Ridiculous

Rating: 1/10 (13 July 2006)

I just saw how highly-rated this movie was on the IMDb top 250 films of all-time (I want to say it's in the top 30). This movie belongs in the bottom 100. However, I did see this movie only once, and nearly every scene was indelibly etched into my memory (I've thankfully forgotten a lot of it by now). That's because most of the scenes (including a misuse of shampoo in the shower) are completely over-the-top. The director should have cut out any dramatic pretenses and went with a Zucker-Abrams-Zucker comedy concept. Kevin Spacey's character is a jerk; he loses his job "unfairly," and immediately turns around and blackmails his boss. Then, he buys a sports car, smokes "100% safe weed," and hates his life as it is, until he re-discovers "puppy love." Good for him? Annette Benning's character is all right, the rest of the characters are stupid, and I forgot Allison Janney was in the movie. Question: in real life, is the "boy next door" who acts like a real creep actually the wisest person in the world who knows "what's it all about?" Oh, he's also the coolest drug dealer in town. Yikes! pass me some G-13. There really are only two good segments: Lester in the drive-up window, and Lester with the R-C car. That's about 3 1/2 minutes worth of movie. Were there plot twists? Maybe, but none of them created a story that I cared about.