After its promising, hilarious setup, Cook's initial Kubrick-like smoothness quickly gives way to a ramshackle presentation with few follow-up ideas or jokes.
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03/22/07
Color Me Kubrick (2007)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:29
Rotten:28
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Colour Me Kubrick has a fascinating premise, but provides little insight into Kubrick and the man who impersonated him.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: For months Alan Conway, a perfect stranger, passed himself off as one of the greatest film directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick. Conway knew nothing of the filmmaker or his films, but this... [More]
Starring: John Malkovich, Honor Blackman, Bryan Dick, Leslie Phillips
Director: Brian W. Cook
Reviews for Color Me Kubrick
a playground for madman Malkovich to be set loose in.
03/22/07
... entertaining if not exactly enlightening.
03/22/07
It's simply not a movie, not as it stands. It's a five-minute demo reel stretched to feature length.
09/27/07
The movie never convinces us there's anyone there to expose, though, and Malkovich flits from scene to scene without ever anchoring Conway in a lasting reality.
03/23/07
There is a giddy pleasure in watching people, great and small, most who should know much better, fall over themselves to be film-flammed
03/21/07
Any picture featuring a sped-up version of the "William Tell Overture" is so drunk on its own whimsy that it most likely sucks with a dedicated vigour.
04/26/07
Malkovich's playing to the rafters is certainly amusing, but the film can't shake off its Borscht Belt by way of Britain lineage and its failure to dig beneath the surface.
03/17/07
Fans of John Malkovich will most appreciate Colour Me Kubrick. For the rest, this is an amusing little blip on the movie radar screen.
03/27/07
Without much insight into the self-dramatizing enigma of Conway, nor any representation of the solitary auteur he impersonated, the film becomes a repetitive series of small-scale con games played on cabdrivers, bar owners and wannabe stars.
03/22/07
Colour Me Kubrick earns a place on the shelf where all the oddballs reside, defying us to come up with reasons to justify their idiosyncratic existences -- and perhaps not caring whether we do.
03/23/07
The movie is endless even at less than 90 minutes.
03/20/07
A little bit like a coloring book -- flip the pages and each is pretty much like the one before, escalating variations on the same scam, with Malkovich filling in the cartoonish shadings, and occasionally going way outside the lines.
04/01/07
A ludicrous, but entertaining look at a real-life Kubrick impersonator, played with over-the-top glee by Malkovich.
03/22/07
The film reveals, rather delectably, how potent the power of suggestion can be in a world gone madly groupie.
03/21/07
Scarcely an insightful biographical portrait, Color Me Kubrick is still interesting, perhaps even intimidating, as a study of the way fandom can so readily be turned against itself.
03/23/07
Top CriticIf you're a fan of Stanley Kubrick or just a die-hard film buff, you may find this weird, semi-documentary an absolute hoot. I did.
03/24/07
But cleverness aside, the film is so slight it practically vanishes before your eyes.
03/22/07
Best appreciated as a rather amusing farce called The John Malkovich Show, the movie's every scene is anchored, then stolen, by the commanding thespian's Alan act.
05/01/06
It’s an impressive moving wax museum, certainly, but even metatextual follies eventually need a pulse.
03/31/07
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