The Illusionist and The Mike - Hello!

Rating: 6/10 (9 September 2006)

This interesting, well acted, beautiful with-a-twist feast was surprising. Surprising too was the number of times the modern mikes would drop into the scene from out of the sky. From mid-way through the film through the remainder of the film, we had several (too many to count) scenes with Mr. Mike. First it was fuzzy mike and then it was striped mike and then it was black mike. Our movie audience went from giggling at Mr. Mike, laughing at it and then exasperated with it. How come no one has mentioned the stupidity of the mike being in these scenes? How could they release this film? Not because the story - which was very engaging - but because they released it without editing out the idiotic extra character. Gosh, I can't tell you how much of the film's dialog I missed because of the dumb and dumber mikes!