Review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) by Hotfromcauldron — 11 Jun 2015
Earl” suffers from too muchitis. Voice over over kill and labeled scenes make dialogue redundant.
As we are told what to think and even what not to think! Twice! So we shut off our brains become.
Less engaged and emotionally disconnected for the first 100 minutes. All this drowns in Ryan Murphyistic stylization- who knows how to balance it with crazy plot and even crazier characters. Casting also hits and misses - Earl and Me good- but the dying girl has been doing a nice job for the past two seasons dying on the TV series Bates Motel while being the object of an outcast teen’s fixation. Sound familiar? And when the moment we’ve been waiting for finally comes- the impact is quickly dissipated - by more voice over from here and beyond. It is the best of films. It is the worst of films.
This review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) was written by Hotfromcauldron on 11 Jun 2015.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl has generally received very positive reviews.
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