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Critics Consensus: Well-acted if monotonous drama about a transvestite prostitute in London during the 1970s.
Critic Consensus: Well-acted if monotonous drama about a transvestite prostitute in London during the 1970s.
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The film is downright aggravating.
Breakfast on Pluto may seem a fairy tale at times (no pun intended), but this Kitten has claws.
Like Kitten and everything else about Breakfast on Pluto, it's altogether too overstated and obvious, but at least it doesn't pretend to have any significance whatsoever.
[Jordan] successfully grafts two Irish literary modes, snappy social satire and gloomy dirge.
Perhaps too audacious for some and too coy for others, Breakfast on Pluto is one of those mercurial movies where you really have no idea where it'll take you next. Like its star, it's smart, mischievous and fearless.
Held together by a brilliant fiber of obscure pop songs from the era, Breakfast on Pluto may be Jordan's most agreeable mixture of wisdom and whimsy.
Sadly, Kitten himself is the sort you'd be happy to string across a tennis racket, and the film never quite copes with his lethal insufferability.
Rambling romance about a man truely in love with himself. Cilian Murphy has great talent, but not in this loser directed by Neil Jordan. My advice to Murphy...speak up and stop mumbling.
Celebratory subversion
"Kitten" is one of the most admirable characters ever depicted on-screen.
Murphy's turn as the irrepressible Kitten is simply mesmerising - outrageous, tender and full of the sort of deep pain that no amount of make-up can conceal.
Another cross-dressing flick from Jordan, but this time with a wry sense of humour and whimsy, coupled with a fine soundtrack of UK bubblegum 70s tunes.
An orphaned transvestite navigates associations with the IRA and the search for his birth mother. Aside from the chameleon performance by Cillian Murphy as Kitten, there is very little to like about this film. The story is a very basic tale about separation and coming of age that, when it doesn't wreak of cliche, lingers on banalities. Overall, Murphy is the only reason to see the film, but even then, the rest of the film is bound to disappoint.
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Like Patrick McCabe's novel, Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto" is episodic and fragmented. I did enjoy the way Jordan moves his camera and Cillian Murphy is committed to bringing Patrick Braden to life, but it's far too little to save the film. I found this unengaging and emotionally schizophrenic, a combination that left me feeling alienated. Plus, the chapter dividers are totally unneeded in the film, it didn't work that great in the book and on film it's totally superfluous.
it's a sweet and hopeful tale about a foundling named kitten, growing up strange in an irish town that never understood him, moving to swinging london in search of his long lost mother, and having many adventures along the way. cillian murphy is wonderful as kitten, a somewhat naive character who never gives up on love. takes awhile to get going and it's a bit uneven. i can't say i don't miss the dark days of mona lisa and the crying game but it's a fun film with enjoyable pop soundtrack
I just love the completely outrageous nature of this. The narrative side of this is just such a charming and unique story. Cillian Murphy just shows what an amazing actor he is with a truly convincing and realistic (to the story) character. It also spares no expense to go sideways every once in a while to show fantasies/dreams without coming off as corny or naive.
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