I'm an action movie guy -- I get bored in the melodramatic scenes in dramas or romantic comedies. "How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog", however, is a straight comedy, and it's laugh-out-loud funny and intellectual without being too arty.
Kenneth Branagh is great as usual, but the film isn't of the powerful and elite theatrical stuff he normally does. It's rather like "Dead Again", in being typical Hollywood with a few interesting twists and some very clever lines and interactions. There film has something to say, sort-of, but it's not especially deep, and I'm sure I totally missed lots of in-jokes for theater performers.
The only negative comments I'd make: (a) the film involves a disease, whose symptoms I entirely failed to pick up on (b) was it just a bad videocassette I rented, or is the sound quality awful?
Who should see this film:
-- theater actors, writers, stagehands
-- comedy lovers who aren't expecting any action or romance
-- action buffs: when your spouse tries to get you to
watch a romantic comedy, make an attempt to switch to this one
I rate "How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" a 7 out of 10.
Kenneth Branagh is great as usual, but the film isn't of the powerful and elite theatrical stuff he normally does. It's rather like "Dead Again", in being typical Hollywood with a few interesting twists and some very clever lines and interactions. There film has something to say, sort-of, but it's not especially deep, and I'm sure I totally missed lots of in-jokes for theater performers.
The only negative comments I'd make: (a) the film involves a disease, whose symptoms I entirely failed to pick up on (b) was it just a bad videocassette I rented, or is the sound quality awful?
Who should see this film:
-- theater actors, writers, stagehands
-- comedy lovers who aren't expecting any action or romance
-- action buffs: when your spouse tries to get you to
watch a romantic comedy, make an attempt to switch to this one
I rate "How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" a 7 out of 10.