Tadpole
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Movie Reviews of Tadpole
Movie Review: I LIKE THE COMMENTARY TRACK
Summary: 3 Stars
Always have a commentary track. In cases like this movie, it's more interesting. As for the movie, it's just not that interesting. He likes his step mom. There's some comedy here. They did nothing with this. I guess they played it as a serious offering. I have a feeling that movie screenwriters are second rate TV people. You can't make a good comedy with dialogue alone. You must set up funny SITUATIONS. (I am a situational comedy writer.)Movie Review: If Woody did the Graduate
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a charming little film with some very nice performances. Bebe Neuwirth in particular is very, very funny. Her scenes with Stanford are what make this one sizzle. Extremely short (77 minutes)so if you blink you may miss something, but those minimal minutes are certainly entertaining. Watch for the restaurant scene - you will laugh and squirm at the same time.Movie Review: Fun & brief
Summary: 3 Stars
It's worth a rental. Just over an hour, Bebe is way sexy in this btw. Fun and funny.Movie Review: Eh...no
Summary: 2 Stars
This would have been an enjoyable bit of fluff for me. It had many of the elements that I loved about Rushmore - overly smart kid in love with older woman that's way out of his league. There's a definite charm in the concept and it's nice seeing Sigourney Weaver and Bebe Neuwirth working in actual roles.The problem I had with this movie was that it reminded me too much of the horrid <b>Igby Goes Down</b>. If you liked that movie, don't mind me, but the flaws of that movie carries over (if in a lesser extent) to this movie. You got the "oh-so-smart" kid being oh-so-charming and isn't he so precious. You got the clueless wealthy adults that are having a wonderful time of it. You got New York and the fact that this kid can go anywhere in New York that he wants. You got a lot of angst over really nothing at all.
It's puerile and it's annoying. If you want something about a rich too-smart-for-his-own-good kid wandering in New York, just read <b>The Catcher in the Rye</b> again. These movies try to invoke that sensibility but as everyone knows - there's no way you can adapt The Catcher in the Rye to screen. I suppose I should give it points for trying, but I really didn't like this movie.
Movie Review: TADPOLE IS NO IGBY
Summary: 2 Stars
TADPOLE is a nick-name for 15 year-old Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford), who pines incessantly for his stepmother (Sigourny Weaver). Over Thanksgiving break, Oscar comes to Manhatten, drinks heavily, and ends up in bed with his stepmom's best friend Diane (a scene stealing Bebe Neuwirth). Oscar takes up a lot of the remaining film trying to convince Diane not to tell his stepmom.
Tadpole's main problem is Aaron Stanford, who not only looks too old to be a high school sophomore but plays Oscar as very gay while still trying to be a ladies' man. Gender confusion might be a worthy subject for a black comedy, but that's not the issue here.
Too bad Tadpole didn't run into Igby, another pretentious spoiled but charmingly demented teen in Manhatten on school break. He could learn a few things. Disappointing.