As a comedy it's hugely optimistic and as a drama it's wonderfully emotional and that we're afforded the opportunity to make the call for one or the other for ourselves makes this a very clever film.
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08/19/06
Lady in the Water (2006)
24 %
Reviews Counted: 203 Fresh: 48 Rotten:155 Average Rating: 4.2/10
Consensus:
A far-fetched story with little suspense and unconvincing scenarios, Lady In The Water feels contrived, pretentious, and rather silly.
Rated: PG
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Theatrical Release: 11-08-2006
Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan (THE SIXTH SENSE, THE VILLAGE) continues his mission to revive the ancient art of storytelling--which he has diagnosed as a dying art--melding aspects of the fantastic with the mundane, and bringing to life a mythology of his own concoction. Paul Giamatti (SIDEWAYS) is... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey Wright, Sarita Choudhury
Reviews
This pretentious, humourless (except for a joke-about-a-joke centring on the film critic) movie is breathtaking in its absurdity.
08/12/06
Top Critic
There are so many things wrong with Lady that there just isn't enough space to go into them here.
08/11/06
If you place a premium on original vision and creative risk, then there is much pleasure to be had watching a born storyteller juggle more balls than even he can carry.
08/11/06
Top Critic
Paul Giamatti is superb ... and his performance single-handedly rescues Lady in the Water from one star ignominy. Frankly, you'll marvel at his ability to keep a straight face as he delivers Shyamalan's pretentious dialogue.
08/10/06
What was [Shyamalan] thinking? This isn't just duff, it’s career-threatening catastrophic.
08/10/06
Top Critic
There are some laughs to be had, albeit not always in the right places. A resounding plop.
08/08/06
Top Critic
Beautifully made and thoroughly intriguing, but it feels made up as it goes along.
08/03/06
... to put it bluntly, badly paced and completely trivial, not to mention utterly juvenile.
07/04/08
What is most annoying about "Lady" is that no one ever considers the possibility that nothing magical is actually occurring.The film starts out silly and just gets sillier.
04/20/08
While I love where Night's head and heart are at, I think he tried to communicate them in a way that was clumsy, cumbersome, lacking in suspense and menace, and frankly, unexciting.
02/28/08
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01/15/08
Ignore the critics on this movie. Yeah, I am one. Which means I'm telling you to ignore me, too.
07/23/07
A director's love letter to himself, the martyred, fashionably-dressed messiah whose work may someday save the world if only we'd let it.
06/28/07
The film is a mess, a ramshackle affair. Its silliness cannot sustain itself.
04/25/07
We get it. We just don't want it. Because this Lady is the Showgirls of fantasy films.
02/07/07
High on talk-heavy exposition and low on actual scares and thrills . . .
12/28/06
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