Mortdecai

Why so much bad press over an American movie filled with British humor? The negative reviews apparently all come from people in the united states... weirdos. I saw this movie last night; and liked it. For some reason, the children that seem to make up the American audience these days, seem to think that it's a stupid movie. Why? A few days ago, I saw Kingsman: The Secret Service, the film adaptation of a comic mini-series, and thought it was excellent. Look at the rating for Kingsman; it's way higher than this film. Yet, it seems only because Mortdecai is mostly VERY British humor; different than what yanks are used to. I'm glad I saw Mortdecai; I left the cinema feeling pleasant and entertained. Give it an honest try, it's not junk.

I just watched this movie with no expectations, but for Depp. I heard everyone here hate it and I just can't imagine why. One of my theories is that you didn't get what this movie wants to be. Entertaining. Yes, believe it or not, but is wasn't supposed to be a complicated deep movie with soft humor and a lot of subtle jokes… hell no, this movie wants to make you laugh after a long day at work and succeeds perfectly. Depp and his mustache were hilarious. And the other unique and mixed characters made this movie a great comedy. Critics are always boring, they expect a lot from something, but maybe, just maybe, they miss the point sometimes. I think this is the case. So, I recommend this film to everyone who wants to have fun, who wants to escape their routines and have a laugh. Believe me, you'll thank me.

No one said that this movie was aiming for anything else than having a good time watching it.My guess is that everybody that disliked the film never liked Inspector Clouseau for example, or Indiana Jones movies. It is fairly obvious that Clouseau and Kato are Mortdecai & Joki in this one, minus Clouseau's unshakeable trust to his police force skills.Lord Charlie never gets as cocky in front of his "team" of spouse and male servant, for nothing more than his good taste and hideous moustache that surely reminds us of his noble background and also provides some good laughs. It is his "pipe and hat", or "whip and hat", if you prefer, his trademark appearance set. It is fairly obvious that the screenwriters and director tried to reference the opening scene with Temple Of Doom. Lord Mortdecai is a kind of Indiana Jones in the art business, finding lost paintings e.t.c., minus the naive US perspective of a morally right hero. He is a British Lord after all, thus corrupted, pompous and easily sold out to the highest bidder, due to personal debts created by the excesses of luxury and pretentious/decandant aristocratic way of life. Anyway, enough with the U.S. haters, that simply don't get it. In order of an American getting it, the dialogues should have been filled with gangsta rap slang..Then and only then, the joke would be obvious. Now, with this posh dialect and witty selections of words (like using a thesaurus) they should try to understand what's been said, than just laugh with the out-of-context, expressions such as "yeah", "biatch", "sista". African Americans are still used by/for white ignorance and it seems that it is fairly impossible for Americans to get anything funny that isn't in their cultural status, even if this foreign cultural element rather aims to ridicule itself, than seriously impose on any other culture. Americans must felt offended by Charlie's visit in the US or from quotes like: "have we taken a wrong turn and arrived to a set of a pornographic film?", while they were checking in a hotel, because I just can't otherwise understand their dislike to this film. It seems that Quentin alone can't persuade the American audience of the virtues of well written dialogues with unusual vocabulary choices. Now tell me, which is more preferable: "son of a wh..re" or Charlie's line addressing one of his abusers: "your mother and father only met once and money changed hands..propably less than a 20".. David Coepp is a successful screenplay writer, and a fair director, his all star cast performs the way they should be, and are at points hilarious, the plot is fairly twisting... I just can't understand why Depp is not as good as Sparrow, or Paltrow not as good as Iron Man's Potts, or Mc Gregor not as good as Obi-Wan. You might say that only Bettany provides a performance lesser of what expected of him, but that should be rather credited to the screenplay, or the role itself, than his effort which is adequate. The soundtrack contains one of the coolest songs in a movie (Johanna feat. MIles Kane). It is simply one of the best movies for the start of 2015. In the universe of trendy sequels this movie could easily provide a franchise similar to Edward's Pink Panther for the new millenia, much more successful than the American reboot of the series (with the god Steve Martin). I wanted to rank it even higher but I considered this unfair to other movies that are interested in achieving something greater than two hours of fun. If you don't get it, don't hate it!!

Mortdecai, the movie IS actually very funny. The thing is, it's not written for U.S. audiences. Subsequently most American viewers just don't 'get it'. It's a really silly movie, but it's fun and funny and if you 'get it' you will find yourself very amused and you will laugh. It was enough for me to want to see it because Paul Bettany is in it, but add to that Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor and a small part by Jeff Goldblum and it's got a whole lot of great actors. It's a shame that people who don't understand it give it such a poor review. If you understand or have had exposure to UK style humour you will likely understand this movie. If you do "get it" you'll laugh and have a good time. It's just not made for the typical U.S. sense of humour.

what a piece of crap - 12 bucks to see this stinker - at first I thought he was having a stroke - what the hell are you trying to say? - what the hell is up with the mustache obsession? - I guess he really needed the money. Well, surprise, you've got my twelve dollars. Take the money and spend it on acting classes. I have five more lines to meet the minimum so I want to mention things that I like: rainy days and Mondays, The magic garden theme song, match game with Gene Rayburn, and let's see, anything with Ron Jeremy in it, Shields & Yarnell (yet pretty creepy), Black Sabbath especially Sabotage, Sid and Marty Krofft, The band formerly known as Flipper and Bozo.