Emperor's New Clothes

Rating: 2/10 (13 April 2008)

I was looking forward to seeing this film. I have enjoyed several of the other films by the Cohen brothers and was expecting something good. Obviously others were too and are too timid to say anything negative for fear of actually saying that the Emperor is in fact naked. I am disturbed to see that the American version of an art house film is to make each scene painfully slow and this follows in that vein. Then add to that dialogue not only spoken in a thick southern accent but make sure that all dialogue is mumbled. Actually being able to understand the dialogue may have helped but I reached the point that I just did not care.