There's ambition here, as well as a shaggy brilliance and a rare willingness on the part of a director to work out his questions in front of us, on film.
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10/08/04
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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Russell ... is so preoccupied with his western philosophy and eastern religion that he neglects the people in his film, and their thinness starts to grate after at time.
10/08/04
Theirs is too painfully forced, from the movie's thin premise to its ideas about what's funny: Hoffman in a Beatles wig?
10/08/04
With razor-sharp performances, zingy one-liners, broad slapstick humor and a message of sorts, there's enough to distract the viewer from becoming hopelessly lost in the lint-filled chaos that is the umbilicus.
10/08/04
It's like a screwball comedy written by the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.
10/08/04
I don't quite know what the point of it all was, but I do know that I enjoyed watching it.
10/08/04
Rich in quirky performances, amusing in its restless energy, it nevertheless frustrates with self-import and fishy enlightenment.
10/08/04
What you end up with is a mess of ideas and silly asides, but one that for some of us is an intelligent pleasure to wade through.
10/08/04
It's simultaneously tightly ordered and awfully cluttered.
10/08/04
I enjoyed every moment. Huckabees is both absurd and densely rich.
10/08/04
The movie is like an infernal machine that consumes all of the energy it generates, saving the last watt of current to turn itself off. It functions perfectly within its constraints, but it leaves the viewer out of the loop.
10/08/04
Top CriticThe trick of David O. Russell's splattery, overstuffed, and pretty wonderful Philosophy 101 farce is that it's also one of the sanest movies in ages.
10/08/04
...something akin to a fatalistic primal scream: We suffer, therefore we are.
10/08/04
The film roars with rapid-fire chatter and a great deal of heated arguing. It becomes abrasive and oppressive, and we yearn for a break.
10/08/04
Despite Russell’s self-indulgent streak, he earns credit for his ambition, for imbuing a stellar cast with his own bizarre spirit, and for pulling it off with wit and style.
10/08/04
To enjoy this movie, you just have to accept that fact that it doesn't always make sense. The moments of fun outweigh the times when they're trying too hard to be clever.
10/08/04
Russell ... has plenty of vision, intelligence and gall but he doesn't quite have the steady hand and comic flair that a masterpiece- wannabe such as this demands.
10/07/04
Simultaneously scattered and thought-provoking, as if writer/director David O. Russell gathered up all his loose ideas and decided to pack them tightly into one movie.
10/07/04
A head-scratcher.
10/07/04
A heady, messy piece of existential angst that works against all odds.
10/07/04
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