A movie that couldn't seem to make up it's mind what it was. I still have no idea what message they were trying to convey, other than be a remake that could have worked as a comedy if they had half a clue what they were doing.
Extremely amateurish, save your brain and keep well away.
I saw this movie at the theater back in '04, and thoroughly enjoyed it... one man's "mess" is another person's delight!
... the hardest thing in this world is to live in it...
It's not that bad, I don't know what you found confusing.
The only thing I thought was weird was they had a Joanna body already, I thought they just implanted the chips. What was the body for?
alrigthy, after reading the trivia section the body was apparently there for the brain to be transplanted in it and dispose of Joanna's real body. They deleted this due to poor acceptance by the audience....no wonder it's freaking confusing, they catered to the test audiences.
shareHad to turn it off. Now I know why I never considered it.... Those one liners were painful. Awful!!!!
shareCouldn't agree more.
Is this a comedy? A thriller? A sci-fi piece?
So many of the jokes are just plain STUPID!!!
Paul Rudnick was (yes - PAST TENSE as far as his career is concerned) a writer of campy gay theater comedies.
Here, that kind of writing doesn't work at all.
I had the unfortunate experience of listening to Frank Oz' commentary on the DVD: it's obvious the script was in no shape to be made into a movie - nor was Oz "Great" when it came to making movies or, indeed, fixing them when the script sucked. Oz keeps mentioning that they had to edit out jokes to keep the storyline moving - obviously Rudnick was just letting all his creative juices flow like diarrhea at the expense of the story (whatever the hell story he was trying to tell).
As far as plot goes, Oz also explains that they had to change the ending (more than once?) to get to an "audience-pleasing" conclusion. Well, if Rudnick couldn't write an appropriate ending for a movie, what does THAT tell you?
How this POS ever got greenlighted is one for the ages (methinks some form of film fellatio occurred - but whether it was Scott Rudin going down on Paul Rudnick or vice versa, I honestly don't want to know).
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"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"