Twisted, good but not for everyone.

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2016)

Like so many here I wasn't laughing out loud immediately. This movie is funny, though. It took me a while to realize the humor was completely Coen Brothers take on Hollywood, much like Barton Fink. The action sequences such as the horse-riding, synchronized swimming, dance scenes are good enough to be in the old movies. They were really good and took talent to perform in their own right. That is what makes them funny...right as you are about to fall in love with the scene it falls apart in a twisted, funny, nuanced way.
Burt Gurney...almost sounds like Bert and Ernie...(Channing Tatum) as a dancing communist was so weird that it couldn't be anything but a farce. Especially when he disappears in a Soviet submarine with his little dog while the ransom money sinks to the bottom of the ocean. The communist don't care because its about their cause. By the way, the dance scene was awesome but filled with sexual ambiguity.
Ralph Fiennes had a side to him I didn't know could be this funny. It was almost "Monty Python" as he was poking fun at the established, proper directors much the way they would do.
I could go on and on...
If you see this movie but don't like it one can under because it can be slow and somewhat difficult to follow at times. It is not slapstick. But if you are a fan of the old epic movies from the 40s, 50s, and 60s (Spartacus/Ben-Hur) then this movie is both a homage and spoof of them at the same time as only the Coens can do.