Ninety minutes to tell a 10 minute story. The other 80 minutes was irrelevant filler. Clearly a story worthy of the 90 minutes of your time, but the director couldn't decide what movie he wanted to make. Obviously, no one knows what happened to the tape, so the director had total creative license here and he decided to insult our intelligence by depicting the erasure of the tape and its subsequent disappearance using a method that is a technical impossibility. He could have chosen countless other plausible ways. I can't figure out if this was laziness (lack of continuity research) or poking fun at the audience and embracing the obvious error. Either way, it was annoying and left me shaking my head. I understand it's a comedy, but that is not funny- neither subjectively nor objectively. Just plain stupid.
Review of 18½
