Luckily the film I saw right after Annette was Walk Hard, the Dewey Cox Story. Simon Helberg was great in it. That film is also great, clever, funny.
Before I saw Annette I watched with great pleasure the Sparks Movie and like all their long standing fans I was excited to learn about Annette, their dream project realized at last and with famous actors and a large budget. The film opens and you feel this is going to be a great nonstop musical/artistic experience. Half way through I had to stop. I had questions, why was this so bad when the parts ought to add up to something, anything? But did not.
I took a week off, maybe longer.
When I got back to it Annette was still a puppet, Adam Driver was shrinking and the music was more repetitive, the plot obvious. Where this was going was not interesting anymore but I stuck with it because art/Sparks and low and behold in the last 16 minutes this movie found it's heart, Annette.
Young actor Devyn McDowell delivers the only convincing original performance in his entire cinematic folly. I still admire the Mael brothers even more so that they pulled this off but the only recommendation I have is to watch Devyn McDowell's career she quite literally delivered the best performance in the entire film.
Before I saw Annette I watched with great pleasure the Sparks Movie and like all their long standing fans I was excited to learn about Annette, their dream project realized at last and with famous actors and a large budget. The film opens and you feel this is going to be a great nonstop musical/artistic experience. Half way through I had to stop. I had questions, why was this so bad when the parts ought to add up to something, anything? But did not.
I took a week off, maybe longer.
When I got back to it Annette was still a puppet, Adam Driver was shrinking and the music was more repetitive, the plot obvious. Where this was going was not interesting anymore but I stuck with it because art/Sparks and low and behold in the last 16 minutes this movie found it's heart, Annette.
Young actor Devyn McDowell delivers the only convincing original performance in his entire cinematic folly. I still admire the Mael brothers even more so that they pulled this off but the only recommendation I have is to watch Devyn McDowell's career she quite literally delivered the best performance in the entire film.