To be avoided!

Rating: 3/10 (9 June 2010)

If you saw the preview of this film and enjoyed it: don't go. If you read the highly rated reviews on this web site and believe this is a film you should see: don't go. If intellectual thoughts blessed you out of teenage unpopularity and you are in serious need of incoherence fuel, unexploited interesting ideas and 2 ½ hours of loose ends to feel better about your artistic instincts: go!
Here are three reasons why this film is a failure and should only be considered as such:
1) The preview, summary and storyline make you believe this is a novel idea for a science fiction movie: a super centenarian lost in a futuristic society trying to figure out his reality. Oups, you get a film about a lame 30 years old guy conflicted about his love - linked to an absurd school boy story line fantasying on different ways to die and have sexual encounters (yes, and he's 9 years old...). The film should have been 80% in the future, 20% in the past. Unfortunately it's the reverse
2) Casting makes no sense. Since when do smashing teenage girls pay any attention to lame, skinny tormented boys? Get real. Ugly boys go out with ugly girls. And this goes on for the whole film. The primary schoolboy is fat and still gets the attention of three beautiful girls? The teenager looks like he should be sent to a boot camp and instead, he gets three smashing girls fall in love with him... And that mail-order-for-men's- clothing-model gets to marry the A-list top models? N'importe quoi. Did I forget to mention the ongoing sex scenes all over the place do get extremely exhausting?
3) Nice images and film scenes gets you going for 30 minutes but no more. It's like driving through death valley; it's fascinating for 20 minutes and then you get desperate to get out of it.
I can only see that I am passionately flabbergasted at people who say they enjoy this film. Ever heard of the emperor's new clothes fairy tale?