Let the good times bowl!

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2007)

The Coen brothers reached what may have been their zaniest with "The Big Lebowski", about stoner Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) getting mistaken for a tycoon (David Huddleston), leading to complete wackiness; needless to say, the wacky factor dominates. Along with Jeff, there's his slacker friends: the motormouth Walter (John Goodman) and the loopy Donny (Steve Buscemi). As for the side characters, I liked Maude's (Julianne Moore) remark about conception, and the narrator's (Sam Elliott) note about Saddam Hussein. It's just a great, hilarious, even humanizing movie. Also starring are John Turturro as a sex offender, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a servant. FYI, when John Goodman said all that stuff about Judaism, you may have thought that it was total nonsense given his character, but it was all totally accurate.
To think: John Goodman starred in four movies within two months. Of the ones that I saw, this one was great, "Fallen" was obviously ripped off of Wes Craven's "Shocker", and I must have been the only person who liked "Blues Brothers 2000".
PS: did you notice that the date on the check was September 11, 1991? Hmm...