Hilarious

Rating: 10/10 (7 February 2016)

Funny. If you're familiar with the old 1940s studio days and the stable of stars, gofers and fixers, you'll find this hilarious. The Coen brothers do not aim for the center of the bell curve. The jerky review about "people walking with their feet" makes this point indeed. The jamoke writing this terrible review neither understood the film, the innsy humor or the historical tie-ins and took everything at face value. A lot of the audience did the same thing in No Country for Old Men, leaving the theater grumbling, "That was no ending."
Ah, but it was! And so is this film. American cinema is the great contribution to the art world and there is so much witty business and satire tied in this film that, like The Big Lebowski, I could watch it a dozen times and still come home with some witty little pearl.
OK. The Coen brothers approach Cinema-making as an art. Ethan Coen read Wittgenstein in college and you won't really appreciate the depth of their art unless you take the effort to see the integration of structuralism, neomodernism and the wit of the traditional Yiddish Theater which gave birth to the Marx and the Ritz brothers.
Don't take my word for it. Go see it for yourself. It's a good film.