This is supposed to be a comedy, but it's not easy to laugh at the dire situation that surrounds this innocent girl.
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12/15/06
Tideland (2006)
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Reviews Counted:70
Fresh:19
Rotten:51
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Tideland is a disturbing, and mostly unwatchable effort from Terry Gilliam.
Theatrical Release:11-08-2006
Synopsis: Terry Gilliam, the director of such fantasies as TIME BANDITS, BRAZIL, and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, tells a very different kind of story in TIDELAND. Based on the novel by Mitch Cullin... [More]
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Terry Gilliam
Reviews for Tideland
As unwatchable as a train wreck.
12/12/06
"Tideland" is frustrating for the way it refuses to coalesce. You watch the film feeling abused and exploited, never knowing whether there's a bottom to this rabbit hole.
11/16/06
Tideland is flawed but it's still a must-see for anyone who considers themselves a fan of Gilliam.
11/12/06
Honest, unflinching and worthy of reappraisal.
11/03/06
When the little girl tells her decapititated doll, 'It's not just a bad dream,' she is right. It's just a bad movie.
11/02/06
The literal train wreck that caps the film is an apt metaphor for this hallucinatory fiasco.
11/02/06
Well, I'm Chris Hewitt, and I have a confession to make: I hated this film.
11/02/06
Horrendous and terrible and borderline unwatchable -- the most depressing film by a major filmmaker in recent memory.
11/01/06
Ugly, disturbing, and misguided mess.
10/30/06
Perhaps once we leave these squeamish times, Tideland will emerge like one of Welles' later films as a misunderstood classic.
10/27/06
Pointless and an excruciating bore.
10/27/06
The movie itself feels like an overstuffed burrito: Nicola Pecorini's cinematography has verve but no visual sense, and the film's self-important pace turns deadening over the long haul.
10/27/06
Becomes an excruciating exercise in gothic excess and progressively more disgusting imagery.
10/26/06
When Jeliza-Rose announces in the first scene, 'Today, we're all going on a great trip!', know that it's to the center of an emotional black hole.
10/26/06
A diary of pain and a chronicle of the armour of mythology an imaginative mind expels to salve it away.
10/23/06
A triumph of costuming and production design over plot, theme and main characters.
10/20/06
It's yet another example of the undeniably imaginative filmmaker (Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys) frittering away a movie with ugly visuals and even more unpleasant behavior.
10/20/06
The film drags in the middle and feels excruciatingly slow and repetitive in the final stretch.
10/20/06
Tideland's unmodulated frenzy has the effect of a prolonged shriek, too high and shrill for individual words to make themselves heard.
10/19/06
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