Review of Welcome to Marwen (2018) by The3Academysins — 23 Sep 2019

In spite of occasionally dazzling visuals and heartfelt performances, Welcome to Marwen comes off as lackluster and deeply disappointing. The true story of Mark Hogencamp comes off as shallow and trying too hard to make the audience feel good.

Whats worse is that his fantasies come off as hypersexualized and creepy. This is a total disservice to the real story of a man who suffered a violent hate crime. While Steve Carrell is a fantastic actor, and really does his best with a lot of the scenes, the script completely undermines his work, and doesn't do service to either his acting ability, or the acting ability of the supporting cast.

There are some shining moments, but not enough to make me want to revisit this movie.