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Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Although many of the jokes have been done before, Anna Faris's bright performance and Gregg Araki's sharp direction make Smiley Face more than your average stoner comedy.
Theatrical Release:Nov 16, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Jane F., an unsuccessful slacker actress, is having a bad day. And it’s getting more outrageous and comically surreal by the minute. Smiley Face is a freewheeling, cinematically stylized After... [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Adam Brody, John Krasinski, Danny Masterson
Director: Gregg Araki
It's a fittingly loose, shambling little nothing of a comedy that's occasionally inspired, but at least a draft or two short of its potential. Still, it's a pleasure to watch Faris wander slack-jawed through a surreal day in Los Angeles.
With a madcap script by Dylan Haggerty and a bubbly and inventive performance from Anna Faris, as well as a succinct running time, Smiley Face manages to sustain itself, and only the hard-hearted and humorless would feel that it overstays its welcome.
The jokes have been done before and better. It's incredibly tedious.
The storyline is slight and the film succeeds only because of Faris's performance.
Anna Faris is alternately hilarious and annoying in this stoner comedy.
A tedious, empty-headed stoner film focusing on a female pothead, who's limited to one facial expression and lines such as "I'm totally vibing on you, dude," has arrived just in time to greet the New Year. Santa must have thought we were very, very bad.
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Anna Faris is radiantly daft; she keeps the movie going all by herself.
This is a full-force, all-purpose performance by Faris with the kind of grace that would get winks from the likes of silent screen greats.
Viewers who like midnight movies will be disappointed by this trifle.
Faris gamely goes Garbo and Lombard one better, taking her cute little firecracker looks and being willing to go full-out to appear appropriately, hilariously awful when the story calls for it.
A decent diversion for those who are into comedies that are different than your standard fare. The visuals are great, the comedy is new and refreshing.
amusingly off-kilter
Maybe this is funny if you're actually stoned. When taken sober, not so much.
A pure, mostly dumb comedy, it's the tale of one impossibly out-of-it girl, Anna Faris' Jane F., who spends her day stumbling from mishap to mishap in an effort to avoid her drug dealer's wrath.
It’s a blast.
A limp, unfunny time-waster.
A fast-moving, surprisingly varied take on a pretty standard concept: It’s basically Martin Scorsese’s After Hours Lite, as told by Cheech and Chong.
Smiley Face belongs to Faris, an actress who is some kind of treasure.
An unabashed valentine to Anna Faris, an opportunity for the actress to show that she can carry a movie composed of often hilarious nonstop misadventures.
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