Lack of good storyline.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Dick Dandelion (Jamie Bell) lives in an American mining town. He's a new miner and works in the general store. He buys a toy gun from introverted Susan (Alison Pill). It turns out to be a real gun. He recruits the town's outcasts to form a gun club calling themselves The Dandies. He has his version of pacifism with particular rules. Krugsby (Bill Pullman) is the sheriff.Directed by Thomas Vinterberg and written by Lars von Trier, this has a surreal unreality. I didn't make the connection to Lars von Trier's Dogville when I first saw this. I almost prefer Dogville's outlandish surrealism. This felt annoyingly fake. The voice-overs leave me cold. There is a wrongness that I couldn't comprehend. Even with new eyes, the fakeness strikes me wrong. Of course, there is a point but it could have been more compelling to give it better truths.

I found this film like a year ago or so and mostly I wanted to watch it just because Lars von Trier wrote it. I'm not his biggest fan (and I hate the way he treats actresses) but by then I had just watched Manderlay (a film that I loved) and Dear Wendy looked extremely interesting, even with the title that it has in my country (it is called "Calles Peligrosas", that means something like "Dangerous Streets", and for a fact the terrific Martin Scorsese 1973 film Mean Streets has the exact same title in my country!). Anyway, like a year ago I saw it and I really liked it, yesterday I saw it again and I still liked it a lot, I think even more. First of all it is quite entertaining and even exiting since it features the creation of something new that for their creators is the way to spend their days and with that the way to live. Is like a very known subject, the fact that some persons in the same "situation" find in their club a new world that nobody else will understand. However this is a work of Lars von Trier and yes it can be seen as the bastard project of his "USA: Land of Opportunity" trilogy. Here we have Dick (Jamie Bell) as the main character. In the town where he lives if you don't work at the mine you will be seeing as a loser. Dick is alone but soon he will find a friend, a friend that will make closer his relationship with Stevie (Mark Webber) and later with some others that, like him, feel that they are losers. That mentioned friend is a gun and Dick will call it Wendy. Dick bought it thinking that it was a toy gun and not even for him, he is a pacifist, but as a present for a boy who was not his fried at all. Call it destiny or whatever but that gun never left Dick and eventually he found that was not a toy, it was one of the things that make the world an evil place, one of those that he hated. Everything started mostly just like a game for two friends, a secret game that soon became like the thing they were waiting all the day for. They became experts on the subject and with the "power" of knowing that they were carrying a gun they felt happiness and since they were so damn generous and were concern about others like them they decided to share their experiences with other three persons (Chris Owen, Alison Pill and Michael Angarano) to be now The Dandies. Pacifists in love with guns, well that's what this film shows, a bunch of young and intelligent persons that became even brilliant in what they were doing, these persons were living in their own little world with their own rules and rituals and since they were pacifists everything seems to be just a game and seems that these kids knew what they were doing. Eventually they will be part again of the world with the character Sebastian (Danso Gordon). Sebastian killed a person and needs to have like a guard so the office Krugsby (Bill Pullman) give that "mission" to Dick. Is quite interesting since Sebastian is an unarmed criminal who wants a cure. Dick and pals are armed decent persons and here we have the classic fight in order to be the leader with both Dick and Sebastian but finally the important issue is the fact that in the end there's a fight with everyone armed. The Dandies wanted a good thing but they were armed and violence makes only more violence. Sure in their world they had their own believes and sure they were pacifist but everything was turned around the guns so is the time of the season for loving...A very strange photography and great performances; I hated Billy Eliot but here Bell is great as the main role as that lonely kid that began having even an obsession, a madness that after all ended in the only possible way he would like to and that resume everything, what a gun could made in him, in his mind. Dear Wendy is definitely an overlooked little gem that I would like to recommend. And the Zombies all around with She's Not There and Time of the Seasons obviously. Fantastic!Well no one told me about her the way she lied Well no one told me about her how many people cried But it's too late to say you're sorry How would I know why should I care Please don't bother trying' to find her She's not thereWell let me tell you 'bout the way she looked The way she'd act and the colour of her hair Her voice was soft and cool Her eyes were clear and bright But she's not thereWell no one told me about her, what could I do Well no one told me about her, though they all knew But it's too late to say you're sorry How would I know, why should I care Please don't bother trying' to find her She's not there

There is something very fundamental that shouldn't go wrong in a film, and that is the so-called "suspension of disbelief". When you sit watching a film and can't keep yourself from thinking that it's all just a film with actors saying their lines on a film set, then it's obviously gone wrong. And that's the very thing that happens to "Dear Wendy". It's a cleverly thought-out, well conceived plan, but it doesn't come to life. The characters feel two-dimensional all the way through, I didn't care for any of them, so I just kept watching from the outside, which felt a bit like looking at fish in an aquarium. Furthermore, the story is painfully predictable - once people take a gun in their hands, it's always an easy guess to tell what will happen in the end, and so it does. Cinematography and everything is good as usual, but cinematography and everything never made a boring film good. "Festen" was such a great, deep, human film - where did the guy go who made it?

I'm sorry but this has been going on for way too long this is probably one of the most boring movies i have ever seen and with that being said its one of the worst which brings me to this, are there really towns that boring in the us?if there is than under any circumstances a director with an ounce of intelligence should not choose such a place as a location for a movie unless it's a horror movie or a heart warming movie, but this is just turd seriously a warning should be put on movies like these "R RATED FOR EXTREME BORE" i would advise people not to watch it and people living in towns like this to write to their senators and ask for a youth club or activities for the kids so that they don't get bored out of their minds on go on killing sprees and thank you.