I Mean Hello What`s The Fuss ?

Rating: 6/10 (4 February 2003)

AMERICAN BEAUTY is good in some ways but its portrayal of American stereotypes is laughably unfunny . It`s almost a satire of a parody : Pathetic shmuck of a father , frigid wife , dope smoking lolita , a couple of gay neighbours . I mean hello ! MARRIED WITH CHILDREN and BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD not mention hundreds of grunge rock videos were doing this stuff ten times better years earlier . The only person to think this is a real slice of American pie is Osama Bin Laden . These American stereotypes really suck man . Whatever
The cinematography is beautiful as is the incidental music and the ending is very haunting but there is no way the film deserved the praise lavished on it , AMERICAN BEAUTY was standing at number 2 in the IMDb top 250 film rankings at one point ! Can you believe that man ? And there is a very simple explanation for the reason that it swept the oscars that year - 1999 was a very poor year for films . Go figure