Crap

Rating: 1/10 (14 April 2008)

Smug, pretentious, overblown garbage, in the guise of 'sticking it to' bourgeois American values. This is a film that purports to satirize middle-American, superficial lifestyles and values. And it's perfectly calibrated for those very people it means to target to see it, then leave their shopping mall multiplex and marvel "Ooohh, wasn't that smart and edgy and stylishly unusual? What a bold film, ooohhh." You wanna' see a movie that REALLY does that, AND has the courage of its convictions? It's called "Happiness." Even "Ordinary People" did it better -- just straight, without all the "look at me, look at my cleverness!" flourishes and self-indulgences (director and screenwriter both).