a cinematic experience

Rating: 1/10 (24 September 2007)

A monumental tableau of two-dimensional archetypes of bigots and good people, who when their surfaces are scratched, are transformed into good people and cowards. Set in L.A., a city of three hundred people, the cartoon-like characters so cleverly fit our stereotypes that we are instantly drawn into this land of make-believe and raise not the slightest objection when they methodically and with precision timing crash into one another at the most dramaturgically correct moments. Magical and eye-opening are the only ways to describe this cinematic experience, especially popular with high school students and Hollywood types who gape in shock at how racist and bigoted we truly are. Profound, moving and as believable as snow falling in L.A. on cue in the final scenes. As Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate) of Married ... with Children would say, "Kinda makes you think."