JCEFalconi
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Contrived and self-important. The movie starts up with lazy, uncreative exposition in the form of a never-ending monologue by Spindola who hams it up like the best. This shows what will be a recurring theme in the movie, characters ceaselessly speechifying and reciting a inorganic speech written by a man who doesn't know how people really talk.
It's also quite disappointing that a movie with so much crass graphic nudity doesn't even manage to summon a fifth of the passion and eroticism any Almodovar film has, he didn't need to show one set of genitals to convey the raw sexuality of the characters. It's just laziness and shock where flair should be.
Alberto Estrella is the only who doesn't surrender fully to the director's mediocre vision and does the best with what he's given, but in the end it's not really enough.
It's also quite disappointing that a movie with so much crass graphic nudity doesn't even manage to summon a fifth of the passion and eroticism any Almodovar film has, he didn't need to show one set of genitals to convey the raw sexuality of the characters. It's just laziness and shock where flair should be.
Alberto Estrella is the only who doesn't surrender fully to the director's mediocre vision and does the best with what he's given, but in the end it's not really enough.
Watching this movie makes you sad about the state of the film industry in Mexico.
The movie barely makes sense, uses the most formulaic story conventions, talks down to kids, uses the most generic character design, the dialog is awful.
Again, it just makes you sad, this was a movie made with no vision, except the one to sucker a few parents into bringing their kids to this... "thing". One of the most disparaging aspects was that government money intended for support to Mexican cinema was used to fund this movie.
The only good thing about Imaginum would be that some good directors' kids got their brakes. Now that they failed, one hopes they will creep back into the creative void they came from.
The movie barely makes sense, uses the most formulaic story conventions, talks down to kids, uses the most generic character design, the dialog is awful.
Again, it just makes you sad, this was a movie made with no vision, except the one to sucker a few parents into bringing their kids to this... "thing". One of the most disparaging aspects was that government money intended for support to Mexican cinema was used to fund this movie.
The only good thing about Imaginum would be that some good directors' kids got their brakes. Now that they failed, one hopes they will creep back into the creative void they came from.
The fact that Mexican movies were seldom made during the early 90's is no reason to tag this amateurish film as a classic. It's a movie with an interesting sounding plot, shoddily executed.
Retes hires relatives for the roles, and boy, you can really tell they're not actors. Maybe I'm being unfair since almost all actors do an awful job during the movie. The writing's one dimensional and cliché-ridden and the direction is consistently unremarkable.
I read reviews talking about the "Mexican identity" that is portrayed in the movie. As if the identity of tens of millions people could be defined. The human expression in the movie isn't it even representative of Mexican behaviour, it isn't representative of human behaviour period.
This is no classic.
Retes hires relatives for the roles, and boy, you can really tell they're not actors. Maybe I'm being unfair since almost all actors do an awful job during the movie. The writing's one dimensional and cliché-ridden and the direction is consistently unremarkable.
I read reviews talking about the "Mexican identity" that is portrayed in the movie. As if the identity of tens of millions people could be defined. The human expression in the movie isn't it even representative of Mexican behaviour, it isn't representative of human behaviour period.
This is no classic.