Fun Movie

Rating: 8/10 (12 September 2008)

Saw this with my 50-year-old mom and it had us both laughing. Took a while to get started but once the plot got going, the movie's tongue-in-cheek humor had the theater splitting a gut. Brad Pitt was the most memorable character in the movie, stole every scene he was in - I just wish there were more of them! George Clooney could have done more with his character. He seemed to play a rather flat cheating husband, without really giving us his motivation. Malkovich was his typical brilliant self, and I found myself feeling sorry for him, until the end of the film of course. The Coen Brothers' ability to move between a dark movie like "No Country..." to a smart, funny movie like this says a lot about their skill as filmmakers, and is the reason why people will go see their movies no matter the genre. They're guaranteed winners.