No, it's not the worst movie ever, as another reviewer wrote here, at least not for me, but it's not a good movie too. In fact, I see it as a waste of some real funny jokes and some great cartoon characters. Thing is they don't meld together into anything resembling a movie. So even 97 minutes which are short by today's standards, become longish. I can't fault Adrien Brody, Ray Liotta, Kate Beckinsale Jason Sudeikis or Ken Jeong - they all deliver. To tell you the truth even Charlie Day's character is touching. And the satire is there, but since everyone is just a cartoon, and even the deepest relationships described in the movie - the one between Latte Pronto and Lenny grows into something heartfelt only in the last 10 minutes. The entire thing left me unmoved and mostly unimpressed.
There are lots of good elements in this movie, but they're all wasted since nothing coherent comes out. Just a pale shadow of the great Being There from 1979, in which Peter Sellers worked his magic. Go see it and see how cartoons can be made human.
There are lots of good elements in this movie, but they're all wasted since nothing coherent comes out. Just a pale shadow of the great Being There from 1979, in which Peter Sellers worked his magic. Go see it and see how cartoons can be made human.