The prerelease reviews were disastrous. One would think it was a monument to unintentional kitsch. But somehow the critical appraisal seems to be turning around somewhat--at the very least, people seem willing to indulge it as a kind of intriguing (or even magnificent) folly.
What do you think?
― amateurist, Sunday, 6 January 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i haven't seen it. maybe just based on the trailer, the idea of this movie completely repulsed me.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 January 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
It is a repulsive concept, or maybe the word insulting is more apt. But the film actually works to a surprising degree, and the bombastic visuals do have a genuinely compelling strangeness.
― amateurist, Sunday, 6 January 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
the eddie izzard giant puppet ringmaster stuff just looked brutal! how was it?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 January 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link