One Word Movie

One Man and His Pun

A new entry in the neglected Patagonian Road Movie with Dog genre. The main character's a sacked garage attendant, so meek you're in danger of thinking he's a hallucination. The guy who plays him, Juan Villegas, isn't a professional actor, apparently he's the bloke who parked the director's car for ten years.

He's given a big white non-fluffy dog that never seems to poo, and his life improves no end. He's got something special, and people are interested in that. You can see it's a very new sensation for him. There is the flimsiest of narrative development, then the film ends, and you leave the cinema wondering whether you shouldn't have seen Kung Fu Hustle instead.

This isn't a bad film, it's relentlessly slight and charming, like a beautiful packet of expensive crisps, handcut by sushi chefs, which cost about a pound fifty, but when you open the packet you find there's only six Christing crisps in there. In the end you want MORE. I'm afraid I can't give this film a good rating so that qualifies it as shit.

posted by Chairman Peyote @ 10:50 PM