emperor has no clothes? try has no flesh, no skeleton, nothing, CRAP !!!

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2012)

OK let's assume whoever made this film never saw a great silent movie, ever. it's certainly possible.
BUT DIDN'T HE EVER SEE A GREAT BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE AT LEAST!!!?!?!?!?
JEEESH this movie looked like CRAP. low contrast black and white WHAT IS THE EXCUSE?!?!?!? HOW DID THEY GET AWAY WITH IT??? THIS MOVIE LOOKS LIKE GARBAGE from the DP standpoint.
As for the story... good god, let us not even go thereabouts, shall we? PATHETIC!!!
The male star was HOT, PHOTOGENIC and a GOOD ACTOR. Well great, but that's ALL that can be said for this film...oh wait, then there's also the jack Russell terrier who certainly did his bit admirably, as hokey poky as they may have been and certainly were. Comedy, they were not. Oh lord, what contempt I felt for the audience laughing at the "funny bits" in such a forced way. Why do audiences cooperate in this fashion? To show that they "get it" I suppose... ts ts ts. Well maybe they deserve this film. Comedy "HAHAHAs" as for example: the wife blacked out the teeth on the actor's head shot on the back of which she'd written a farewell note. OH YEAH FUNNY STUFF!! croak! vomit retch...
OTHERWISE 0 out of 10... "the artist" only because... you know...
WE LIVE IN SUCH A DEGRADED ARSED WORLD that a barely competent and otherwise unexceptional film such as this is trumpeted as being ANY KIND of Achievement WHAT-SO-EVER... and ... what can you say, Calgon take me away? I don't think bath salts will remedy the tragedy of our times.
THE PREVIEW IS VERY VERY V E R Y MISLEADING, rarely in recent memory has a preview so ... misrepresented the film for which it stands. Evidently, you see, by the end of the shooting of this film they learned to do high contrast B&W and the dance sequences that make up some 5 minutes concluding 2 lackadaisical hours is actually fun to watch!
A RECOMMENDATION FOR SOMETHING A CUT ABOVE IN THE SAME VEIN: IF YOU WANNA SEE A NICE ART FILM BASED IN THE SILENT ERA check out the one movie from a director I otherwise loathe, Wim Wenders' "A TRICK OF THE LIGHT" starring Udo Kier, playing completely against type in an adorable role as one of two German pioneers whose motion picture format inventions were eclipsed by the work of the Lumieres. "A TRICK OF THE LIGHT" is a masterpiece which will leave you with a grin plastered on your face and a light shining out of your eyes... of course it never got any wide release and is today completely forgotten.
WEINSTEINS, PLEASE TAKE NOTE: next time take the damn footage to ME and my MAC I will make it look A LOT BETTER NOT SO CRAPPY!!! OK? I won't charge much. I'll do it not for the love of art for the hatred of its opposite. Maybe you don't even want to pay, just get final cut pro, and do it yourself. But by god, don't release another celluloid abortion such as "The Artist".
SERIOUSLY.