Never forget that surreal is anchored in the real.
This movie's biggest strength is that it. . . Sort of understands this. The vast majority of the humor is derived from the sense of normalcy -- how it's treated as a barely newsworthy matter of fact that Hubert suddenly turned into a rat.
Unfortunately, this also ends up being the movie's biggest problem. It actually succeeds in normalizing the concept for the audience. And when it does that, it has a tendency to drag.
A plot twist does inject life back into the film, but only briefly, and to ground itself even further into boredom.
Fortunately, all of this builds up to a truly fantastic ending, with its only fault being that an otherwise uplifting and heartwarming message appears to fall on deaf ears for the character that, up until that point, had been yearning for precisely that.
It may feel like a grind watching this movie, but the grind is worth it to reach the end.
This movie's biggest strength is that it. . . Sort of understands this. The vast majority of the humor is derived from the sense of normalcy -- how it's treated as a barely newsworthy matter of fact that Hubert suddenly turned into a rat.
Unfortunately, this also ends up being the movie's biggest problem. It actually succeeds in normalizing the concept for the audience. And when it does that, it has a tendency to drag.
A plot twist does inject life back into the film, but only briefly, and to ground itself even further into boredom.
Fortunately, all of this builds up to a truly fantastic ending, with its only fault being that an otherwise uplifting and heartwarming message appears to fall on deaf ears for the character that, up until that point, had been yearning for precisely that.
It may feel like a grind watching this movie, but the grind is worth it to reach the end.