I Heart Huckabees

Will You Heart this Movie or Hate It?

Got issues? Specifically, are you lying awake at night wondering what “it” all means? Well you might need the help of Bernard and Vivian (Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman) a not-so-sneaky detective couple who help people with their existential…issues. Whether you’re thinking outside the box, or inside the bag you’ll want to hold onto your reality for this one.

Well, gee, if I had wanted to spend 100 minutes of life confused as to whether I should be laughing or actually understanding what these people were talking about I’d go have my taxes done again and bring popcorn. I was so confused by this film I didn’t even have time to be bored and found myself even laughing about it a couple of times. Was that the point of the movie? I can’t be sure of anything anymore. I will never watch this movie again and will never suggest that anyone ever watch this movie but if you’re in the mood for some cinematic weirdness of this type I might suggest The Royal Tenenbaums or Lars and the Real Girl instead (Lars being the best of the two). Hopefully director David O. Russell does better with his Oscar nominated Silver Linings Playbook this year.

Motherly Advice: Well goodness with Medium filters it seems there is quite a lot filtered out of this one. Mainly nudity, sexual content and language. One super-duper awkward scene is left in with two fully clothed but strangely erotic acting couple in the mud. I’ll say no more on the subject but even with your filters set to Most I’d suggest skipping along this scene as soon as you see the main character running off with the author. Other than that scene you’ll see Naomi Watts in some very small clothing and lots of skin as she is the spokeswoman/model for Huckabees. With these things in mind this one is appropriate for teens 16 and older.

Danielle’- ClearPlay Expert of the Perplexed

Rated R for language and a sex scene; 107 min; Directed by David O. Russell