I was quickly checking the TV program and noticed that a movie with Alan Rickman and Natasha Richardson had just started. So I tuned in. I was totally unprepared for what I got. A low-key comedy about... hair dressing? With a lesbian or bisexual subplot? I was bemused. Puzzled. Fascinated. This is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. It had a lot of entertainment value, but in an intelligent, highly eccentric way. It wasn't laugh-out-loud funny, but weird funny. It was intriguing. I hesitate to say it was really good, but it certainly was an experience!
The actors were all very watchable (even poor speech-impaired Josh, most of whose lines were fragmented half-sentences - the only right choice!). Bill Nighy is always a pleasure, so too for Rickman and Richardson. Rachael Leigh Cook was a beauty to behold (though I still find it difficult to dissociate her from that awful, awful piece of teen idiocy that was She's All That). Rachel Griffiths was also good. Heidi Klum was just the right type for her role (wow, didya see that fan 'do she sported towards the end?!). And the other minor characters - like the Kilburn Kutters and the Style Warriors, and the whole thing with the dead body getting a Sid Vicious hair-do - were really some of the best elements in the movie.
Importantly, this movie had a good and satisfying end. The "Total Look" outfits were *incredible*! Winter, Nefertita and... just Sandra. Fantastic, jaw-dropping efforts - which in the real world would surely be *absolutely impossible* to accomplish in 45 minutes. But by God they were stupendous-looking. (And that's coming from a long-haired guy who hasn't been to a hair-dresser since 1988 and really couldn't care less about the vacuous world of hair-dressing. Someone mentioned that the movie was about vanity - well, the setting wasn't chosen by accident, then!)
As a whole, the movie must be said to be a fine effort. I rate it 7 out of 10, which is my "good, decent movie" rating.
The actors were all very watchable (even poor speech-impaired Josh, most of whose lines were fragmented half-sentences - the only right choice!). Bill Nighy is always a pleasure, so too for Rickman and Richardson. Rachael Leigh Cook was a beauty to behold (though I still find it difficult to dissociate her from that awful, awful piece of teen idiocy that was She's All That). Rachel Griffiths was also good. Heidi Klum was just the right type for her role (wow, didya see that fan 'do she sported towards the end?!). And the other minor characters - like the Kilburn Kutters and the Style Warriors, and the whole thing with the dead body getting a Sid Vicious hair-do - were really some of the best elements in the movie.
Importantly, this movie had a good and satisfying end. The "Total Look" outfits were *incredible*! Winter, Nefertita and... just Sandra. Fantastic, jaw-dropping efforts - which in the real world would surely be *absolutely impossible* to accomplish in 45 minutes. But by God they were stupendous-looking. (And that's coming from a long-haired guy who hasn't been to a hair-dresser since 1988 and really couldn't care less about the vacuous world of hair-dressing. Someone mentioned that the movie was about vanity - well, the setting wasn't chosen by accident, then!)
As a whole, the movie must be said to be a fine effort. I rate it 7 out of 10, which is my "good, decent movie" rating.