Review of Adaptation. (2002) by Mikeg. — 07 Dec 2005
This movie makes me imagine a middle school writing class. The students are asked to write about their favorite vacation ever. The best student in the class, instead of writing about his favorite vacation ever, writes a long story about trying to write a story about a book about an exciting vacation.
This was the problem with Adaptation. It's cute, it's sometimes funny, it's sometimes fun, but it spends so much time winking and nodding at the viewer that it just gets to be annoying.
The movie insists that we're in on the joke so many times that the joke gets tired really, really fast. It's too bad, too, because I enjoyed Cooper, Streep and the always stellar Brian Cox (hope he wins an Oscar one day).
But, as a movie, this failed in a big, big way.
This review of Adaptation. (2002) was written by Mikeg. on 07 Dec 2005.
Adaptation. has generally received very positive reviews.
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