Please don't spend money on this.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

As an introduction, 'Playtime' blew me away with its level of stupidity. It was an episodic comedy set in Paris written and directed by Jacques Tati.To carry on, the script had very little dialogue from the characters. There was more movements than talking. It empathised that the movie was hilarious enough. The sequences built up as much stupidity as what you can ever imagine. Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. The character Hulot is an old man who has no idea what he is doing. He entered an office building in Paris acting like he had to attend an important meeting with investors. What is more, Monsieur strangely walked into a high-tech supermarket, purchasing products and getting lost at the same time. Then he rounds up in a stranger's living-room. To top it all up, he dines in a club restaurant with hundreds of American tourists which is still under construction. I call that MAD.In addition, the Paris was a fantastic location to shoot this buncos movie, because of the city's architecture. Viewing a recording of the tall glass buildings and the club-restaurant were beautiful. The French fabulous fashion was also exposed on the movie camera. This included sharp suits, colourful scarfs, shiny shoes and many more made out of fine fabrics. Watching classic cars drive on the urban streets was wonderful. All thanks to the creative designs of the vehicles. All of this went hand in hand with Jean Badal and Andréas Winding cinematography. The artists lighting created a powerful contrast between light and shade.As a conclusion, the motion picture was a masterpiece. This is why I give it an 8/10.

There are films that unless seen and reviewed within (ideally) days or at worst weeks of their opening achieve a notoriety that makes it difficult to view them with an open mind at a later date. Greed and Heaven's Gate spring to mind, decades apart yet both the subject of reams of reportage for unacceptable length and exceeding the original budget by two, three, or even fourfold. Playtime belongs to this select group if only because Tati shared the ambitious scope of von Stroheim and Cimino and was eventually forced to sell the rights to his earlier triumphs, Jour de fete, M. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, etc for peanuts in order to stave off bankruptcy. In addition the smart money says that if viewed in any format other than the 70mm which Tati intended you may as well not watch it all. So with all this baggage I finally watched it almost a half century after its initial release. Where words like satirical have been utilised I would say quirky. Clearly Tati was embittered at 'modern' (which to him was the 1960s) life and the massive inroads being made by technology - think what film he would make today on that subject - and addressed his concerns on celluloid. Whilst I applaud his vision and ambition my admiration outweighed my enjoyment something like sixty-forty.

Wow! I've never seen this. It's just amazing. I'm taking days to see it to savor it, just having a little each night for a simple dinner and Tennessee Whiskey.This is my favorite type of film.Does anyone know if Robert Altman and this director had any links?I feel like I'm watching Short Cuts.I want to see this in the original Cinerama Dome of Hollywood.I just don't understand the line requirement. I love this movie and will just try to send a good night, and I love you all who come to International Movie Data Based dot com.Love Brent Kliss

It took me awhile but here is finally a Jacques Tati that I honestly enjoyed watching and appreciated. I have not be very kind before for any of his movies because they were subtle comedies that were just being too subtle and therefore worked out as slow and boring ones for me, that just weren't very funny at all.This movie is basically just like Jacques Tati's other work as well, which means that it has lots of slapstick humor but is being a real subtle one as well. It often takes its time to set up its humor, meaning that some sequences really go on for a long time. However in this case this movie does everything much better and way more effective, comedy-wise, making this a very pleasant and amusing movie to watch.Just like especially Jacques Tati's previous movie "Mon oncle", this movie seems to criticize a lot and is often being a social satire. This time this as well works out better in this movie than in any of his other ones. In "Mon oncle" and in this movie he both makes fun of modern technology, with as a big difference that the technology used in this movie is actually something that really existed and got used. It therefore works out for better and more effective as a satire. The movie is also really kicking against the modern world in general. Architecture, technology, tourism, people's behavior, nothing is safe from Jacques Tati's satire. It seems a bit ridicules, all of the things that Tati's is criticizing with his movie, since you can't really say that all of those changes that were brought into the modern, technological filled world, were all for the worse. But anyway, it all works rather amusing for this movie.It's actually being one of Jacques Tati's longest movies but yet it's far from his most boring one. Even though the movie is still often slowly paced, there is always something real good happening. The timing and running gags in this movie all work out really well and it's humor is really what keeps this movie going.There really isn't a story in this. It's not a point of criticism though, since the movie is simply not about having a story in it. The way the entire movie flows and progresses doesn't always even make much sense once you really start to focus on it. I actually quite like this movie for not having a story in it. It makes the humor and the entire madness of the movie work out all the better really.And the movie can get real crazy at times. The end sequences in the restaurant in which all of the guest and employees are slightly starting to loose it and start misbehaving themselves more and more is absolutely great and a wonderful finale for the movie. It really goes on for a long time and gets build up wonderfully. It all starts out slow and normal but then the one guest enters and the other and another and more problems start to arise. Really, this sequence alone is more than enough reason to watch this movie. But by saying this I feel that I don't give the rest of the movie enough credit as well. It's filled with some wonderful fun moments and great comedy timing and overall execution of it all.It besides is a beautiful looking one as well. It's a movie that got set mostly deliberately indoors. I don't know how much was set and how much was real but either way it's all wonderful looking. The movie has a bit of surreal feel and atmospheric vibe to it all, which I really liked.A Monsieur Hulot movie that I really enjoyed.8/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/