This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.