Little Black Dress

Got to see this movie and I just think it's a delight to watch. Maybe I was just in the mood for something like this. It had lots of eye candy (males and females represented in good measure - so very nice), a busy script, and one eye popping performance from Anna Choy as a tongue twisting TV star. I was so taken by The Little Black Dress as a very interesting twist on the kind of movie you normally expect to see Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant do standing on their heads. I don't think I can say I recognized too many of the names, but I don't know the Aussie movie scene that well. I recommend this movie because it's funny but not dumb. Watch it even if you're not in the mood!

I'm not sure what this movie was trying to say really. Is it about fashion? Reality Television? Corporate greed and the perennially power hungry aspect of masculinity? Or is it just a simple love story? The thing is it it comments on all these and always with the broadest of cynical strokes. I give it about a seven out of ten because it looks good and because cynical always impresses me. I'm presuming that you're reading this because you haven't seen it. What Little Black Dress sets out to do is tell a story that pits female characters against the wiles of the list of the worlds listed above. The drama (and fun and romping comedy too) that ensues does a lot to add some intelligence to a genre that usually relies on a different approach.

Yeah this is a pretty cool picture despite some glaring and strange things that keep turning up. Like you feel it's like two movies in one with one half a rom com and the other half a send up of dumb television.

The same thing with the two movies-in-one feel happens with the cast. There's the girl who finds this dress and is pretty fun and her friends too. But then you get the producer of a TV show and the ruthless TV world which she invades and the two don't always gel like you expect them to.

So the things I like about this flick are the hot chick who finds this dress and the soundtrack is good most of the time, but sometimes it gets really big and loud and the movie turns into just a long videoclip for a new song or something. That's just one of those strange things I was talking about, but it kept me interested most of the time. Lots of good laughs too...seven out of 10.