Bo Huang’s “The Island” makes one thing abundantly clear: Mainstream American comedies are playing things way too safe when compared to the rest of the world. The overstuffed, underwritten, swing-for-the-fences kind of farce is already a massive hit in its native China (after just two weeks in release it’s now the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year), and no disrespect to delightful Hollywood offerings like “Blockers” — or even semi-decent attempts like “I Feel Pretty” — but it’s basically impossible to imagine a major domestic studio releasing anything like this.
“The Island” is a 132-minute comedy that opens with a massive special effects sequence before segueing into a frenzied social commentary that’s part “Lost,” part Stanford Prison Experiment, and part college philosophy course. Oh, and the movie also makes room for a love story, a meteorite, and a long scene where people get kicked in the groin in slow-motion...
“The Island” is a 132-minute comedy that opens with a massive special effects sequence before segueing into a frenzied social commentary that’s part “Lost,” part Stanford Prison Experiment, and part college philosophy course. Oh, and the movie also makes room for a love story, a meteorite, and a long scene where people get kicked in the groin in slow-motion...
- 8/24/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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