A curious waste of time (spoilers )

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2008)

The only thing curious about this move is how many thousands things there are to do that are a better use of your time than watching this movie.
I read the story many years ago and was interested in how this might be translated to to screen. From the point of view of the special effects, it was an impressive movie. If only they'd spent as much time on the actual script this might have been quite a movie.
This movie is boring. It's boring because of the clockwork way the material is handled, and it's boring because it is way way way too long. There are a few twists in the story, that anyone over the age of 8 should see miles away.
This movie is icky. (ok, it's a chick flick). The relationships are handled in a sickeningly sweet way and very little is done to create any truly meaningful characters.
spoiler ----spoiler The characters are stupid. They apparently can't add or subtract, otherwise both the main characters would have realized that there was no reason for Benjamin Button to run away. He would have been an adult all through his daughter's childhood.
Spoiler end.
All in all, I'm sorry I wasted my three hours watching this movie. Rent it and do the cross word puzzle while occasionally glancing up at the screen, you'll enjoy it a lot more than you would watching it in the theater.