BEING VERY WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

Rating: Null/10 (16 April 2000)

And there you were, thinking that Hollywood never really steps out of the box these days and does something that isn't formula or dictated by preview audiences.
How then do you account for this, one of the damnedest things to be ever perpetrated on film.
Even the very title alerts you to the fact that you're about to board the train for Weirdsville.
With a cast featuring performers in surprising places (Diaz all but unrecognisable in a fright wig as the frumpish wife, Keener as the aggressive vamp), the greatest surprise in a film that constantly trades in them is Malkovich himself. (Hell, who else is going to play him?)
He's having a ball, playing a pompous actor who gets well and truly shaken up, especially when he goes through his own portal.
Confused? Don't be. Watch this film and, like the characters, find yourself taken to weird places you'd never thought you'd ever go to.