Colossal (2017)

This movie is a discovery. Sometimes there is such a movie that is not easy to digest and you must watch again or discuss with your friends. It started out like a simple rom com around the lovely Anne Hathaway and flat goofy character Jason Sudeikis. Jason is still living in the place where they both grew up and at first it seems like your normal girl gets back to her sleepy home town and falls in love etcetera.I must say I was losing a little bit of interest at that time but then the movie changed pace and it capativated me totally. Well done Nacho Vigalondo! All characters grew in depth, Jason in particular. It is a movie about control actually. Control of yourself and others. Anne is out of control as her former boyfriend and herself say. She has no control over her alcohol use and behavior and Jason deals next to the same alcohol problem with serious anger and self issues. Such types as Jason has friends like the quiet and simple Austin Stowell and akward and always great playing Tim Blake Nelson with secrets all of his own.The bar he owns has a hidden back part which is not in use anymore and where he and his friends get drunk in. Anne opens this back part and all of this is of course a lovely metaphor for his life. There he changes drastically towards controlling everyone around him in a very abusing way. He is destroying the bar and himself with it. The swimmingpool scene with all those leaves is great by the way. Anne on the other hand is trying to take control back in her own hands and that control stuggle between all actors is very well done I think.People who just came for a comedy with monsters please go away. It is not about the monster in Korea, but in yourself. Everyone who understands and loves the underlying theme and character development, please watch movies with me!

The first few minutes of the movie were entertaining and I was really hoping for an enjoyable movie.Sadly, by the end my wife and I were stunned at just how bad this was. We had to scrape our jaws up off the floor to ponder just how this movie was ever funded. The plot goes from pleasantly goofy to awful and then ... it was just insulting. Screenwriting classes should use this script to catalog all the awful mistakes to avoid.

Come on, this is really an interesting movie about feminism and the consequences of alcoholism. I know the message sort of gets obvious at some point, but still it's a totally funny, entertaining, movie about things that matter in a very metaphoric way. 10 stars!

The premise is entertaining, and certainly original, but I feel there's a lack of a bigger picture here. What is the message and drive of this film? - Addiction? Loneliness? Insignificance? Maturity? I felt it was approaching these topics at times but never quite got there.Jason Sudeikis deserves specific mention. This is literally some of the strangest acting I have ever seen. I don't understand any of the motivations behind his character at all. Rarely funny, just bizarre and often creepy. This isn't a layered deep performance, just a confusing one.The tone is all over the place. One moment a giant monster is impersonating Pulp Fiction, the next a woman is being savagely beaten up. I would hesitantly recommend 'Colossal' based on Anne Hathaway - she is trying hard to provide some substance to the film, and almost succeeds. But expect to have many questions and zero answers.