"Fairly good" with chunks of "boring" in between (Junebug (DVD))

Member Name: Kazgraz

Product:	Junebug (DVD)
Date:	31/07/09 (2 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Inoffensive and amusing

Disadvantages: Feels much longer than it is

On the one hand Junebug has moments of, well, not brilliance, but 'fairly good-ness'. Gentle humour, kooky characters, a lolling plot that softly lifts up ideas about relationships and family. It's inoffensive, amusing, and offers enough tid-bits to ponder (compare the three relationships and see how those that at first appear strongest may well be the least likely to succeed.)

On the other hand, this is one of those films that feels twice as long as it is and makes you feel very tired at the end. There's endless shots of nothing, with no sound and very little point. If you scrape the bottom of the analyst's barrel, you could maybe come up with 'oh, they've shown that car reversing up that long drive to show the backwards nature of the area', but really that's pushing it. You get the backwards nature of the area with all the scrotum paintings, anyway. There's no need for anything else.

So, if you took a pair of scissors to this film and cut out all the shots of empty rooms and forests, then you'd get a sort of interesting film with sort of interesting characters and a sort of interesting plot. As it is, you get a sort of interesting film with huge chunks of boring fluff. At every piece of fluff I decided the film was slow and pointless, but there were just enough sparks of fairly good-ness to stop me from disliking it.

Summary: Edit out the bland and you'd get a reasonable flick