7 out of ten.
Why? Because it works as a send up of TV and because, the ice sculpture looked like the alien Sigorny Weaver once did battle with. (I think it was supposed to be a polar bear but the shooting angle was carefully chosen to make the joke. Then the Hollywood machine -- rating us all with zero intelligence as they like to do sooo often -- got Sigorney to virtually tell us the joke in the dialogue. Ho Hum). Now, I am a fierce critic of movies, as anyone who had read most of my "reviews" on here will know. (If I hate it I don't review it I just stone it to death). This however, was a delightful change and a pleasantly funny movie.
Apart from some of the background characters going over the top, everyone played a great part. David Duchovny as Mike, was superb as the suffering writer having his entire script stolen from him and re- written in dumb down mode (Something Hollywood would never do, of course!) played his role to perfection. No, that it is not a spoiler! Sigourney Weave as Lenny, a sort of, emotionally dead, pseudo-logical, ratings obsessed monster, played the role of her human version of the Alien perfectly. If she had dribbled some slime she could have been that very monster.
Everyone did their part and everyone did it well (Except for the O.T.T. background characters on the TV sitcom set).
This is not a movie to tax your brain and not one to kill it off like many Amercian "comidies" (sic)are today. It is exactly the kind of thing to watch when you are too exhausted to think too much and way too bored to want to. It will deliver just the right amount of pick me up.
Watch it! It is worth the money and the time.
Why? Because it works as a send up of TV and because, the ice sculpture looked like the alien Sigorny Weaver once did battle with. (I think it was supposed to be a polar bear but the shooting angle was carefully chosen to make the joke. Then the Hollywood machine -- rating us all with zero intelligence as they like to do sooo often -- got Sigorney to virtually tell us the joke in the dialogue. Ho Hum). Now, I am a fierce critic of movies, as anyone who had read most of my "reviews" on here will know. (If I hate it I don't review it I just stone it to death). This however, was a delightful change and a pleasantly funny movie.
Apart from some of the background characters going over the top, everyone played a great part. David Duchovny as Mike, was superb as the suffering writer having his entire script stolen from him and re- written in dumb down mode (Something Hollywood would never do, of course!) played his role to perfection. No, that it is not a spoiler! Sigourney Weave as Lenny, a sort of, emotionally dead, pseudo-logical, ratings obsessed monster, played the role of her human version of the Alien perfectly. If she had dribbled some slime she could have been that very monster.
Everyone did their part and everyone did it well (Except for the O.T.T. background characters on the TV sitcom set).
This is not a movie to tax your brain and not one to kill it off like many Amercian "comidies" (sic)are today. It is exactly the kind of thing to watch when you are too exhausted to think too much and way too bored to want to. It will deliver just the right amount of pick me up.
Watch it! It is worth the money and the time.