The Anniversary Party
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Movie Reviews of The Anniversary Party
Movie Review: Hollywood on Hollywood
Summary: 3 Stars
I am always sceptical of movies written by actors about actors. These movies usaully end up being self congratulatory and too stylish. This one is right up that alley but isn't to disgraceful. The acting, with a couple of exceptions, is quite good and the "day in the life" plot moves along pretty well. Most of the characters play a close resembelence to their hollywood selves and luckily they all seem pretty human. As far as the stylishness of it all, it takes place in a beautiful modern, well decorated hollywood hills home and everybody in the film is beautiful. Not a bad film considering all the egos involved.Movie Review: Wish I could watch it...
Summary: 3 Stars
I would suppose this is not the seller's fault, but this DVD is not formatted to play in a standard DVD player...so imagine my chagrin to find that I've spent money on this purchase...yet, it won't play in my DVD player. I am not impressed with this purchase...what a disappointment. And I'd heard that this was a good movie... hope to see it on cable someday...since this DVD won't work at all. I do not recall seeing, or reading anything about this DVD's 'incompatibility issues' with standard DVD players while browsing the product before purchase. Beware shoppers.Movie Review: Just give me a break.
Summary: 3 Stars
"Thumbs Down!"Cheap Hollywood humor with story combine for a 3 star film. The film has humor, but little class to surpass as really entertaining. The acting was semi-deascent, but the humor pits a downfall for the whole film. The Anniversary Party is no party anymore.
Movie Review: does anybody know?
Summary: 3 Stars
Does anybody know the soundtrack well enough to say who does the song at the outset of the ecstasy party - sung in a foreign language, with rather an operatic sound? Many thanks if you can help with any info.Movie Review: Ug
Summary: 2 Stars
First, as has been made clear in previous reviews, there is not a single likeable person in this movie. Perhaps that isn't fatal to the enjoyment of a film, since, after all, "As Good As It Gets" was also exclusively populated by cads and whiners. Maybe if the story is compelling enough it would not have made any difference.But the story, my God, the story. Roger Ebert is absolutely correct, a film can survive bad directing, bad acting (usually just barely though), but bad writing is fatal. I didn't know anything about how this movie was put together when I saw it, but that should not make any difference. While two thirds of this movie were watchable, the last third was right out of dramatic writing 101. How many more disasters could they pile up in the last twenty minutes? I was waiting for an anvil to fall on Jennifer Jason Leigh's head at one point.
The fact is, my antipathy towards the characters was so great by that point that I didn't care what happened to them. Well, perhaps a nice good southern California mudslide sweeping away the entire bile-filled bunch would have been nice. But when you deal with characters as nasty as these, you better have a good story to tell.
"The Anniversary Party" doesn't.