I giggled through the last two-thirds of this movie. So. Funny.
But it's a certain kind of funny. It's a taste thing. It's not Three-Stooges funny or awkward rom-com funny or TV comedy funny. It's the kind of funny where you're giggling at the character's idiosyncrasies and the way they push it just a liiiiittle too far to be realistic. It's something I'd call “ridiculous funny” and it suits my taste and you'll just have to try it and see if you like it.
This is a great movie for a perfectionist to watch. Someone who's stressed out by all the hubble-jumble of rom-coms will love the lines in this movie. Everything is centered - exactly. I found it oddly relaxing.
However this movie's light is so bright that it casts a slim but very dark shadow. The casual way they slide across the death of a character (a narrator speaking over a clip of her wedding) is brusque enough to give me a sense of darkness and fatalism behind the humor. There's no discernible message that I found in the story, and I was watching for it, so I looked back at the WAY they told the story in order to at least grasp the worldview (which is always discernible, even if the writer tries to leave the story without any message). It's along the lines of “everything is random, and everything dies.” But it doesn't really matter. The movie ends before any real stormclouds can arrive, so all you get is this ridiculous, sunny portrait of a man and his really hilariously stoic valet.
But it's a certain kind of funny. It's a taste thing. It's not Three-Stooges funny or awkward rom-com funny or TV comedy funny. It's the kind of funny where you're giggling at the character's idiosyncrasies and the way they push it just a liiiiittle too far to be realistic. It's something I'd call “ridiculous funny” and it suits my taste and you'll just have to try it and see if you like it.
This is a great movie for a perfectionist to watch. Someone who's stressed out by all the hubble-jumble of rom-coms will love the lines in this movie. Everything is centered - exactly. I found it oddly relaxing.
However this movie's light is so bright that it casts a slim but very dark shadow. The casual way they slide across the death of a character (a narrator speaking over a clip of her wedding) is brusque enough to give me a sense of darkness and fatalism behind the humor. There's no discernible message that I found in the story, and I was watching for it, so I looked back at the WAY they told the story in order to at least grasp the worldview (which is always discernible, even if the writer tries to leave the story without any message). It's along the lines of “everything is random, and everything dies.” But it doesn't really matter. The movie ends before any real stormclouds can arrive, so all you get is this ridiculous, sunny portrait of a man and his really hilariously stoic valet.