The basic thing that's wrong with this movie is that it's too much of a good thing, and they don't know when to shut up.
It's not so much a plot which moves ahead scene by scene, but a series of sketches plonked next to each other in the hope that a coherent storyline will emerge.
Many of the sketches are very funny. There are some great pieces of observational comedy: you can always get a good laugh out of having a naif confront the idiocy of modern urban life.
But they milk every sketch until it's dry. If they'd cut 60 seconds off each one, the whole thing would have been a great deal tighter.
It's all very well done, but if they'd done a bit less, it would have been a lot more entertaining.
It's not so much a plot which moves ahead scene by scene, but a series of sketches plonked next to each other in the hope that a coherent storyline will emerge.
Many of the sketches are very funny. There are some great pieces of observational comedy: you can always get a good laugh out of having a naif confront the idiocy of modern urban life.
But they milk every sketch until it's dry. If they'd cut 60 seconds off each one, the whole thing would have been a great deal tighter.
It's all very well done, but if they'd done a bit less, it would have been a lot more entertaining.