Weird, slightly disturbing and just plain brilliant

Rating: Null/10 (15 April 2001)

I don't know if it was just me, but the 'feel' of this film reminded me a little of Edward Scissorhands - in that it was a modern fantasy that worked. The people who don't 'get' this film also fail to accept it as a fantasy - instead trying to shoehorn it into a comedy/psycological drama genre with some deep meaning.
Personally, I would loved to have been in the head of whomever had the audacity to pitch this concept to the suits at the studio; "Well, its about an unsuccessful puppeteer and his pet shop owner wife (Cameron Diaz, but really ugly) who find a secret doorway into the mind of John Malkovich - in an unusual office building...".