The movie fails, I'm convinced, because it approaches the problem philosophically instead of psychologically.
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10/01/04
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
141 - 160 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
That you feel sympathy -- and a kinship -- to these searchers makes Huckabees something you'll gladly give your heart to.
10/01/04
The net effect is comparable to being trapped at a cocktail party with a pretentious drunk waxing philosophically ad nauseum.
10/01/04
Russell throws a lot of gags at the screen. Most of them hit and hit hard. Very funny stuff
10/01/04
While it's not Russell's best film -- that would be Three Kings -- it's certainly a memorably zany foray into uncharted cinematic territory.
10/01/04
while belly laughing and scratching your head at the same time, Huckabees will wash over you in the sweetest way, leaving you wholly satisfied with the outcome.
10/01/04
Amid the pandemonium there's a sense of truly rigorous soul-searching.
10/01/04
Russell wants us to care about these deeper meanings, but he can't lead us to see them for ourselves.
10/01/04
We're more in like with Huckabees, than in love.
10/01/04
Top CriticRussell continues to be able to write to Wahlberg's strengths, steering him towards a believable mania encompassing some of the movie’s best and most touching comedic moments.
10/01/04
The characters themselves barely exist, as do the supposedly deep thoughts the film is supposed to express.
10/01/04
If it doesn't drown you in a tidal wave of self-questioning (bordering on the batty), it will spin you around in the clowny vortex of an alternative filmmaking universe.
10/01/04
A playful metaphysical comedy that embraces the spiritual uplift of our connections with others amidst the muck of separations that characterize our world.
10/01/04
A brilliantly crafted comedy with multiple layers.
10/01/04
And yet, reasons, solutions, and strategies might be found, through and in connections. However random.
10/01/04
Literalizes the plot's existential underpinnings, consciously makes the subtext into the headline, and comes up with something unique and occasionally even coherent.
09/30/04
David O. Russell's comedy about private eyes looking into the unseen is unexpected, uneven and unpolished.
09/30/04
Even as we laugh, we're invited to consider the different approaches to [existentialism], which comes across as the flawed and funny but necessary human pursuit that it is.
09/30/04
Besides, where else can you see Jude Law vomit lightly into his hand and slurp it back up? Not in Sky Captain, lemme tell ya.
09/30/04
An encouraging push in the right direction for cinema which can be equally absorbing and entertaining.
09/30/04
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