Incredible comedy set in a bizarro universe inhabited by robotic characters

Rating: 2/10 (1 July 2016)

Lobster fails as a film because it is burdened with far too many incredible features to make the viewer accept the reality of the bizarro world it exists in. It begins with the totally unexplained premise that an alternative universe exists in which single people are required to find a mate within 45 days or face being turned into an animal and goes down from there. For example, the primary means of attracting a mate in this alternate universe is to have some sort of defect shared by a potential lover such as nose bleeding or the inability to feel compassion. Nor is it clear why virtually every character speaks in the same stilted pseudo-Stalinist manner, or why the hotel in which they must search for a mate seems to be lifted straight from 1930s Soviet Union . In short, all credibility seems to been jettisoned in an efforts to create some kind of black humor. But the artists seem to have forgotten the humor is only funny if it is found in a credible context. There is nothing credible about any of these robotic characters nor the weird illogical world in which they live. Therefore when the film reached its final idiotic and yet repulsive conclusion I felt nothing but relief that the torture was finally over.