Stylish, but boring and pretentious

Rating: 4/10 (23 October 2015)

I can't understand why so many good reviews.
Certainly the movie is visually appealing, but that is about it. The story is all over the place. Now, in a way that is part of the premise, since the movie is about how random details can completely change a life, and shows several of those possible life branches. I get that, but the different branches of Nemo's lives are not particularly interesting. The characters actions are pretty banal or unexplained, and sometimes just plain silly. Also, there is no attempt at somehow contrasting those different branches in an interesting way.
The movie tries to seem deep without being so. It sometimes shows you a long shot of a clock, as if saying to you: "see, time! Time! Isn't that deep?". No, not particularly.
At some point it shows how an unemployed Brazilian boiling an egg can cause rain two months later and change Nemo's life. It then goes over the type of overused sequence of trivial details in a chain of events: the egg boiling, the steam going through a pipe and up the sky, etc, etc. This has been done so many times in so many movies... It is not boggling my mind! The movie has many such sequences.
It does not help that it is so long: 2h 20min. I made an effort and went all the way to 1h 40min, but just could not go on anymore.