Mappyman

A wonderful drama about the lives of a few outlawish teenagers. The story follows Van Dine, a total playboy stuntman who with his friend Vance are living the fun life doing Jackass-like stunts to show their friends. The girls in their life Fion, Vivian, and her two sisters always go with them on their adventures. Van also has a cop friend who gets porn from his adult magazine stand from time to time. The controversy appears when Fion gets between Van Dine and Vivians close friendship. Vivian then disappears and now they're out to find her and why she went away. Using Vance's hacking skills they think they locate the culprit being an old pervert known as the "Binding Freak". The color used for this movie is magnificent and all of the characters are absolutely gorgeous. There's a few moments when it goes a bit beyond the spectrum of reality but its part of the lightheartedness of the film. Its a very cute movie overall and has some very sweet moments. While the ending was a little confusing it all worked out for everyone.

Tideland tells the story of a little girl caught up in a series of totally bizarre characters. the story begins with her mom dying of a heroin overdose and she and her dad head out to their grandma's old house to avoid any controversy. Jeliza-Rose isn't an ordinary girl, she has a wild imagination and her best friends include the heads of four of her dolls, each with its own personality. her favorite being Mystique, the troublesome one with a British accent. At the new house she meets her neighbors, Dell, a lady she believes is a ghost but is really just a twisted taxidermist, and her brother dickens who is a sweet guy but mentally challenged. her imagination gone wild and her dad totally gone on drug injections, Jeliza-Rose and and dickens fight to take down the monster shark and possibly find the end of the world! The first thing off the bat that people will be happy to know is that gilliam has not lost his style one bit. Dismissing the sub-par Brothers Grimm, this movie more than makes up for it bringing back his Fear And Loathing ups and downs of meotion while keeping a comedy aspect of it all. While admitting to never have used any illicit drugs, Gilliam sure has a pretty warped sense to create such wild characters and personalities.

This is deinfately the lead actress Jodelle Ferland's movie. not only does she act in it but she voices for all four of her dolls. at first you see her doing the voices but as it transitions, they end up just speaking on their own. You'll definitely fall in love with her after seeing this film. Jeff Bridges is very funny, almost revising his "The Dude" role from the Big Lebowski. the other characters perform their roles well too and are sometimes maybe TOO scary for some audiences. The movie contains what might be considered mild pedophilia so some audiences might be cautioned of this beforehand.

The musical score is very nice. While seeming to be a tim burton movie at some parts, the music score is very whimsical despite its dark humor and very strange characters. no matter how bad things gt in the movie whether it be death, drugs, murder or whatever, it keeps a lighthearted sense about it with the music.

This movie was released over a year ago outside of the united states and its a shame as the movie is definitely one of Gillliam's finest. It didn't stop once and kept a very funny and happy pace even with its dark humor. Any fan of his movies will love it. People new to his style might be turned off by some parts but its aim for a more mature audience anyway.