Lavish Looking Remake

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2013)

I saw "The Great Gatsby", starring Leonardo DiCaprio-This Boy's Life, Growing Pains-t.v., Tobey Maguire-The Spider-Man movies, This Boy's Life, Carey Mulligan-Drive, Public Enemies and Joel Edgerton-Zero Dark Thirty, Smokin' Aces.
This is about the second or third remake of the book written by F. Scott Fetzgerald. It takes place in the 1920's and revolves around the rich lifestyles of 2 men, Leonardo and Joel. Tobey is a would be writer and stock broker, a good job to have in the 1920's and he narrates the movie. Tobey lives next door to Leonardo/Gatsby and becomes friends. Carey is Tobey's cousin and is married to Joel. Leonardo has a past with Carey and wants to continue it, but it's kind of hard, with her being married to Joel and all. Tobey has a past with Joel, they went to school together, but Joel is now a womanizer that openly cheats on Carey. The look of the movie is authentic except for one thing; the music. Most of it is alright but there are touches of rap mixed in, compliments of Jay-Z, and you know how I just love rap. It's rated "PG-13" for sexual content-but no nudity and language and has a running time of 2 hours & 23 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD but it would be alright as a rental.