Yikes!

Rating: 6/10 (10 October 2013)

One wonders what English Teachers across the Country are saying to their Students when confronted with the inevitable...So Miss. So and So what did you think of the new Movie? How do they side-step that one. Yikes!
It is quite Obvious that the Director made this Film for Today's Audience, packaging it with as much Razzle-Dazzle as possible filling the Screen and the Soundtrack to the Breaking Point of any Common Sense, and Oh Yea, lets throw in 3-D and Hip-Hop just because We can.
They've got Everything here to fill the Multiplexes. Current Number One Heartthrob DiCaprio, a Budget that could put a Man on the Moon, and the Jazz Age Setting where all that Decadence is on Display, and boy is it ever. At least in the First Half of the Film.
The Second slows down somewhat for some Breathing Room, but by then Everyone is Breathless beyond Recitation. The Melodrama unfolds and the Tragic Gatsby is Exposed and considering what came before it all seems rather Pale and Pathetic and the rest of the Movie kind of Sputters and Rolls to a stop. There isn't much Today's Modern Sensibilities haven't encountered and the Scope of Gatsby's 1920's Life will probably seem rather the Stuff of Teary Novels.
Maybe that's why all the insertion of what is Hip Today layers this thing and the coats of the new Millennium are so glaring. The Classic Story needed some kind of new Paint Job, or at least that was the thinking from these Filmmakers. Yikes!