Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Hyper-kinetic and frenetic fun
Run Lola Run is Groundhog Day done right. What would you do if you only had twenty minutes to reset your life? This film is a modern-day faery-tale retelling, embellishing on the "three wishes" motif.Everyone the psychically-powerful Lola meets has their fates changed by the encounter. I think the tragicomic effects of Lola are absolutely hilarious!The movie is very fast-paced (duh!) with an excellent and oh!-so-appropriate soundtrack. Cartoons are interspersed with the live-action bits which are all covered over by driving techno tunes and dotted with freeze-frame photography, creating a perfect panacea for the tv generation. And let's face it, most of us belong to that generation, even if we've traded in our tellies for the Internet....