Purely Joyful Movie!

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I saw this movie with my family a few years ago because of Depp and McGregor and we all ended up laughing the whole time and enjoying it. I'm not saying it's up for best picture or anything but it's certainly a movie you can pop in and get some laughs out of.

What's wrong with people??? This movie was hilarious from start to finish! I just don't know what some people are looking for in movies sometimes.....

This movie isn't memorable, but it was well made and funny. It's basically just a character study, which is why people are complaining about it. If it is a character study about serious subjects critics rave and call it poignant. But often times if it's a character study about a goofy person people bark and complain. It reminds me of Husdon Hawk in the late 80's which got panned and attacked, but which I also liked. Both movies are worth seeing, neither are classic, but if every worth while movie was a classic, where would classics be?

The question I kept asking myself as I watched 'Mortdecai' was who exactly was this film made for? It can't have been made for adults, the humour is far too childish and lame to be appreciated by anyone over the age of 10. However, it also couldn't have been made for anyone that young, because the story is far too convoluted and full of itself to ever be appreciated by anyone of that age. I believe this is the main problem when it comes to the complete box office failure that was this film. It appeals to no one. I'm a huge Johnny Depp fan and I could quite happily have never seen this film. I could tell from the very first trailer I ever saw that it was going to be terrible. Turns out I was right.The days of lame humour being passable are thankfully over. Unfortunately, no one told that to these film makers. Today's audiences are too desensitised and impatient for comedies where the main gag is a funny accent or an unappreciated mustache. Even kids movies are evolved past that point. That's not to say every comedy has to be full of vulgar language and be riddled with gratuitous violence. It simply has to have some edge, some intelligence and some originality to it. It's also becoming hard for films that don't have their actors improvising. This felt like a film where every line was quoted directly from the script. It's hard to get away with that in this modern world of comedy.So the comedy side of things didn't work, how about the story and the action? Sadly, they don't either. The story is ridiculously bland and seems to think it's smarter than it is. The one thing I was looking forward to going into this film was the element of mystery which I had seen tagged in the genre section of its IMDb page. I thought if nothing else I can have fun trying to guess that side of things. Even that wasn't to be though. The story was a mess. Then there were the unbelievably poor action scenes. Twice a car chase started up and I thought to myself here we go, a little action finally. However, the car chase turned out to be just two cars driving. There was zero creativity in them. No near misses, no crashes, just us listening to the characters talk while they happen to be involved in a chase. What exactly did they spend their rather large budget on for this film?The only thing really holding the whole thing together, if you could even say that he did that, was Depp. Even though his character was boring and had no good dialogue to work with, he still somehow managed to create charisma. He seems to be really struggling of late to find films that he can shine in, and it's sad because I maintain that he's one of the finest actors in Hollywood. Undoubtedly though, 'Mortdecai' was a poor career choice on his part and one that I suspect he would like to erase from his C.V. Somehow, I suspect he doesn't have to worry about being approached to do a sequel.