Of the movies I’ve listed here, Magic Magic is the one I watched most recently, and therefore is freshest in my mind but is also the one I’ve processed the least. And it’s a film that takes some processing, unusual little creature that it is. Your best bet might be to have our own Matt Donato spell out for you just how strange the film is, but I would maintain that it’s still worth seeing for the following reasons.
Number one: it’s a movie that has a really great look even though it’s somewhat unconventional. Christopher Doyle (Hero, In the Mood for Love, Lady in the Water) had his hands in its cinematography, and that dude knows what he’s doing. It’s dark and menacing, and you don’t really know why until the big payoff at the end. Reasons number two and three come in the form of Michael Cera and Juno Temple. Cera almost reprises the part he played in This Is the End, except this time he’s not playing a completely absurd version of himself but a wonderfully irritating snot of a character. Temple is becoming one of my favorite young talents, playing off the naïve traits she showed us in Killer Joe and turning them into something a little bit terrifying. The way she turns the tables on her new friends in this story is something to see. If you can see it without paying theater prices, all the better.
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Published: Sep 6, 2013 05:23 pm