This cuckoo laid an egg

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 1999)

Jack Nicholson is crazy. Or, maybe he's not crazy; maybe it's the SYSTEM that's crazy. Yeah, that's the ticket. The SYSTEM has gone crazy and Jack's the only sane guy and of course he's been thrown in the loony bin because he likes to CHALLENGE THE SYSTEM. And then Jack meets Nurse Ratched ("Wretched," get it?), an RN who graduated from the Joseph Mengele School of Nazi Nursing with a Master's Degree in mean. Boy is she ever mean to Jack and all the other inmates who look loony but aren't REALLY. And then Jack takes all the inmates on a school bus ride which is fun and then he takes them on a fishing trip which is even more fun. And then Jack treats everybody to an orgy with prostitutes which is the most fun of all! And the next morning the Stuttering Boy awakens to discover he's neither a virgin nor a stutterer. It's a MIRACLE! But then Nurse Ratched is mean to him. Oooh, naughty Nurse Ratched. (She's so darn cute when she's mean.) And that makes Jack angry so he tries to strangle Nurse Ratched (YEAHHHHH!!) but he doesn't (AWWWWÂ…). And then Nurse Ratched takes MEAN to an all-new level. What a GREAT story that is! And so full of DEEP MEANINGS too! (As irony often doesn't translate very well onto the Internet, let me be clear. I hated this film from beginning to end. I cannot be entertained and I do not wish to be enlightened by experiencing man's inhumanity to man.)