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colin-411's rating
This film is both terrifically funny and terrifically stupid, simultaneously.
It helps to be old enough to understand things like the Cuban Missile Crisis (true), Nikita Khrushchev (true), and Marjorie Merriweather Post, the daughter of the founder of the Post Cereal Company, which she then ran from 1914 from to 1958, making it one of the biggest companies in the US.
Post later changed its name to General Foods Corporation, owner of such brands as Jell-O, Hellmann's Mayonnaise, Bakers Chocolate, and Maxwell House, among many others. She was also one of the two people that created the Frozen Food Industry. Clarence Birdseye created frozen foods, and Post funded the creation of his company, Birdseye, then bought it from him.
This film pokes fun at everyone and everything. Jerry Seinfeld, the star of the film, as well as it's director and chief writer, and the first comedian to become a billionaire, not only pokes fun at others, he pokes fun at himself-the rare Yellow Corsair station wagon he drives (only produced for about 1.5 years) is hardly the car an executive of one of the largest companies on Earth would drive!
To me, the standouts in the film are Peter Dinklage, who plays the head of a group of milkmen, and Hugh Grant, who plays Tony the Tiger. Both have smallish parts, but both are brilliant.
So, is it funny? Yes.
Is it historic? In a way, Yes.
Is it stupid? Yes.
Should you watch it? YES!
It helps to be old enough to understand things like the Cuban Missile Crisis (true), Nikita Khrushchev (true), and Marjorie Merriweather Post, the daughter of the founder of the Post Cereal Company, which she then ran from 1914 from to 1958, making it one of the biggest companies in the US.
Post later changed its name to General Foods Corporation, owner of such brands as Jell-O, Hellmann's Mayonnaise, Bakers Chocolate, and Maxwell House, among many others. She was also one of the two people that created the Frozen Food Industry. Clarence Birdseye created frozen foods, and Post funded the creation of his company, Birdseye, then bought it from him.
This film pokes fun at everyone and everything. Jerry Seinfeld, the star of the film, as well as it's director and chief writer, and the first comedian to become a billionaire, not only pokes fun at others, he pokes fun at himself-the rare Yellow Corsair station wagon he drives (only produced for about 1.5 years) is hardly the car an executive of one of the largest companies on Earth would drive!
To me, the standouts in the film are Peter Dinklage, who plays the head of a group of milkmen, and Hugh Grant, who plays Tony the Tiger. Both have smallish parts, but both are brilliant.
So, is it funny? Yes.
Is it historic? In a way, Yes.
Is it stupid? Yes.
Should you watch it? YES!
Pretty good flick. Good humor, generally good plot, generally moves along, though after the opening, it drags a bit for awhile.
However, there is one sour note I must report. The female lead,Carrie Coon, maybe the worst actress I have seen in years. Saying her looks AND performance was flat is, frankly, a compliment.
She added nothing to the film. Nothing.
McKenna Grace, playing Phoebe, carried the film, and did it well. Her interactions with the female ghost, Melody, were probably the highlight of the film, from an acting point-of-view.
The special Effects were, to put it mildly, SPECIAL. Really excellent work.
One thing I would like to point out as that this film was truly international. Parts were shot in Hollywood, parts in New York City, and parts of the film were done in Georgia, and parts in Reading, England (an outer suburb of London).
You gotta stay around for the small but hilarious comic bit that runs after some of the credits have run. Worth every second of your time.
However, there is one sour note I must report. The female lead,Carrie Coon, maybe the worst actress I have seen in years. Saying her looks AND performance was flat is, frankly, a compliment.
She added nothing to the film. Nothing.
McKenna Grace, playing Phoebe, carried the film, and did it well. Her interactions with the female ghost, Melody, were probably the highlight of the film, from an acting point-of-view.
The special Effects were, to put it mildly, SPECIAL. Really excellent work.
One thing I would like to point out as that this film was truly international. Parts were shot in Hollywood, parts in New York City, and parts of the film were done in Georgia, and parts in Reading, England (an outer suburb of London).
You gotta stay around for the small but hilarious comic bit that runs after some of the credits have run. Worth every second of your time.
Sub Rosa is not a Star Trek episode, it is simply a daytime soap opera with the wrong costumes.
None of it makes sense, and the 'action' in non-existent. Most of the main characters probably worked a couple of days during filming.
None of it makes sense, and the 'action' in non-existent. Most of the main characters probably worked a couple of days during filming.