The Complicated Bill Murray

Rating: 3/10 (21 February 2004)

Am I the only one who liked Bill Murray more when he was on Saturday Night Live? He has gone from being the common man, the New York Post kinda guy-- to becoming the New York Times slickster. That is, he's become sly and ironic and too smart whereas he used to be just plain old simple and funny and stupidly profound and streetwise and sweet and touching and sensationalistic. I know it's a lost cause, but please- Wes Anderson/Sofia Coppola/Spike Jonze and all you neo-hip-style over substance-self concious- societally knowing-timely-ironic-clever-jd salinger stealing-bannana republic commercial making directors-- Stay away from the other great American simpletons that Murray once was. Stay away from all the things that are simple and real. Because inevitably you'll mess them up and undermine them and complicate them.