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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:29
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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
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.
Writer Anthony Frewin and director Brian Cook uses Conway's unlikely saga to mount an appreciative send-up of a certain style of gay extravagance, with John Malkovich having a field day as Conway.
A ludicrous, but entertaining look at a real-life Kubrick impersonator, played with over-the-top glee by Malkovich.
You can almost see the invective splattering all over the storyline. And Malkovich's camping and vamping, however perversely entertaining it is to behold, can neutralize the venom only so much.
A mean-spirited, trashy and intermittently funny film.
But cleverness aside, the film is so slight it practically vanishes before your eyes.
John Malkovich has one of the roles of his life, and he acts it up like a haughty gourmet who's just picked up a succulent treat.
Color Me Kubrick is like a nice, deep, clear cocktail of ammonia on the rocks: bracing, comic, astonishing, all of which hide its poison center.
John Malkovich gets to have a field day as the slovenly, unappealing Conway ...
There is a giddy pleasure in watching people, great and small, most who should know much better, fall over themselves to be film-flammed
The film reveals, rather delectably, how potent the power of suggestion can be in a world gone madly groupie.
A shapeless, low-grade comedy of flamboyance, giggling at Conway's histrionics and fishnet gloving.
The movie is endless even at less than 90 minutes.
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.
It's a truffle of a movie that may leave you feeling like you ate one too many purple chocolates, but secondary performances by Honor Blackman (remember the original "Avengers") and the ever-kooky Ken Russell add texture to the comic motif.
A doomed effort in satirizing society's obsession with celebrity, the film insists on a glib comedic tone that bars emotional investment in the tale; Malkovich gives a gutsy but ineffective performance as the travel agent who tried to pass as the director
put forth with...an unapologetic sense of depraved fun...
The filmmakers opted for a more episodic structure (with the occasional flashback) and I do have to say that by the end of the 90 minutes, I was growing weary of the shtick.
Droll, entertaining and often outright funny, this offbeat story has instant appeal.
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.
April 27, 2007:
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