The Pursuit of Cheesiness

Rating: 1/10 (26 January 2007)

When I first saw the trailer for this film I thought to myself that it had a lot of promise. I was totally disappointed because after watching this crap they should change the title to the Pursuit of Money because that is what it really is. It hides behind a persona that it's a sensitive and touching look at a man's struggle to change his financial circumstances. It really is not. Will Smith is a terrible actor in the sense that he tries too hard to impress that he leaves the audience exactly with that. He's trying too hard. Casting his own son in the film takes it a notch lower. What is it with Hollywood and nepotism these days? Can't they find a good child actor not related to anybody in this movie? Its not that making a film about struggling to make money is bad. Its making a film about struggling to make money and making it look deep and life affirming now that's really bad. While watching this film I kept trying to find an inner meaning other than what was already the shallow plot. There isn't. In my opinion, they should just call a spade a spade. This film is like Wall street minus the sex and drugs. At least Wall street wasn't trying to hide under a veneer of being a "sensitive" film. It was brute and shallow and that made it a very powerful film. In the Pursuit of Happyiness it was just merely shallow.