A successful comedy, unfortunately by accident

Rating: 3/10 (27 October 2002)

I thought this was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, if only because of its absurdity. Stanley Kubrick showed, as in 2001, that he can take a great story, and basically ruin it. Critics applaud everything he does, only, in my opinion, out of respect for such magnificent efforts as Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket. He added so much pointless stuff to this story, that I had to stop taking it seriously. I'd heard such great things about this movie, and I have applied my Taxi Driver theorem, named after Scorcese's Taxi Driver. If a great director does a movie, and it's extremely odd, and has a lot of stupid, quirky, just plain weird things in it, the critics will applaud it's genius, out of a fear of being called stupid. The critics were probably afraid to admit that they just plain don't understand the movie, so they praised it in a way calling anyone who doesn't understand it stupid. Unfortunately, no one will admit when a great director makes a mistake, so this has gone down as one of the greatest horrors of all time. I, personally, couldn't stop laughing the entire time.