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Fresh:56
Rotten:79
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Ponderous and overlong, The Majestic drowns in forced sentimentality and resembles a mish-mash of other, better films.
Theatrical Release:Dec 21, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $27,745,194
Synopsis: In THE MAJESTIC, Jim Carrey stretches his talents and proves that he can be a credible serious actor with his portrayal of Peter Appleton, a Hollywood B-movie screenwriter who is black listed... [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Jeffrey DeMunn
Director: Frank Darabont
Darabont seem to have conceived this nostalgic tear-jerker in the tradition of Hail the Conquering Hero, without noticing that Preston Sturges's response to small-town patriotism was an astringent shot of satire.
Lazy, heavy-handed nostalgia.
Top CriticThe performance in this film to watch is veteran actor Martin Landau as the war hero's father.
A warm and loving ode to the magic of film and the golden age of movie making.
There are a lot of problems -- most generic, tired ones -- with The Majestic, but it also overflows with genuine joy.
Visuals often mesh seamlessly with the film's ragtime soundtrack, another treat.
Had Carrey plied his trade in the '50s, he never would have risen above B movies himself, so his workmanlike performance is an appropriate center for the film.
A derivative, self-satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple-minded if it tried.
Top CriticBy comparison, Patch Adams looks like a tough-minded documentary about medical school.
A treacly, synthetic and wildly overlong drama that aspires to Frank Capra-style uplift, but winds up suffocating you with its aura of bogus, store-bought nostalgia.
So obviously modeled on Capra's films that it begs to be measured against them, and it's not as good.
A pale imitation [of Capra's films] that challenges credulity and tries too hard to win our hearts with schmaltz.
Drowns Carrey's understated performance in cheap sentiment and sticky self-importance.
[Carrey's] natural charisma carries the movie with just the right dose of Jimmy Stewart charm.
Despite Carrey's best efforts and those of fetching newcomer Laurie Holden, Frank Darabont's film is an interminable, smothering tableau of Norman Rockwell pieties.
Top CriticTwo hours of tedium followed by an additional 30 minutes of preaching.
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Top CriticA crock--well-intentioned and slickly made, to be sure, but a crock nonetheless...unbelievably sappy.
There's a germ of something genuine under all the imitation, and the movie works, despite itself.
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