Adventurous, 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.
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10/15/04
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I Heart Huckabees (2004)
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Reviews Counted:180
Fresh:111
Rotten:69
Average Rating:6.3/10
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
You 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
Russell is unable to transform his psychologically warped story into a shape that can be enjoyed.
10/14/04
It 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 CriticFor a film about meaning, this long-winded ode to existential meandering makes little sense leaving most of us viewers distanced and cold.**
10/13/04
An 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 CriticA chaotic, shambling satire.
10/12/04
It’s a comfortable sort of confusion that Russell has brought to the table. Good luck figuring out exactly what the point is.
10/12/04
If introductory philosophy was this much fun, enrolment would go through the roof.
10/12/04
Think of it less as a deconstruction of philosophies, and more like an episode of Last Comic Standing where the jokesters are Nietzsche, Heidegger and Kant.
10/11/04
Horrible torture. David O. Russell hates us.
10/11/04
...the result is a sometimes amusing, mild mannered philosophical comedy that is, in the end, shallow.
10/11/04
despite [a] muddled attempt at some kind of existential relevance, I Heart Huckabees works on an absurdist comedy level
10/10/04
Russell should probably be applauded for trying something different, but I Heart Huckabees often seems weird for weirdness' sake.
10/10/04
Will likely divide audiences between those who find its deliberately abstruse discombobulation amusing & to the point, and those who find it just abstruse & discombobulated.
10/09/04
There'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 CriticRussell ... is so preoccupied with his western philosophy and eastern religion that he neglects the people in his film, and their thinness starts to grate after at time.
10/08/04
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