Man of the Year (2006)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 112
Weakened by second-half attempts at thriller and romance, this presidential comedy also fails to hit any sharp political notes, resulting in a confused and unsatisfying mess.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 27
Weakened by second-half attempts at thriller and romance, this presidential comedy also fails to hit any sharp political notes, resulting in a confused and unsatisfying mess.
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Good Morning, Vietnam duo Barry Levinson and Robin Williams re-team to tell the tale of a quick-witted radio talk-show host whose fanciful bid for the presidency becomes a surprising reality in the one political comedy that truly speaks for the people. When talk show host Tom Dobbs (Robin Williams) makes an offhand comment that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House, a grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly
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Robin Williams
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Laura Linney
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Christopher Walken
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Lewis Black
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Jeff Goldblum
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Rick Roberts
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David Alpay
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Karen Hines
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Linda Kash
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Levinson has written and directed in many genres. But rarely has he made a film as indecisive and diffident as Man of the Year.
Top CriticA surprisingly complex and dark satire that skewers the media as well as the political process.
Man of the Year makes telling points and has a lot to say, but it loses its voice along with its consistency around the mid-way point, and that will likely make it an also-ran in the box office race.
It's a comedy, a political thriller, a love story: Barry Levinson's Man of the Year tries to be all things to all people and fails on every count -- a little like the generic, ineffectual politicians it's pretending to excoriate.
A few observations about the hollowness of party politics, plus Robin Williams doing lots of funny shtick as a Jon Stewart-like comic running for president, have been thrown together with low regard for logic or consistent tone.
Barry Levinson's Man of the Year squanders a promising premise; it's ultimately overlong, underwritten and strangely unfunny.
Lame political comedy misses the mark.
Uneven, but never less than entertaining.
Man of the Year has some nice ideas and a handful of excellent scenes, but it struggles to find the right tone and is hamstrung by a ridiculous plot point.
Too compromised to be more than a reasonably pleasurable entertainment, as if it is scared about what it is saying about the American political process.
This being Robin Williams, it's hard to find his routines as vote-winningly hilarious as they're meant to be.
There are good moments, although it doesn't work properly either as a satirical thriller or a rom-com.
Cynicism or stupidity? It's hard to say which has the run of this idiotic satire in which Robin Williams plays a talk-show host who runs for president on a ticket of cleaning up politics.
One of the least convincing political satires of the millennium so far - no bite, no vision and no laughs.
Political comedy morphs into attempted thriller in this confused, fitfully entertaining film.
Trust me, a sloppily-edited, unmanageable insult to the intelligence with far too many shortcomings to deserve any further analysis.
Levinson pose les bonnes questions par le biais d'une démarche artistique un peu laborieuse, mais qui n'en demeure pas moins directe et efficace.
Eschewing personality, it mistakes pandering for insight.
If you look the other way and go with it regardless, Man of the Year can be an idealistic pleasure.
It's not a simple genre film, and some will find it complicated to digest for that reason, but if you're up for a bit of intelligent stimulation, this will reward
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The usually crass and bombastic Robin Williams is so genteel and streamlined as the television news comedian turned presidential candidate. He's even a bit of a stud when Eleanor Green enters the picture. He and Laura Linney seem to have good chemistry, perhaps by virtue of Linney's not-necessarily-loving but definitely-tension-filled gaze. Her drug-induced breakdown is quite alarming, going from 0 to 60 and back with her different intonations of "I've got it. I've got it! I'VE GOT IT! ... I've got it."