Raising the Dude

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2004)

This is an 'Arizona' update and, unlike its predecessor, I love it!
This is your only spoiler warning...
--Unlike 'Fight Club', where the narrator imagines his alter ego, the narrator is in the imagination of the hero. How clever is that?
--We get the prerequisite dream sequence mixed with reality. Surreal fantasy is bliss in their book (and mine), but Scott still one-ups them.
--Again, the rich are the targets for our protagonists. Here we have more fun than simple baby-snatching.
--The levels of detail, this is a pardoy after all, are richer this time. No, I'm not talking about writing a 69 cent check for milk. Compare the concepts behind the Gulf War to the objective of bowling, Walter was right.
The acting, as usual in a Coen film, is a mix of stereotype and reality. Goodman and Stormare are stereotypes. Moore, Bridges and Buscemi act. This was when the Coens were reaching their creative and artistic climax. Watch this with 'O Brother' to see them at their max before the intellectual collapse. How else do you explain 'Ladykillers' and 'Intolerable?' Oh well, it happened to Coppola.
Final Analysis = = Learn from this...