Only Lynch fans and psych. students will like this

Rating: Null/10 (7 January 2002)

I hadn't planned on seeing Mulholland Drive but my date and I stumbled into it this weekend when the movie we wanted to see was sold out.
I like to think of myself as a movie-goer with an above-average ability to appreciate the unusual. I guess I just don't appreciate the utter weirdness that is David Lynch. Some people love it. I don't.
Mulholland Drive makes you think of a TV series from the start. The cheezy music at the beginning gives you a clue. That's because Lynch wrote it for that purpose. Only nobody at the networks would touch it. So he strung it out into a movie.
The first half did have its moments of intrigue and humor. Betty is a Hollywood newcomer staying in her aunt's apartment. Landlady Coco (Ann Miller) is "gosh-darned nice" to her. Betty discovers amnesiac Rita (not her real name) in the apartment, dazed and confused from a car crash. While Betty sets her sights on finding fame, the pair try to find out Rita's true identity. When Rita opens the mysterious blue box, what little there was resembling a plot vanishes. The movie descends into Lynch "weirdisms" that I guess only the other IMDB reviewers can figure out. I couldn't.

I won't even try to describe it because I couldn't follow it at all. Maybe that makes me a mental midget but that's the truth. Since Lynch used a dwarf in "Twin Peaks", he'd probably love the comparison.
My date, fortunately, has since forgiven me. To quote him, only someone on heroin or some other halucinogenic drug could have truly appreciated Mulholland Drive. I cannot fathom why it received four Golden Globe nominations.
If you like movies with little resembling a plot, want to see Billy Ray Cyrus and Chad Everett in cameos, watch weird stuff happen and see a few lesbian love scenes, go see this movie. If you like being utterly confused, go see this movie. If you are a psychology major, take your classmates and as a group, try to figure some of it out.
If you value two hours of your life, don't go see this movie.