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Happy Here and Now has a rich setting and some interesting ideas, but the story frustratingly refuses to spark to life.
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The future is quieter, emotionally subdued and grayly mysterious, at least in the small hop forward imagined by filmmaker Michael Almereyda. Dec 16, 2005
The future is quieter, emotionally subdued and grayly mysterious, at least in the small hop forward imagined by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
David Hunter
This is a droll, laid-back film noir steeped in Crescent City atmosphere and music that culminates in the colliding worlds of genuine and virtual reality. Dec 16, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5
This is a droll, laid-back film noir steeped in Crescent City atmosphere and music that culminates in the colliding worlds of genuine and virtual reality.
Kevin Thomas
Michael Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf -- where it's been gathering dust for several years. Dec 16, 2005 | Rating: 1/4
Michael Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf -- where it's been gathering dust for several years.
V.A. Musetto
Michael Almereyda's futuristic mystery isn't a complete misfire, but it does leave you with the same baffled blankness that suffuses his isolated, techno-dependent characters. Dec 16, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4
Michael Almereyda's futuristic mystery isn't a complete misfire, but it does leave you with the same baffled blankness that suffuses his isolated, techno-dependent characters.
Elizabeth Weitzman
A bit too mannered to engage. Dec 15, 2005 | Rating: 2/4
A bit too mannered to engage.
Stephen Whitty
Mourning and gloom weigh upon most of the characters in Michael Almereyda's convoluted and numbingly pretentious Happy Here and Now Dec 15, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4
Mourning and gloom weigh upon most of the characters in Michael Almereyda's convoluted and numbingly pretentious Happy Here and Now
Jan Stuart
Strange but intriguing pic about alienation from the modern-day tech world. Jan 3, 2015 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Strange but intriguing pic about alienation from the modern-day tech world.
Dennis Schwartz
Murky and humorless. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
Murky and humorless.
Doris Toumarkine
The film is resolutely committed to its affectations of deepness and meaningfulness, but all it imparts is a sense of tediousness. Feb 8, 2006 | Full Review…
The film is resolutely committed to its affectations of deepness and meaningfulness, but all it imparts is a sense of tediousness.
MaryAnn Johanson
Casts an undeniable and lingering spell for those who enjoy their cinema spiked with adventure and philosophy. Dec 16, 2005 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Casts an undeniable and lingering spell for those who enjoy their cinema spiked with adventure and philosophy.
Brent Simon
Even if you're not quite down with Almereyda's digital-age existentialism, he has impeccable taste in music. Dec 16, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4
Even if you're not quite down with Almereyda's digital-age existentialism, he has impeccable taste in music.
Ken Fox
The dialogue is much like a bull session in a college dorm room, right before the munchies set in. Dec 14, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
The dialogue is much like a bull session in a college dorm room, right before the munchies set in.
Kent Turner
[font=Century Gothic]"Happy Here and Now" starts out with Amelia(Liane Balaban) venturing to New Orleans to look for her missing sister, Muriel.(At the same time, a firefighter is agonizing over the loss of a fellow firefighter.) Bill(Clarence Williams III), a former CIA Agent, now cab driver, is helping with the search and uncovers a connection to an Eddie Mars who Muriel was communicating via the internet.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic](And what all of this has to do with Nikola Tesla, Blaise Pascal and the price of 7-Up in New Orleans, I have no idea.)[/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Happy Here and Now" begins well and ends up being totally incoherent. Basically the movie wants to be a commentary about not being able to commuicate with our fellow human beings, thus resorting to the company of computers instead. But if you want to chat with people on the internet all day long, be my guest.[/font]
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