innerboyka

Based on the reviews of this movie that I read on this site, I went into this film with high hopes. 90 minutes later,I was truly perplexed as to what all the buzz was about. Maybe films today are so bad that even "average" rates as "very good"? Well, I don't know, and while the film was not a total waste of time, it had little to offer,and was not as half as interesting as the reviews had lead me to believe it would be. The good: The beginning of the movie is very well set up: the movie takes place in the not too distant future where there are people who have the ability to recover and view the memories of others. The protagonist of the movie is a broken down memory reader in need of money and so he goes back to his old employer in search of a job.He is given a "simple" assignment: get a very precocious teenager to eat. But said teenager is *very* smart and not what she appears to be... Both the male lead (the returning memory recovery expert) and female lead ("Anna",the teenager) are played very well. The bad: Very convoluted plot, which devised to make the movie intriguing,in the end was a little over the top and maybe too clever for its own good. The ugly: The ending. Much ado about nothing. I was surprised that after all the complex twists and turns in the move it all came down to (what was in my opinion) an ending that is simple but unfortunately didn't really make much sense.

If I could give this movie negative stars, I would! Please avoid this movie at all costs. I got roped into seeing this by 2 of my relatives over the holidays and when we left the movie all 3 of us hated it and confessed it was all we could do to sit through it. This movie was possibly one of the stupidest I have ever seen. The gags were not funny, the situation comedy not even the slightest bit in the realm of possibilities for people with IQs above 50, and in the whole movie there were maybe 2 lines that were slightly amusing. The rest of the movie was sheer torture. Will Farrell is simply not funny, nor is Steve Carrell. Whoever made this film obviously thinks that something being in bad taste and stupid is automatically funny, and sometimes it is, but in this case it was just painful to watch and actually insulting to the audience. Will Farrell just might as well be picking his butt and making monkey noises, this is the level this film is at. I shudder to think that the average American moviegoer is so stupid that they would find such material even the slightest bit humorous.