I don't get the hype... It was okay.

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2009)

I remember hearing a lot of praise about this movie. The video store clerk acted as though it was one of the best movies ever made. It wasn't. Not by a long shot. Now perhaps I would have liked it better if I hadn't had expectations... I definitely would have had it not been for the annoying quasi-folk music and retro-seventies fashion and all the "art-film" pretense tossed in to every nook and cranny of the film. Hell, if it was just a comedy rather than a bad attempt at an art film it might have been much better... (the "it started with a chair" thing was pure pretentious pointlessness).
That said, it was a good story. And some of the lines were funny (usually the stepmother's). Of course most of the lines and the dialogue tossed in to give us "feeling" were nothing new. It's standard "indy film" stuff.
Oh how I long for the days when people can make a decent comedy without getting all "artsy."