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Movie Reviews of Town and Country
Movie Review: not as bad as everyone says
Summary: 4 Stars
First off most people will probally want to rent this first, Because it's not something everyone like despite the huge esemble cast. The movie is pretty funny largly in the last half with Andie Mcdowell and Charslton Heston Yes I said Chalston Heston. The Movie came and went quickly in theatres and I had decided I would Purchase on dvd. I don't regert buting this movie but a lot of people probbally wont like enough to own. One more thing The dvd is bare bones and includes only the trailer and cast and crew biogrpies and the option to watch it in wide or full on a one sided disc which i liked, I hate flipper dvds like terminator and goodfellas.Why did they not atleat put a featurette and some delted scenes on the disc.Movie Review: PETER CHELSOM, OPUS 4
Summary: 4 Stars
***1/2 2001. Directed by British born director Peter Chelsom. The sentimental adventures of two couples after 25 years of marriage. Very funny but one can regret that the slapstick mood of the second part of the film is a little bit too heavy. I preferred a lot the NYC scenes with the family problems of the Stoddard's to the Sun Valley scenes that feature a farcical Charlton Heston and the evanescent because empty character played by Andie MacDowell. Good surprise, though.Movie Review: Not great, but not as bad as you'd think
Summary: 3 Stars
After an almost steady diet of martial arts flicks, I thought it was time for a change. That's when I switched to this marital art flick: Town and Country. Although the movie has been almost universally-panned by critics, I really don't think it's that bad.Admittedly, the ending is saccharine and weak, and there isn't a plot, but the film is an interesting ride in a slice-of-life kind of way. When Porter Stoddard discovers his best friend has been having an affair to the detriment of his marriage, it sets him to thinking, albeit with the wrong head. When it seems that everyone in his household is in the midst of a rut season, it sets him over the edge. Porter's inevitable adulterous affairs are truly entertaining, if unbelievable. Two out of the four women he becomes amorously attached to are absolute wackos (one believes her dolls are alive and another believes she's been impregnated by a cello), and it's probably this, as much as his love for his wife, that makes him attempt to get back into his earlier, saner state of marital bliss.
The movie is filled with understated ironies, and it's this subtlety that saves the movie from being a total flop. I enjoyed the little touches, like the cellist's wonderful tattoos, the interior decorator's home being absolutely hideous, and the awkward homo-erotic tension between Griffin and Porter.
Most of all, I enjoyed the performance of Charlton Heston as the psychotic father of an insane ski bunny. Town and Country is worth watching just for the scene where Porter meets this family. I laughed so hard, I had pause the movie to catch my breath.
Movie Review: A lot of talent wasted on a weak screenplay
Summary: 3 Stars
This film took over three years to bring to the screen with a budget of over $90 million. Having grossed less than $7 million at the box office, it stands out as one of the biggest box office disasters in history. Actually, it isn't that bad, but it is by no means as good a film as one would suppose looking at the cast.The film features an outstanding cast, but an undistinguished director and writing team. The result is a whole lot of talented people going through the motions saying lines that are seldom funny in skits that are mostly insipid. The story is a typical midlife crisis comedy where Porter (Warren Beatty) and Griffin (Garry Shandling) perpetrate various indiscretions on their loyal wives of 25 years. This is clearly a comedy aimed at the 45+ demographic with little traction among the younger moviegoers that represent the lion share of entertainment dollars spent.
The ensemble cast of noted veterans does a decent job with sparse material. Warren Beatty gives the best performance, with a plenty of good physical comedy despite the weak lines. Goldie Hawn and Jenna Elfman are also good. Diane Keaton and Garry Shandling are well off their game in this film and Andie MacDowell and Nastassja Kinski are little more than window dressing. Charleton Heston steals the show with an outrageous cameo as MacDowell's father.
This film fails to scratch its way above the water line with a great deal of (expensive) talent wasted. The whole is far less than the sum of the parts. I rated it a 5/10. It's worth a try for middle aged viewers.
Movie Review: This Has Some Very Funny Moments...
Summary: 3 Stars
...like at the Costume Party. And when Beatty goes to the home of psycho McDowell and runs into Charlton Heston, her dad, an avid hunter and a card carrying NRA member who has that cold dead grip on his daughter as well as his rifles. McDowell's wheelchair bound, vodka gimlet drinking Mother thinks this rifle business of his is limpness, pure and simple. But don't let the neighbors know, willya?Beatty, it seems, comes right back, full circle, to the Lothario thing that he established in Shampoo. (Hey! Goldie Hawn was in that one with Beatty, too.) And it works on the audience for a while. Until he gives that same "I'm so, so sorry, but I can't help myself" speech--updated and Grecian formula dyed for the New Nilhilenium. Plus, now he's married in real life and in this docudrama.
And who would have thought Garry Shandling would play so convincing a gay man--albeit one who has difficulties admitting this to his wife and his pal? Jenna Elfman here is goofy but wasted. Her persona is better than what's offered her here. SHE should have played Mary Jane Watson to Maguire's Spiderman...and Keaton--hey! didn't she appear with Beatty in Reds?--well, she played a woman who obviously has *no clue* quite well.
If nothing else, a great way for us guys to oogle over the fabuloso Natassia K. and be astounded by Hawn's great gams. One wonders if Hawn has taken that potion her character had in Death Becomes Her.
I'd better stop here. I'm beginning to sound a little like Warren Beatty.