I did not expect too much of this movie, but it's often these movies that give you a really good time watching them - so did O Brother Where Art Thou.
OK, I have to admit, you can hardly consider this film a "big one", as the jokes are often on a really low level, but that's just the kind of humour the Coen Bros intended to use, and it makes the movie, as for me, really really enjoyable.
Well, that Homer- and Odysseus-thing in the marketing seems way too emphasized to me, as I could only find some parallels to Homer's ancient poems that you could find, with a little effort, in dozens of today's films (the siren-scene even seems to be taken into the movie only to justify the use of this big poets name, as it does not really fit the rest of the story...), but, well, I didn't except to watch a literature adaption, but an entertaining, funny movie, and that's what I got - and much better than I expected.
The concept is not a new one, Clooney as the educated rascal with the heart in the right place and tons of rustical sayings that relativate his educated impression, but it is put into practice in an ironic, sometimes naive, but always sympathic way - and that's what you watch movies for, the impression that they leave, not a consistent story or a moral realization (which this movie does not claim to transport).
After all, you are left with a movie that is just fun watching, not only for the jokes, but also for the beautiful pictures and the bizarre characters. It's hard for me to tell what this film told me, but I liked the way I was told it. Why aren't there more of these films?
OK, I have to admit, you can hardly consider this film a "big one", as the jokes are often on a really low level, but that's just the kind of humour the Coen Bros intended to use, and it makes the movie, as for me, really really enjoyable.
Well, that Homer- and Odysseus-thing in the marketing seems way too emphasized to me, as I could only find some parallels to Homer's ancient poems that you could find, with a little effort, in dozens of today's films (the siren-scene even seems to be taken into the movie only to justify the use of this big poets name, as it does not really fit the rest of the story...), but, well, I didn't except to watch a literature adaption, but an entertaining, funny movie, and that's what I got - and much better than I expected.
The concept is not a new one, Clooney as the educated rascal with the heart in the right place and tons of rustical sayings that relativate his educated impression, but it is put into practice in an ironic, sometimes naive, but always sympathic way - and that's what you watch movies for, the impression that they leave, not a consistent story or a moral realization (which this movie does not claim to transport).
After all, you are left with a movie that is just fun watching, not only for the jokes, but also for the beautiful pictures and the bizarre characters. It's hard for me to tell what this film told me, but I liked the way I was told it. Why aren't there more of these films?