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(I) (2004)

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5/10
Weird, which I usually like, but I just didn't particularly enjoy it.
planktonrules13 May 2008
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This is a very weird and quirky short film--the type film I'd usually enjoy. However, despite the very strange plot, this short just left me feeling a bit flat--mostly because I didn't find the film all that funny.

The film begins with a geeky momma's boy playing the Big Bad Wolf in a play. He returns home to mom and he's thrilled about his performance--and thanks her for making the costume. Later, you see the same guy with a rather domineering girlfriend and it's soon apparent the man is having a hard time deciding who he loves more--his fiancé or his mother. Personally, I would have preferred if he just told them both to get lost, but instead he breaks things off with the fiancé just before their wedding. Where this all goes next is totally bizarre and you may find you love it or hate it. I do admit, the final portion of the film WAS indeed unusual.

Overall, a super-strange film and one that was mildly interesting but that was all. I guess I just didn't get it.
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8/10
Furry Friends
NJMoon8 April 2006
I admit to not having read the Ruth Rendell story this short film is based upon. I found it as an extra on the DVD of TWISTED, a modern re-telling of OLIVER TWIST. What a treat to see two of my favorite stage stars Michael Countryman and Tony-Winner Elizabeth Franz turning in excellent performances in this mini-movie. Countryman plays a mama's boy engaged to be married, much to his seamstress mom's (Franz) dismay. Seems daddy died in a mysterious hunting accident and the house is a taxidermist's dream house. Mom sews up a wolf's suit for son's community theatre "Red Riding Hood", but the lupine skin suit somehow doesn't stay on the wardrobe rack after the final curtain. While the film is pithy and well shot, my thoughts couldn't help but turn to the recent HBO documentary on 'furries' - a subculture of folks who dress in animal suits for prurient pleasures. Perhaps that's not where the film wants us to go, but the whole affair is decidedly loopy, so why not?
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