Review of Iceberg (2005) by Walter M — 08 Mar 2008
I just barely liked this and didn't really enjoy it. The characters are neurotically stereotyped and seem to be on marionette strings. If you like America's Funniest Home Videos and similar cutesy humor, you might really enjoy this and get a kick out of the jokes, but I found the action repetitive (repeating the joke is the most reliably funny joke in fact, and believe me, the joke of repeating the joke gets repeated for.
.. well... amazing funniness, theoretically) and the characters shallow and the surrealism unappealing except in a couple memorable scenes. But that might all have been totally fine if the humor had been my style.
The synopsis sounds so promising, too, and I love surrealism and neurotic characters. But I can't stand videos of pets doing silly things that are supposed to be funny, and that's what these characters remind me of.
Only they're not dogs with closed bottles of Jack Daniels, they're people and they're beset and heartbroken and they can't express it because they're stereotyped marionettes... Sigh.
.. if you're less neurotic than I am, you'll probably like it...
This review of Iceberg (2005) was written by Walter M on 08 Mar 2008.
Iceberg has generally received positive reviews.
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