Laugh Out Loud Funny

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2019)

I've never reviewed anything in my life but reading through some of these reviews got me feeling like these folks must be part of the "family". This was the worst movie I have ever seen. All these 10/10 ratings...are you kidding me?! These people need therapy. Midsommar is painstakingly slow...without any payoff. And I wouldn't have minded if someone would have tried, at all, to develop and make me feel anything for these obnoxious characters. There are no surprises. Nothing new. You'll have most of the movie figured out in the first few minutes. But a lot of it makes no sense. It's almost as if these weird noises and scenarios going on in the background are just there to distract you from the terrible acting. Florence Plugh is just an adult toddler in this. And I'm pretty sure a team of high school drama students did the practical effects. All that budget and not one person thought, "Should we use real flowers? They're supposed to be picking them but they are so obviously fake." Or "Shouldn't the dead bear remotely resemble the bear when it was alive?" And how is anyone is supposed to accept the fact that when you're 72 you "give" your life when throughout the entire movie there are at least a dozen people well over the age of 72. It's just stupid.
Even if you cut out all of the fluff, to any common sense viewer, it would still look like a college project made with homemade effects. Some parts weren't meant to be but they were hilarious. Hilariously bad. Like a full leg sticking up out of the garden. Seriously?
I also think it's offensive to anyone who is bipolar and had ever suffered loss in their lives. Not everyone grieves in the same way but most people don't join cult. This movie is not a metaphor for grief or the end of a relationship. It's about a group of idiot "visitors" that don't ask any common sense questions and a psychotic "family" that murders people for whatever insane reason their purposefully inbred prophet dictates. It's not about culture or belief systems so I don't understand why some viewers would try to justify murder. It's murder. The characters died terrible deaths. Just like this script should have.