I Heart Huckabees (Two-Disc Special Edition)

I Heart Huckabees (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by David O. Russell

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Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts
Director: David O. Russell
Producer: David O. Russell
Writer: David O. Russell
Producer: Dara Weintraub
Producer: Gregory Goodman
Producer: Michael Kuhn
Producer: Scott Rudin
Writer: Jeff Baena
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of I Heart Huckabees (Two-Disc Special Edition)

DVD Review: i heart huckabees
Summary: 5 Stars

The movie blew my mind! There are days when i want to have a detective follow me around and figure out the consequences in my life as well! A must see!

DVD Review: This stinks
Summary: 1 Stars

I watched the first 45 minutes as things grow increasingly absurd, but the more the plot struggles, the more unfunny it all seems. I didn't laugh in the slightest at anything going on here. A waste of talents, and Jason Schwartzman plays the identical character in 'The Darjeeling Limited.' Lilly Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman add zilch. A real dog.

DVD Review: Ranks with "Being John Malkovich" for weirdness.
Summary: 5 Stars

At least that's what I think. This movie is really quirky, and I love the performances of Mark Wahlberg as the fireman Tommy Corn, Naomi Watts as the Huckabees (Fu**abees!) model Dawn Campbell ("Looks like an Amish bag lady") and Jude Law as Brad Stand. Jason Schwartzman as the metaphysically troubled Albert Markovski, really delivers in his quest for answers to his existence.

The interaction between Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin (the Existential Detectives) and their patients is marvelous. The snappy dialogue is really amazing; especially when you think about the timing involved to make the scenes funny. All the actors are on top of their game. Great "existential" comedy - ethereally speaking. I never tire of this movie. Shania Twain makes a short but funny cameo appearance (has to do with an ongoing joke).

DVD Review: 1.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 2 Stars

The Bottom Line:

Aside from an amusing performance by Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabees has little to recommend it unless you enjoy fantastically pretentious movies that eschew sense-making in favor of directorial indulgence.

DVD Review: I Heart This Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

I don't like to write reviews - its work and I'm busy, but I'd like people to know about this really fun film. I love it, it's fun, it's clever and it makes you feel good. Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are great in this as a loving but bickering husband and wife team of "ontological" birthparents with differing beliefs. Mark Walberg, Jude Law and Naomi Watts are letting their hair down and not playing the usual Hollywood STARS that I too love, but in this case are putting their talents to another use - FUN! This film is especially for anyone that's had to suffer through a semester of Nietzsche or Michel Foucault. Interpretations can be endless, do they have to be so grim?

Description of I Heart Huckabees (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin lead an all-star cast including Jude Law, Naomi Watts and Mark Walhberg in this outrageous comedy from director/co-writer David O. Russell (Three Kings). Kindhearted but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of screwball "existential detectives" (Hoffman and Tomlin) to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author (Isabelle Huppert) is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing andrew's mind and body.

Billed as "an existential comedy," I Heart Huckabees is a flawed yet endearingly audacious screwball romp that dares to ponder life's biggest questions. Much of director David O. Russell's philosophical humor is dense, talky, and impenetrable, leading critic Roger Ebert to observe that "it leaves the viewer out of the loop," and suggesting that Russell's screenplay (written with his assistant, Jeff Baena) is admirably bold yet frustratingly undisciplined. Russell's ideas are big but his expression of them is frenetic, centering on the unlikely pairing of an environmentalist (Jason Schwartzman) and a firefighter (Mark Wahlberg) as they depend on existential detectives (Lily Tomlin, Dustin Hoffman) and a French nihilist (Isabelle Huppert) to make sense of their existential crises, brought on (respectively) by a two-faced chain-store executive (Jude Law) and his spokesmodel girlfriend (Naomi Watts), and the aftermath of 9/11's terrorism. No brief description can do justice to Russell's comedic conceit; you'll either be annoyed and mystified or elated and delighted by this wacky primer for coping with 21st century lunacy. Deserving of its mixed reviews, I Heart Huckabees is an audacious mess, like life itself, and accepting that is the key to enjoying both. --Jeff Shannon

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