funny travel

Rating: Null/10 (7 December 2006)

I'm just out of the theater near Sydney Australia. I came out of the theater with very mixed feelings about the movie. I had never been aware of this guy existence(character or actor) but usually I am open to most things. I certainly had quite a few laughs during the screening session. Just the same about half way through I really wanted to be somewhere else. My out-bringing (like my feelings)was quite mixed with a religious spell during my late teens with some relapse later on but somehow kept away from any during the second part of my life that is about three decades. I have rolled in the dirt many times and feel rather immune from it, yet something about this movie did not sound right. As the movie ran in Sydney perhaps for its fourth week the crowd on the day was reduced to 7 people in our session; this in my view did not foster the right atmosphere. We were 2 couples, my wife usually fairly straight, to my amazement had a reasonable good time; as for my mate, he had definitely a negative experience but a "10" for his wife of a totally different conviction (a passionate reader). So our conversation around our supper table following the screening was rather animated! Bakc home I got straight onto IMDb and read all those wonderful reviews and had to go through a few pages to see some negative feedback. No, I did not read 64 pages of reviews, but enough to see how divided people could be about this film. Many review seemed quite intelligent on both sides of the feelings. And I must say I was uncomfortable to situate myself in this debate. As some one said in one review "you "must" like this movie to be cool" or something to this effect. I must admit that today social issues demand a lot more examination as we live in an ever more mixing and moving population. Examination and willingness to accommodate each others despite very contradicting background and values. Therefore such confrontation of our feelings if we care to explore its implication may have very positive outcome. But the point here is to try to see beyond the impact of what we are dished out and that may be a thick layer of dirt over our eyes and mind to deal with! I did laugh I did get bored I did get nauseated I did talk about I don't want to rate it I do not regret to watch it I don't want to see it again I don't think it was a waste of my time Byt I don't want to recommend it to anyone And I don't think anyone cares whether I do or not. Pehaps I should use Voltaire's philosophy here. "I don't want to see this movie again, but I would do all I can for you to have the right to see it"! (Voltaire would have gone further!)