Weird, wild, and wonderful

Rating: 7/10 (22 September 2007)

My boyfriend and I saw this last night, and upon exiting the theater, we prepared to share opinions. We just looked at each other and said "Well, that was...weird."
There are so many things Taymor did right, and so many that were just...weird.
Awesome - Color, imagery, the blending of theater and art Cameos Interpretations and use of songs Voices of the actors - Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy were fantastic! Visual Beatles/60's in-jokes and references
Lame - Vapid, vacant, clichéd dialog - Taymor should have ditched the 95% crappy dialog and just let the beautiful images and music speak for themselves. In many cases, the dialog detracted from the beauty of the film, and a lot of the jokes were just corny. Clichéd plot Some scenes seemed just weird for the sake of being weird - the Eddie Izzard scene (Mr Kite), while enjoyable in and of itself, seemed to come from left field.
Basically, this movie should be seen and enjoyed while under the influence of mind-altering substances.