Fluff, good fluff, but fluff none-the-less

Rating: 5/10 (27 January 2009)

We kept looking for something more. Yes, of course we liked it. We laughed -- not out loud but we did laugh.
To me it was more of a character study and yes I recommend it. Brad Pitt is at the top of the comedy gene pool, as is Frances and George. John was wonderful -- hell the entire cast was above and beyond. The directors/writers as always perfection.
Having said all of this, I just think the movie shifted gears from the moment dumb-dumb got shot. Again this is not a bad thing. It just became something more than a goofy comedy and so we tried to find what that "something more" was.
We never found it. We so wanted Tilda to get her comeuppance. Foul b*tch that she was. David and J.K. were wonderful also.
In the end we concluded that the movie purports that Americans are so self-absorbed, vain and self-centered that all we think about is what we think we are entitled to. And that amounts to four plastic surgeries --- which she gets, at the cost of death, government cover-ups and several lives destroyed.
Now think of this. Is this the quintessential WOMAN movie. Well, look at it. All the women get what they want and the men end up with nothing. I'm just saying.