Thursday, May 19, 2005

Call Me When It's Over

Kicking and Screaming (2005)

Starring: Wilf Errel, Robert Duval
Directed by: Bob Dylan
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Other

Review
Hollywood has a name for films like Kicking and Screaming. They're called "high-concept" projects, and more likely than not they were "pitched" by some shark-suited twenty-two year old in a black spandex t-shirt and Angel Flight disco slacks his daddy left him when he moved to Arizona with his hot-pants secretary. He's calling in a favor, making a deal by combining a number of his clients in a project whose story that can be summarized in thirty seconds by a panda bear with finger paints. One question - why, Mr. Dylan? Why? Is this your revenge for the poor reception of Renaldo and Clara? You, sir, are bigger than the business. Please return to your seat until the airplane has come to a complete stop. That said, Wilf Errel is very good.

1 comment:

Greg (Van) Morrison said...

but isn't this a comment on almost every film made since Hollywood begat a first generation of Americans? albeit, the names and shapes of the egos differ, since days of