Another movie with a lot of strength to become a real, genial surprise.
Everything, from the director to the main actors, and above all the Story itself that could serve us a true gem of a movie, and instead ...
What we got is an overly simplified, approssimative tale that, even if only inspired on a basilar way to the real events, doesn't give us the real depth and peculiarity it promised.
Sibilia's style is barely recognizable, it doesn't explode with that sincere surreality or dynamic way of presenting a story or characters full of surreal, but valid sense of rebellion, and ready to take the most unexpected ways to solve their problems.
But while in the surprisingly wonderful "SMETTO QUANDO VOGLIO" trilogy managed to construct in an original and specific style an adventure full of all the most important elements, from comedy to drama, to even adventure and action, here we don't feel them in the same way, or even in a bigger way, as we could've expected, given the premises.
The movie doesn't really make an effort to make us understand the real sense of Giorgio's wish for a personal utopia; for the whole time, he appears only as a child wanting everything in the most obnoxious and ridiculous way.
He is not that kind of dreamer that, despite seeing the world in his own way, make us understand the possibile truth of his ways, and the speciality of them; he's just an immature guy without a real sense of how things really work.
And that's a real shame, 'cause he could've easily become one of the most intriguing and charismatic characters seen in recent years in Cinema.
And what I really didn't like was this strange atmosphere that doesn't really build things in the right way, it simplifies so much the most relevant steps, that I started to think I was watching a Cartoon Show episode.
Really, it almost seemed something THE SIMPSONS could've written, and I'm pretty sure even better than this.
I mean, seriously, the decide to go to ONU, and ONU actually gets interested, so soon?!
And they wanna use the "Island" as a free world, and we only see them spend all the time just dancing? Where are we, in King Julien's Madagascar?
I only felt some shivers in the final 20 minutes, where they actually try doing something bolder, with the ship actually firing to scare them off, and they refusing to move away, but still it wasn't enough.
I'm really sorry to be harsh on this, but it was just a precious occasion, it really makes me just sad to see it wasted in such a ridiculous way.
Everything, from the director to the main actors, and above all the Story itself that could serve us a true gem of a movie, and instead ...
What we got is an overly simplified, approssimative tale that, even if only inspired on a basilar way to the real events, doesn't give us the real depth and peculiarity it promised.
Sibilia's style is barely recognizable, it doesn't explode with that sincere surreality or dynamic way of presenting a story or characters full of surreal, but valid sense of rebellion, and ready to take the most unexpected ways to solve their problems.
But while in the surprisingly wonderful "SMETTO QUANDO VOGLIO" trilogy managed to construct in an original and specific style an adventure full of all the most important elements, from comedy to drama, to even adventure and action, here we don't feel them in the same way, or even in a bigger way, as we could've expected, given the premises.
The movie doesn't really make an effort to make us understand the real sense of Giorgio's wish for a personal utopia; for the whole time, he appears only as a child wanting everything in the most obnoxious and ridiculous way.
He is not that kind of dreamer that, despite seeing the world in his own way, make us understand the possibile truth of his ways, and the speciality of them; he's just an immature guy without a real sense of how things really work.
And that's a real shame, 'cause he could've easily become one of the most intriguing and charismatic characters seen in recent years in Cinema.
And what I really didn't like was this strange atmosphere that doesn't really build things in the right way, it simplifies so much the most relevant steps, that I started to think I was watching a Cartoon Show episode.
Really, it almost seemed something THE SIMPSONS could've written, and I'm pretty sure even better than this.
I mean, seriously, the decide to go to ONU, and ONU actually gets interested, so soon?!
And they wanna use the "Island" as a free world, and we only see them spend all the time just dancing? Where are we, in King Julien's Madagascar?
I only felt some shivers in the final 20 minutes, where they actually try doing something bolder, with the ship actually firing to scare them off, and they refusing to move away, but still it wasn't enough.
I'm really sorry to be harsh on this, but it was just a precious occasion, it really makes me just sad to see it wasted in such a ridiculous way.
