Review of Submarine (2011) by Mohd S — 07 Nov 2011

I saw this on DVD, so that may account for the fact that I couldn't understand a lot of it--the Welsh accents, that is. But that's where the sub-title button comes in handy. It was charming, however, and different from the usual cookie-cutter Hollywood fare we are fed about teenaged boys.

But having said that, I don't think that teenaged boys give a rat's ass about their parents' marriage, which thought kept intruding and kept me from ultimately enjoying the movie as much as I wanted to as he ran around trying to save that marriage.

I liked his romance with Jordana and I liked that he welched out (hmmm, where did that come from?) on Joranda when her mother was possibly dying. And there is an enjoyable sweetness to foreign movies in that you aren't waiting for someone to plug the main character with a bullet.

But just because it wasn't great, doesn't mean it wasn't good, which it was and I ultimately watched the whole thing which is not always the case on DVDs which I watch in bed.