Straight - Jacket (2004)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:10
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.4/10
Reviews for Straight - Jacket
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On film, things play as flatly as any failed soufflé. Full Review |
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 3/4 |
Until it tries to mean something, Straight-Jacket is an enjoyably manic little farce whose wit far exceeds its production budget. Full Review |
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2/4 |
At its best when it's sending up '50s-era Hollywood and it's at its worst when trying to make a serious point. Full Review |
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B- |
As satire, it is often deliciously barbed and catty, the jokes flying fast and furious ... but when it tries to make its points seriously, it immediately loses me. Full Review |
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Some of it is smart, much clever, most funny and all entertaining. Full Review |
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2/4 |
It's a shame, then, that Straight-Jacket turns dour and melodramatic ... The light-hearted fun seeps out of the movie, replaced by trite interludes of coming-out angst, McCarthy-era persecution and even gay-bashing. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The perkiness with a capital P, gorgeous set and great color can't completely salvage an occasionally strong cast and middling story (and don't forget a lousy, if literal, title). Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Movies can never again be so corny, campy and PC clumsy as some of the howlers of the 1950s and '60s. But Straight-Jacket has a spiffy and gay (both senses) time joining the party. Full Review |
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2/4 |
It has verve, color and energy, but there's something fundamentally bogus about it, and whenever it takes a turn into seriousness, entire moments fall apart. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Day's pyrotechnic dialogue and instinctive comic timing make Straight-Jacket a delight. Full Review |
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A fey and frisky farce with a fabulous fashion sense. Full Review |
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Wastes its promising premise with a wavering tone that veers uneasily between camp humor and, pardon the expression, straightness. Full Review |
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1/5 |
This featherweight spoof of closeted, Red-baiting Hollywood in the mid-1950's is played as such an exaggerated cartoon that its political outrage is dissipated by its stridency.
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2.5/5 |
Though its heart is in the right place, everything gets tangled up in the film's lunacy. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Save your money and rent one of those old Hudson-Doris Day comedies instead. Full Review |
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