Review of Colossal (2017) by Kjetil J — 08 Jan 2018

I like this, and I liked it even better when I realized Nacho Vigalondo also made Timecrimes/Los Cronocrimenes (2007), a time travel movie I understood! (I watched it shortly after Primer (2004)). Nacho, my saviour! Timecrimes, good as it is, huffed and puffed to get it right. Colossal also has a fragile storyline, but much better handled.

Anne Hathaway drinks too much and gets fired from her New York boyfriend. Cue small hometown to live in her parents` house. They and furniture are absent. She meets childhood friend Jason Sudeikis. who gives her a television and a job. Hathaway deftly plays her character not as the jaded bigtown cynic you could expect, but as a loveable klutz - masquerading this both warm and chilling movie as a rom-com. (Is rom-trag a label?) And it is a breakthrough part for Sudeikis. While Hathaway accepts failure as a part of life, he thinks he deserves better and blames the world.

Destruction follows. You could describe it as The Elephant Effect. With avatars. This part of the movie begins a little too crushy - the mayhem could start up in an unpopulated area, perhaps? Loved the conclusion, love how the film stays in my mind. Now, if I only could get rid of Primer...