I hoped that the coffee contained large amounts of arsnick...

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2004)

Oh dear, what a waste!!!!
This film is simply a bunch of pretentious tosh. It's absolute rubbish. And more importantly, it's a complete waste of potential.
There is so much talent and potential in the artists involved. The Mollina-Coogan scene was one of the better efforts but didn't live up to what it could have been, the Waites-Iggy Pop vignette was so bad I could have cried (those two real life 'characters' in one scene thrown away, how did they do that?), the final line of which was agonising. Bill Murray was a beacon but only because he's quite an off-the-wall guy anyway.
Art? It is unpleasantly obvious, unsubtle at every turn, I would say self-consciously cool except it isn't cool. It certainly is self-consciously trying to be cool. I would have walked out if it wasn't so entertainingly bad.
The only saving grace is the last scene which is actually hilarious and hauntingly tragically sad at the same time. That part, at least, is written, acted and filmed perfectly. As for the rest? What a waste.
I have no respect for a film which tries so hard to be respected, and yet simultaneously reverts to a base humour whereby the biggest gag was 'Jack shows Meg his Tesla Coil'. The mindless tittering of the audience made me mad. Having paid money to endure this drivel was worse an insult still.