Russell is obviously working out his considerable angst ... but in an admirable attempt to opt for a manic, stream of consciousness energy, he ends up annoying his audience instead.
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10/15/04
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
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Reviews Counted:175
Fresh:107
Rotten:68
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), head of the Open Spaces Coalition, has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences the meaning of which escapes him. With the help of two Existential... [More]
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law
Director: David O. Russell
Reviews for I Heart Huckabees
So willfully, smugly eccentric that it grows tiresome rather quickly.
10/15/04
Adventurous, challenging and filled with small moments of delight. Unfortunately, it's also self-indulgent, repetitious and the sort of movie you wish was great but isn't.
10/15/04
You have to give everyone involved credit for mounting a joke that, if not of Dadaist proportions, should prove pretty funny to everyone except the rubes who wander in expecting to see something they can comprehend.
10/15/04
In a way, the movie is about everything and nothing, but its real problem has less to do with its philosophical ambition than with its scattered, half-digested musings.
10/15/04
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, meaningful world, indeed.
10/15/04
Russell is unable to transform his psychologically warped story into a shape that can be enjoyed.
10/14/04
It is difficult for me to describe how sweet and buoyant I found the film, despite its seemingly excessive stylization.
10/14/04
Along with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it's the most playful, intelligent and original comedy of the year.
10/14/04
For a film about meaning, this long-winded ode to existential meandering makes little sense leaving most of us viewers distanced and cold.**
10/13/04
An ambitious but disjointed spoof of New Age quirks and quacks that attempts to simultaneously put down and lift up. But, despite the A-list ensemble, it accomplishes neither.
10/12/04
A chaotic, shambling satire.
10/12/04
It’s a comfortable sort of confusion that Russell has brought to the table. Good luck figuring out exactly what the point is.
10/12/04
If introductory philosophy was this much fun, enrolment would go through the roof.
10/12/04
Think of it less as a deconstruction of philosophies, and more like an episode of Last Comic Standing where the jokesters are Nietzsche, Heidegger and Kant.
10/11/04
Horrible torture. David O. Russell hates us.
10/11/04
...the result is a sometimes amusing, mild mannered philosophical comedy that is, in the end, shallow.
10/11/04
despite [a] muddled attempt at some kind of existential relevance, I Heart Huckabees works on an absurdist comedy level
10/10/04
Russell should probably be applauded for trying something different, but I Heart Huckabees often seems weird for weirdness' sake.
10/10/04
Will likely divide audiences between those who find its deliberately abstruse discombobulation amusing & to the point, and those who find it just abstruse & discombobulated.
10/09/04
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