If I wouldn't have walked by the Redbox that day...

Rating: 1/10 (13 May 2009)

There have been at least three occasions, when at the end of a movie, my wife and I will look at each other with an amazed disappointment. "The Butterfly Effect", "City of Angels", and now "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Granted, we enjoy Pitt movies and consider him extremely dynamic, but the story here failed to hold to its own. And there was no return on investment. As expressed by well-spoken critics, there were way too many Jump-the-Shark moments that tended to insult what little intelligence it required to watch such a film.
Intertwined with the impending threat of a Hurricane (to pay homage and toss a few coins toward the Army Corp of Engineers) was an outlandish and entirely uninviting display of single-dimensional character-building. No fault of the collaboration, just too great of an attempt to reinvent the wheel.