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Nov 1, 2008, 08:45 AM
I loved this film! Go and see it. It is not at all like the US reviews say it is. It has some good UK reviews so it seems likely it is too close to the mark for some US magazines to endure. They obvioulsy want the film buried but go and see it and ignore the negative reviews as boy have they panned it, some not even giving it a vote out of 10!!!.
Apparently its based on the authors experinces at Vanity fair in New York...
The Times (UK) newspaper gives it 4 out of 5 whereas US magazines and Newspapers barely give it 1.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article4867613.ece
Thou Protestesth Too Much, me thinks.
I was expecting bad things after reading the Metacritic ratings but we had already booked our Goldclass tickets so had to go,
Went in expecting to be able to go to sleep but honestly what an enjoyable film. It was funny, yes some slapstick but overall Simon Pegg was very convincing. I haven't read the book but will get it now.
It's basically about insincerity in the media magazine industry and does not put US journalists in a particularly good light. A telling scene at a party when Pegg's charachter says that in the UK they keep journos out of these A list type parties whereas in the US the celebs gush all over the journalists almost begging them to write a story on them. Pegg sees a once acclaimed actress get shunned dismissively by his creepy boss whereas he asks for her autograph and says he is honoured to meet her.
In the end he saw the light and got out.
I would say go and see it and don't let these creepy journalists stop you watching a film which exposes them for the hypocrites we despise and know them to be.
The Guardians review ends
"It's silly but mostly entertaining, and Pegg's open, expressive face is always funny. Perhaps without entirely realising it, the movie provides a through-the-looking-glass satirical version of Ugly Betty and The Devil Wears Prada. An ugly-duckling female employee whose gauche life is transformed by this super-glam world may obviously be romantic and sympathetic. A male version, on the other hand, with a male, grey-haired Miranda Priestly figure cracking wise and cracking the whip over a male employee who is striving snippily to get ahead in the very system he affects to despise ... well, that's just uncomfortable, yet truer to life. There are broad comedy moments - Sidney manages to kill the lapdog belonging to the babelicious star with whom he is trying to ingratiate himself - and some horribly real moments of socio-professional embarrassment. Enjoyable, in its neurotic fashion."
Apparently its based on the authors experinces at Vanity fair in New York...
The Times (UK) newspaper gives it 4 out of 5 whereas US magazines and Newspapers barely give it 1.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article4867613.ece
Thou Protestesth Too Much, me thinks.
I was expecting bad things after reading the Metacritic ratings but we had already booked our Goldclass tickets so had to go,
Went in expecting to be able to go to sleep but honestly what an enjoyable film. It was funny, yes some slapstick but overall Simon Pegg was very convincing. I haven't read the book but will get it now.
It's basically about insincerity in the media magazine industry and does not put US journalists in a particularly good light. A telling scene at a party when Pegg's charachter says that in the UK they keep journos out of these A list type parties whereas in the US the celebs gush all over the journalists almost begging them to write a story on them. Pegg sees a once acclaimed actress get shunned dismissively by his creepy boss whereas he asks for her autograph and says he is honoured to meet her.
In the end he saw the light and got out.
I would say go and see it and don't let these creepy journalists stop you watching a film which exposes them for the hypocrites we despise and know them to be.
The Guardians review ends
"It's silly but mostly entertaining, and Pegg's open, expressive face is always funny. Perhaps without entirely realising it, the movie provides a through-the-looking-glass satirical version of Ugly Betty and The Devil Wears Prada. An ugly-duckling female employee whose gauche life is transformed by this super-glam world may obviously be romantic and sympathetic. A male version, on the other hand, with a male, grey-haired Miranda Priestly figure cracking wise and cracking the whip over a male employee who is striving snippily to get ahead in the very system he affects to despise ... well, that's just uncomfortable, yet truer to life. There are broad comedy moments - Sidney manages to kill the lapdog belonging to the babelicious star with whom he is trying to ingratiate himself - and some horribly real moments of socio-professional embarrassment. Enjoyable, in its neurotic fashion."
