If comedy and drama are to be mixed, not that way please!

Rating: 2/10 (19 February 2000)

I'll stay brief on this, because I think this is an annoying movie. Not that I don't like its idea, because that's the only thing this film is bold in- what got me angry is the way it was done. The first half of it is comedy Leslie- Nielsen- style, read: nonsense. Entertaining?- yes; intelligent?- no. And worse, the second half is a terrible tearjerker. I wasn't at all moved by it as everybody told me I would. These two halves don't flow naturally into one another and you get the feeling you switched channels to watch a whole different and not even better film. The characters felt like in a comic-book and I do believe Benigni's character should have been more tragic than he was.