Solid, big fun with the Coen Brothers. Best watched in English.

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2015)

Solid, big fun with the Coen Brothers. Best watched in English.
The movie of course can not keep up entirely with other "serious" Coen movies, but is a solid, entertaining comedy, IMO way better than the other Coen comedy "Intolerable Cruelty".
The fun and the interesting part of the movie IMO is the presence of at least 3 big shots of Hollywood, Clooney, Pitt and Malkovich. All of them playing the roles of naives, fools, and lightly retarded guys. While we already know this role of McDormand in other Coen movies, there are not many comparable roles of these 3. In this regard, Brad Pitt does the best (or most convincing) acting job here IMO, Malkovich is also great, while Clooney tends to overact the role of the simpleton a bit, I think. Still, very enjoyable to see big names acting as fools, it's one of the inherent qualities of the movie.
You'll never see Pitt dying in a funnier way, and you'll learn something about Schwinn bikes.
Hint for "foreigners": watch it in English if possible, for example in German the movie loses much due to the inappropriate ("political correct") translation.