Welcome to the Dollhouse
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Movie Reviews of Welcome to the Dollhouse
Movie Review: Comedy = Tradgedy + Time
Summary: 5 Stars
Get a fresh box of facial tissues and a canister of pure oxygen for everyone in the audience before you hit the play button on this one! Tears will drain from your ducts and you will lose your breath. Lithium cannot control anyone's mood swings on this wild ride. Warning: Expect ultra-rapid cycles of intense amusement to intense sadness...This film tackles tough teenage issues like acceptance by your peers, as well as, the lack of love and support, understanding and guidance, plus the positive recognition that should be provided by all parents. The lonliness in this environment is too intolerable for some to bear. Kudos for surviving these years!
Heather Matarazzo's character represents each of us, whether in part, or full, so we are really drawn in by her. She pulls off a fabulous performance.
As you may have noticed, this film is loved or hated by reviewers. These are VERY STRONG feelings that show everyone agrees you will be on an amazing ride. Todd Solondz conveys laughter and tears brilliantly; Ergo, 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' rates as a very successful, 5 star film...
Movie Review: A film that needs a Trigger Warning
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the only movie I have ever seen about adolescence that doesn't read to me like a Big Fat Lie. For that alone, it gets five stars.
Unfortunately, it also set off a full-fledged PTSD flashback for me, and I wound up spending the entire night on the floor of the bathroom, puking and shaking uncontrollably. I don't know if I could whole-heartedly recommend this film for anyone who occupied the lowest rung of the social ladder in junior high school. Yes, it tells the truth. But for some people, maybe that truth isn't one we really need to be reminded of in such a brutally honest fashion.
A brilliant film, but one that I don't think I could ever see again, at least not without the aid of some serious drugs. To those who found this movie a less realistic depiction of Life at the Bottom of the Pecking Order than that cheerfully idiotic piece of fluff Napoleon Dynamite...I. Well. I just. I just really have no words, other than these: Consider yourself fortunate. Consider yourself very fortunate.
Movie Review: The most horrific film ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Some people say that "The Exorcist" is the most scary movie ever. Some say its "Jaws", then some say its Dan Quayle. Not for me. For me, its "Welcome to the Dollhouse". I had to see in a spaces. Part by part, scene by scene, because it was just to painful to watch. Never had any director put on screen so truthfully the pain, misery and loneliness that comes when you are bully. I know that personnally.The story is about this geeky teen, played with natural charm by Matarazzo. She's tormented at school, ignored by here parents in favor of her "so cute you hate her" sister. She falls in love with this much older bum, makes a sort of friend from a bully who wants to rape her, etc. All her attempts to be accepted, to be recognized, backfires terribly.
In the story of this girl, director Todd Solondz really manages to show how a segrated society we have and how reputation and looks is more important then what you really are inside. And that is more scary than a shark or an alien.
Movie Review: realistic account
Summary: 5 Stars
welcome to the dollhouse is a touching and realistic account of what its like to be on the outskirts of growing up. dawn is a young gyrl trying to fight her way in. she deals with bullies, her parents rejection, and her own self hate. the film has its funny moments such as dawn standing over her sleeping sister's bed with a hammer in her hands. the character of dawn is well played but barely develops. brendon sexton jr plays brandon, a bully in his own right but has feelings for dawn. his role is small but quite significant. dawn's family is very unlikeable strictly because of their arrogance and complete disregard of dawn. overall the film is good. you will find yourself not only sympathizing with dawn but may find her angst and vulnerbility alittle like your own in the often harsh world of growing up. the ending could be better; it leaves you wondering about alot of things. but despite the ending the film is heartfelt and very satisfying.
Movie Review: this is a great, great film.
Summary: 5 Stars
i first saw this, thinking it would just kinda be average sundance fare (some sort of slacker feature in the vein of *shudder* Clerks), but i was proved wrong. what we have here is one of the greatest black comedies i have ever seen. the plot basically consists of the misadventures of Dawn, a young girl trapped in a kafkaesque junior high experience. the film glides on, providing one more tragedy for Dawn to suffer from, be it the ominous presence of a malevolent sociopath of a bully, or "cheating" claims, and of course her ever-present sister. yes, todd solondz has captured suburbia as an unforgiving land that is nearly on the same level as Hubert Selby Jr.'s Brookyn. it's a wonderful film. most people will claim it's merely alienated and tragic, but it has an inner sweetness at the core that, while not immediately visible, will grow more and more evident, until the film has finished and you will have an excellent moviegoing experience.