The Trotsky
Jun. 22nd, 2010 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyVerdict on The Trotsky.
Ever feel like they made a movie just for you?
Um, yeah. It has the school thing and the commie thing and the Canadian thing and it's basically adorableness incarnate. And it's, dare I say it, incredibly heartwarming, I think because it takes its politics and both the adult and teenage characters seriously, even when they're over-the-top hilarious or gawking and earnest. Now that I'm a pillar of authority, I cringe at a lot of teenage comedies that make their kid characters know-it-alls and their adult characters buffonish; this movie managed to show adults learning a lesson from the kids in their lives while still making the kids awkward and flawed and showing experience and history to also be valuable.
And Ben Mulroney's cameo had me in stitches. I'd finished my drink by then or it would have been coming out my nose.
I want to show this to all my kids, yes.
Ever feel like they made a movie just for you?
Um, yeah. It has the school thing and the commie thing and the Canadian thing and it's basically adorableness incarnate. And it's, dare I say it, incredibly heartwarming, I think because it takes its politics and both the adult and teenage characters seriously, even when they're over-the-top hilarious or gawking and earnest. Now that I'm a pillar of authority, I cringe at a lot of teenage comedies that make their kid characters know-it-alls and their adult characters buffonish; this movie managed to show adults learning a lesson from the kids in their lives while still making the kids awkward and flawed and showing experience and history to also be valuable.
And Ben Mulroney's cameo had me in stitches. I'd finished my drink by then or it would have been coming out my nose.
I want to show this to all my kids, yes.
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Date: 2010-06-23 03:40 am (UTC)I read a bad review on Rabble but ended up liking it a lot too.
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