We rented three movies for the Thanksgiving weekend: Mean Girls, Jersey Girl, and Ladykillers.
Mean Girls was a classic teen morality play.
Jersey Girl suffered some classic Kevin Smith clunkiness which kept it from being a standard charming-child/romantic comedy. George Carlin plays a totally straight role. Stephen Root has the wonderful role of stating the obvious, possibly the funniest part of the show. I caught part of Sweeny Todd a while back on PBS and was captivated, so I gotta give Mr. Smith props for trying to pique the viewers' interest into that show.
Irma P. Hall was almost perfectly believable as Marva Munson in Ladykillers. Unfortunately there wasn't much else there. Tom Hanks was either entirely unable to perform his role or he just phoned in his performance. Whether intentionally or not, he sucked a lot of the life out of this picture. Like Small Time Crooks I think there was a clever idea and the possibility of a decent picture here if the folks involved would have been younger and more desperate. The old hands project "nothing we haven't done before" directly to the audience.
Posted to Movies and TV at November 30, 2004 8:19 PMI really enjoy your movie reviews. Mom
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