Amor em Fuga

Watched at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

I'm sorry but this movie is pretty bad. Imagine Wes Anderson and Yorgos Lanthimos, but blended with an unfunny and lackluster style, this movie presents itself that way.

The premise and concept is pretty good but unfortunately the director Evan Twohy doesn't seem to understand how to present it's concept at all. At it's finest, it's narrative feels pointless with moments of humor being unfunny, dull, and characters that are pretty annoying and unlikeable. It's like Twohy made a movie with no purpose and doesn't seem to have a good punchline at the end. Feeling more aimless.

Alongside with tedious dialogue and pacing, the solid performances from the cast is pretty wasted. It's a crime to have Matt Berry, Steven Yuen, Himesh Patel, and Sarah Goldberg who are all great actors, wasted with a terrible script that doesn't offer any value or purpose. Some of the good aspects are it's beautiful camerawork and there are a few gag moments that are slightly clever, but at the end of day, there doesn't seem to be a point.

Wasted potential is best described of this project.

Bubble and squeak is a weird film to kick off this year's Sundance Film Festival. The premise alone has the ability to create something absurd and hilarious. Sadly, while the film is weird, it doesn't do much. There are a few moments where the humor works and made me snicker and or chuckle, but nothing that made me laugh out loud.90% of the films humor is basically explaining what a character is doing or what is going on. After the first few minutes, it gets old fast. Bubble and squeak is a unique attempt at creating something absurd and funny, but in the end, it feels more like a imitator of Wes Anderson and Yorgos Lanthimos's styles of film making.