Review of Anomalisa (2015) by Brent_Marchant — 09 Jan 2016

A handful of chuckles and the use of moderately clever animation can't save this tediously slow and underdeveloped exercise in pointless pretension. Whatever themes of isolation, connection, conformity and individuality that the director was aiming for get buried under heaping piles of mindless, unfocused dialogue that does little to enlighten us about the characters or effectively move the story forward.

And, even at the scant runtime of 1:30, it feels a lot longer as we wait for this meandering, self-indulgent missive to finally burn itself out.