yuck

Rating: Null/10 (5 September 2002)

i was dissapointed to see how many positive remarks there were regarding this movie. donnie darko is mostly just poorly writen, but that's hard to ignore in film. i can possibly see how the high school young, and people with no ability to be objective might like this for it's basic hollywood entertainment, but it just didn't add up.
there were so many problems with the script! like what about the plane and the space travel idea: wouldn't his mom and sister have been sent through the portal, and not donnie?
**just to throw it in** drew barrymore's part was obvious: executive producer wants a role(enter pout) lets just stick her in there! she added nothing-but she rarely does.

basiclly, the whole thing seems to ride on the hope that the public won't try to put the puzzle together, and just accept it for visually entertaining--and it was visually entertaining, but that's all. and that would be ok if everyone took it as just that instead of tring to claim it's a great film (ahem, piece of art)...whatever.
watch it if you want to, it's got good parts...but you've been warned.(enter dungen theme music:dom-dom-douuummmmm)
i did however like his imaginary friend being a huge rabbit, i.e. harvey the giant pooka ;}