I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
Unfortunately, no one can be told what Huckabees is, you just have to see it for yourself... Indescribable, dizzy comedy-cum-Zen treatise is uneven and frustrating at times, but I would assume that has to be by design -- out of chaos comes order, the yin and the yang, that sort of thing. Likeable, lazy, off-putting and explosively funny, often all in the same scene; love it or hate it, we'll probably never see another like it. The committed ensemble cast helps (Wahlberg is especially good, and I happen to think that Watts is better here than she's been in anything since Mulholland Drive). It's not a great movie, but it is an ambitious one, and probably an important one too. I can respect that.
Grade: B
Unfortunately, no one can be told what Huckabees is, you just have to see it for yourself... Indescribable, dizzy comedy-cum-Zen treatise is uneven and frustrating at times, but I would assume that has to be by design -- out of chaos comes order, the yin and the yang, that sort of thing. Likeable, lazy, off-putting and explosively funny, often all in the same scene; love it or hate it, we'll probably never see another like it. The committed ensemble cast helps (Wahlberg is especially good, and I happen to think that Watts is better here than she's been in anything since Mulholland Drive). It's not a great movie, but it is an ambitious one, and probably an important one too. I can respect that.
Grade: B
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