Worth seeing

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2003)

Warning: Slight spoilers, just one-liner descriptions of scenes in the movie that might be funnier if you haven't read this, but no revelation of any major elements.
While I wouldn't call this film a metaphysical analysis of identity, it does raise a few interesting questions about the nature of individual humans as mortals. That is coincidental, however, to the humor that abounds in a world where old people can live forever by hopping from brain to brain of young people. There are a great number of memorable scenes, including the always hilarious falls into the ditch, Cameron Diaz locked in her monkey's cage, and Malkovich's monumental switch from actor to puppeteer are some of them. The dialogue is also funny. One criticism is that once a viewer gets over the initial weirdness of the idea, the plot sort of falls out as a result. Many loops are thrown in terms of explanation of the original idea, but not so much as changes in the plot itself. Not as philosophical as one might hope, but it takes a funny idea and makes it better. 7/10