So willfully, smugly eccentric that it grows tiresome rather quickly.
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10/15/04
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I Heart Huckabees (2004)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:20
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.6/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 1, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $12,711,889
Synopsis: Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), head of the Open Spaces Coalition, has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences the meaning of which escapes him. With the help of two Existential... [More]
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law
Director: David O. Russell
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Reviews for I Heart Huckabees
Top CriticAdventurous, challenging and filled with small moments of delight. Unfortunately, it's also self-indulgent, repetitious and the sort of movie you wish was great but isn't.
10/15/04
Top CriticYou have to give everyone involved credit for mounting a joke that, if not of Dadaist proportions, should prove pretty funny to everyone except the rubes who wander in expecting to see something they can comprehend.
10/15/04
Top CriticIn a way, the movie is about everything and nothing, but its real problem has less to do with its philosophical ambition than with its scattered, half-digested musings.
10/15/04
Top CriticIt's a mad, mad, mad, mad, meaningful world, indeed.
10/15/04
Top CriticIt is difficult for me to describe how sweet and buoyant I found the film, despite its seemingly excessive stylization.
10/14/04
Top CriticAlong with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it's the most playful, intelligent and original comedy of the year.
10/14/04
Top CriticAn ambitious but disjointed spoof of New Age quirks and quacks that attempts to simultaneously put down and lift up. But, despite the A-list ensemble, it accomplishes neither.
10/12/04
Top CriticThere's ambition here, as well as a shaggy brilliance and a rare willingness on the part of a director to work out his questions in front of us, on film.
10/08/04
Top CriticTheirs is too painfully forced, from the movie's thin premise to its ideas about what's funny: Hoffman in a Beatles wig?
10/08/04
Top CriticWith razor-sharp performances, zingy one-liners, broad slapstick humor and a message of sorts, there's enough to distract the viewer from becoming hopelessly lost in the lint-filled chaos that is the umbilicus.
10/08/04
Top CriticIt's like a screwball comedy written by the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.
10/08/04
Top CriticIt's simultaneously tightly ordered and awfully cluttered.
10/08/04
Top CriticThe movie is like an infernal machine that consumes all of the energy it generates, saving the last watt of current to turn itself off. It functions perfectly within its constraints, but it leaves the viewer out of the loop.
10/08/04
Top CriticThe trick of David O. Russell's splattery, overstuffed, and pretty wonderful Philosophy 101 farce is that it's also one of the sanest movies in ages.
10/08/04
Top CriticSimultaneously scattered and thought-provoking, as if writer/director David O. Russell gathered up all his loose ideas and decided to pack them tightly into one movie.
10/07/04
Top CriticA head-scratcher.
10/07/04
Top CriticA heady, messy piece of existential angst that works against all odds.
10/07/04
Top CriticThe movie is disjointed and pointless. But its biggest shortcoming is that it's not funny.
10/07/04
Top CriticIt's filled with characters who, desperate to feel deep, want answers to life's big questions. And watching it, you, also desperate to feel deep, will want answers to big questions like, 'What's this all about?'
10/07/04
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