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I Heart Huckabees (7/10)

March 17th, 2005

Ok, I am soooo overdue on movie reviews, so unfortunately, these next 4 might be lacking in quality and length.

I Heart Huckabees was an interesting movie that kept me pretty entertained, although I felt lost at times with all of the metaphysics mumbo-jumbo. The movie is about a young man, Albert (Jason Schwartzman, who is awesome), who hires a pair of existential detectives (Lilly Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman) to solve the mystery of some strange, coincidental meetings he had with a tall African man. And that’s where to movie starts to get weird. Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law and Naomi Watts also star in the movie as having a connection to Albert’s coincidence and each have great performances.

I thought the movie’s content was really strange and sometimes hard to digest, but I think that’s part of what makes it entertaining. You aren’t just given some dialogue to listen to, but instead have to think about what has just been said. Also, the performances by the cast and the direction that was given was very well done. The movie starts out very silly, but starts getting a little serious towards the end, and that’s when the actors shine - especially Jude Law.

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