My comments (WARNING- POSSIBLE SPOILERS):
I thought overall the movie was decent. I think the excellent soundtrack (did Belle and Sebastian write that track just for this movie?) helped it quite a bit though. Mood and 50's white-bread campiness in acting style was very "Edward Scissorhands"/"Pleasantville"-like...in terms of the nosy neighbors, the conformity, the whole ostracization, the gosh golly gee dialogue...etc etc...nothing really groundbreaking or different though...
Reading the reviews, what irks me is that people are taking the movie at face value and can't just see that some scenes were clearly done tongue-in-cheek and/or were not meant to be realistic in any sense:
Come on people. This movie is not supposed to be realistic. It is a quirky little funny film.
I thought overall the movie was decent. I think the excellent soundtrack (did Belle and Sebastian write that track just for this movie?) helped it quite a bit though. Mood and 50's white-bread campiness in acting style was very "Edward Scissorhands"/"Pleasantville"-like...in terms of the nosy neighbors, the conformity, the whole ostracization, the gosh golly gee dialogue...etc etc...nothing really groundbreaking or different though...
Reading the reviews, what irks me is that people are taking the movie at face value and can't just see that some scenes were clearly done tongue-in-cheek and/or were not meant to be realistic in any sense:
- Car going off cliff explodes 3 times before even hitting anything (boyfriend survives) - Boyfriend (Kent?) suddenly becomes understanding, sensitive, and supportive immediately after the accident (Loved his pained grimace when they kissed in front of him) - The "West Side Story"-type soundtrack during the fight (Loved Kent's Fighting Irish fists a la Conan O'Brien) - The rival sorority doing a very staged celebration in front of their sorority house with a monstrous Trophy; you then see a teeny-weeny trophy in the other sorority sister's hands. - Ricci has to go to Long Beach Tech, and EGADs! has to live with regular people, who of course, like all common people, have roosters and chickens in the front yard (hahahahah!)
Come on people. This movie is not supposed to be realistic. It is a quirky little funny film.