Hail Caesar

[CBStew]

I am a fan of the Coen Brothers.  Therefore I expected this to be funnier.  Instead it is a very harsh spoof of Hollywood.  Fortunately, no one gave George Clooney the message, so he played his part for laughs.  The funniest scene features Rafe Fiennes, of all people, trying to teach a cowboy actor how to deliver his lines like a cultured, upper class Englishman.  One of the last laughs in the movie is the "work-around" that they devise to get past the problem.  Channing Tatum,  (once again "of all people")  delivers a great tap dance routine.  Scarlett Johanssen is the beautiful starlet who has the voice and vocabulary of a stevedore.  I think that we saw that in "Singing In The Rain", a better movie about Hollywood.  It is not the movie that I hoped to see. 

[Quality Start Machine]

I am a fan of the Coen Brothers.  Therefore I expected this to be funnier.  Instead it is a very harsh spoof of Hollywood.  Fortunately, no one gave George Clooney the message, so he played his part for laughs.  The funniest scene features Rafe Fiennes, of all people, trying to teach a cowboy actor how to deliver his lines like a cultured, upper class Englishman.  One of the last laughs in the movie is the "work-around" that they devise to get past the problem.  Channing Tatum,  (once again "of all people")  delivers a great tap dance routine.  Scarlett Johanssen is the beautiful starlet who has the voice and vocabulary of a stevedore.  I think that we saw that in "Singing In The Rain", a better movie about Hollywood.  It is not the movie that I hoped to see. 

This is disappointing. I figured Clooney and the Coens would just be greatness, as "O Brother" was. I guess it getting the release on Super Bowl weekend should have been the tipoff.

[Slaky]

I am a fan of the Coen Brothers.  Therefore I expected this to be funnier.  Instead it is a very harsh spoof of Hollywood.  Fortunately, no one gave George Clooney the message, so he played his part for laughs.  The funniest scene features Rafe Fiennes, of all people, trying to teach a cowboy actor how to deliver his lines like a cultured, upper class Englishman.  One of the last laughs in the movie is the "work-around" that they devise to get past the problem.  Channing Tatum,  (once again "of all people")  delivers a great tap dance routine.  Scarlett Johanssen is the beautiful starlet who has the voice and vocabulary of a stevedore.  I think that we saw that in "Singing In The Rain", a better movie about Hollywood.  It is not the movie that I hoped to see. 

This is disappointing. I figured Clooney and the Coens would just be greatness, as "O Brother" was. I guess it getting the release on Super Bowl weekend should have been the tipoff.

I heard it was very inside jokey but good if you like that kind of thing. I still plan to see it.

[Powdered Toast Man]

I am a fan of the Coen Brothers.  Therefore I expected this to be funnier.  Instead it is a very harsh spoof of Hollywood.  Fortunately, no one gave George Clooney the message, so he played his part for laughs.  The funniest scene features Rafe Fiennes, of all people, trying to teach a cowboy actor how to deliver his lines like a cultured, upper class Englishman.  One of the last laughs in the movie is the "work-around" that they devise to get past the problem.  Channing Tatum,  (once again "of all people")  delivers a great tap dance routine.  Scarlett Johanssen is the beautiful starlet who has the voice and vocabulary of a stevedore.  I think that we saw that in "Singing In The Rain", a better movie about Hollywood.  It is not the movie that I hoped to see. 

I have a Groupon that will expire soon and it's for seeing a movie at a small movie house in Nola. It's showing "Hail, Caesar!" so we will be seeing it tomorrow. I'm not disappointed in this review. It's actually kind of where I expected it.