bunch of stuff mooshed into a deformed camel. It might be very particular and peculiar, but this is a very well made film. If you like stuff that straddles the edge of the box gyrating its thick posterior while blowing raspberries at genre lines, check this one out.
Perhaps some of the hate for this film is based in the fact that it's such a roller coaster. People like their thrillers to be dark and gritty, and they like their comedies to be a light and airy. This film is all of the above. It covers such a gamut that I'm honestly stunned not only that they fit all of it into the hour and three quarters that they did, but especially that it genuinely felt like one movie and not a bunch of stuff mooshed into a deformed camel. It might be very particular and peculiar, but this is a very well made film. If you like stuff that straddles the edge of the box gyrating its thick posterior while blowing raspberries at genre lines, check this one out.