The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 234
Fresh: 170 | Rotten: 64
Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an epic fantasy tale with rich storytelling backed by fantastic performances.
Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 11
Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an epic fantasy tale with rich storytelling backed by fantastic performances.
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David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character's unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning of
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Cate Blanchett
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Julia Ormond
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Jason Flemyng
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Jared Harris
Captain Mike -
Elias Koteas
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Phyllis Somerville
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Tilda Swinton
Elizabeth Abbott -
Lance E. Nichols
Preacher -
Rampai Mohadi
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Elle Fanning
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All Critics (234) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (170) | Rotten (64) | DVD (24)
An epic, melancholic romance that employs a multi-generational cast and groundbreaking visual effects. It's a testament to Fincher's skill as a storyteller that the film actually works, albeit sporadically.
Top CriticWith a running time of almost three slow-going hours, the movie definitely makes you feel as though you're aging forward.
Mostly, the film is an orgy of excess, in which Fincher indulges his passion for luxuriant image-making, with little regard for whether the story merits (or can withstand) such grandiose treatment.
There's leisure to the storytelling, a splendor that captures the movie's celebratory but also melancholy ideas about our time on this mortal coil.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leaves you colder than it should, and it shouldn't leave you cold at all.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is that rare thing: a truly magical movie.
Everything sure is pretty, but I'm not sure this movie has anything to say.
One of the best half-movies of the year.
Every decade gets its Forrest Gump. David Fincher's version of a little known (and monumentally depressing) F. Scott Fitzgerald story is this one's. That's either a damning condemnation or just what the doctor ordered.
David Fincher's epic doesn't wallow in nihilistic obsessions, but preached no comforting homily about life's rich pageant either. Life is feel-good in spurts - a series of oddly interconnected, occasionally elating moments that accumulate before death.
It's not an inherently flawed premise, but it is in writer Roth's saccharine-stained hands. It's frustrating, because it's easy to see how it could have been so much better.
La premisa es un trozo puro de fantasía y una reflexión sobre el sentido de nuestras vidas%u2026 y creánme, dicha reflexión es tan sólo antesala de las muchas que contiene este filme.
Sure, I cried at the end. I'm not a robot. But I cry at cat food commercials if they punch the right button. I just can't get on the Button train. I wish I could have obeyed my instincts and stayed home.
Brad Pitt spends a lifetime aging backward in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and there are points in the movie where your tired hindquarters feel as if they've been along for every minute of his strange journey.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the total package, a deftly assembled fairy tale that unspools like a pleasant dream.
Who knew that F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story would end up on the screen as a three-hour Botox ad?
Between the visuals and the Pitt factor, this is a movie your girlfriend will dig, but there's enough crazy fantasy stuff going on that I'd never call it a "chick flick."
ostvarenje koje bi se komotno moglo nazvati Forrest Gump 2.0
a slow starter, and it never really speeds up into a thrilling film, save for one scene of war on the ocean. However, it's not meant to be fast-paced or riveted with action.
Yes, Button can be glorious, but the Hollywood glamour drowns the soul that it so needs. Plus, there is the insistent reminder that we will all lose our looks and die.
With fine acting all around, and Fincher's typically meticulous filmmaking engagingly, if coldly, transportive above and beyond Roth's mediocre script, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button bears examining. [Blu-ray]
... A beautiful, heartbreaking film ... packed with tender, loving performances and some of the most astounding visual effects we have ever seen.
an outsized romantic epic built on a potentially flimsy bit of fantastical whimsy that instead becomes an affecting allegory for the fleeting joys of life
The movie is gentle and sweet. Nothing more. Nothing less. And told most poetically.
Fincher's fascination with, and film's illusory power over, time deepened the mystery of his previous film, Zodiac. Such insights also redeem Button from its cuteness and kitsch.
It's a curious story indeed, a long and rambling exploration of time and what we make of it.
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- Grandma Fuller: Okay? Ya'll have to promise to go to bed.
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- Grandma Fuller: This is my granddaughter Daisy.
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- Benjamin Button: Or if I end up wettin' the bed?
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- Benjamin Button: It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.
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- Benjamin Button: Things were becomin' different for me. My hair had very little grey and grew like weeds. My senses of smell was keener, my hearin' more acute. I could walk further and faster, while everybody else was agin', I was gettin' younger... all alone!
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- Queenie: You never know what's comin' for you.
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Foreign Titles
- Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button (DE)
- L'Etrange histoire de Benjamin Button (FR)
