Rubber (2010)
Written & Directed by Quentin Dupieux
Starring Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick & Wings Hauser
Written & Directed by Quentin Dupieux
Starring Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick & Wings Hauser
For a movie about a killer tyre (yeah, you read that right), it wasn't anywhere near as silly or fun as it should have been, and it didn't really have the B-movie charm I was expecting. It attempts to justify its premise by saying straight off the bat that it's satirical of the fact that movies often do things "for no reason", and that life is full of "no reason", then proceeds to be as random as it possibly can. For me, it was much more an excuse for randomness rather than anything meaningful.
It markets itself as a Comedy, and it does have some funny moments. A lot of the time you just have to laugh at the complete absurdity of it. In the end, though, the sheer fact that it seems to be taking itself much more seriously than it should becomes funny in itself. Maybe that's what they were aiming for, but I was expecting the acting and writing to be so-bad-its-good in a B-movie kind of a way, and I got a bit of that, but not nearly as much as I should have. It ended up just being bad a lot of the time.
In terms of its other (supposed) genres, well, it's not dramatic and it's not scary. So take that as you will.
You certainly can't accuse Rubber of being unoriginal. But this is a prime example of originality without substance. It kind of fails at everything it actually tries to be, but comes very close to succeeding inadvertently.
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Last edited by Skepsis93; 06-23-11 at 09:50 AM.