REVIEW: I Heart Huckabees

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I loved David O. Russel's last two films. Flirting with Disaster was hilarious and Three Kings was tremendous. Unfortunately, I Heart Huckabees is a total failure. I'm not going to get into the plot other than it is about Jason Schwartzman hiring "existential detectives" Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin to help him understand a coincidence that has just happened. This sounds interesting, but it is just an excuse for the actors (Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law, Isabelle Huppert and Naomi Watts) to spout near-unintellible dialogue about molecules and how the whole universe is connected and other bullshit. This is a film made for philosophy students by philosophy students. If that's your bag, go for it. I'm sure you will have hours of stuff to talk about while you sit at a coffee bar in your black turtleneck smoking unfiltered cigarettes. For me, I wish I had rewatched Three Kings. In recent memory, I'm not sure I can remember a better cast more wasted than this one. (Please post any thoughts on this.)

And no, TB, Mark Wahlberg was not Oscar-worthy. My initial impression was correct, thank you very much.