Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Genre: Comedy
Rating: D
This was not a good movie. I have to apologize twice; once for having recommended it in the first place - even if said recommendation was somewhat of a joke to begin with - and again for having delayed this review so much. In my defence, however, the recommendation came before I'd seen the movie and the delay was due to an unplanned schedule change as the result of celebrity deaths. Not entirely excusable, but it's something.
Pete Smalls is Dead is about three friends - K.C. (Dinklage), Jack (Boone), and Pete Smalls (Roth). They each set out at some point to make it big in Hollywood, but the only one to actually be successful is Smalls - who becomes a big shot director. Jack ended up becoming an acting teacher, while K.C. owns a laundromat, is ten grand in debt, and his best friend is his dog. The film opens with Smalls' death then follows up with K.C. being attacked and his dog kidnapped (dog-napped?). K.C. has no intention of going to Smalls' funeral, until Jack offers to give him the money that he needs to get his dog back. This offer, however, is a lot more complicated than it seems, and from the funeral to the end of the movie K.C. and Jack are on this intricate journey to get the money that K.C. needs and embark on the project that Jack always believed was theirs.
The thing that sucks most about Pete Smalls is that it could have been a great movie - it should have been a great movie. There's this amazing cast, from the people with larger parts to the bit parts. There's more than a few people who I didn't really know in this, but I found that their acting ability was able to keep up with the two primary leads of Dinklage and Boone. There was also a really interesting premise behind the film, one that's fairly tried and tested, but at the same time it's being approached from a different angle. It's a movie that has all this potential but it falls short.
The problem with Pete Smalls is not the acting or the script or anything, but the fact that the movie is just too convoluted. It's too unrealistic and ridiculous. I love the characters of K.C. and Jack, but everyone else in this movie just made me go "what the...?" occasionally with an expletive or two added on to the end to it. While I did enjoy where the journey ended, the actual journey itself isn't really worth it. The movie's just too messed up, too over the top, too convoluted. There's a lot to it that is reminiscent of an old film noir, but not actually enough to make the film actually good. It's one of those films that could have been, but wasn't.
This was not a good movie. I have to apologize twice; once for having recommended it in the first place - even if said recommendation was somewhat of a joke to begin with - and again for having delayed this review so much. In my defence, however, the recommendation came before I'd seen the movie and the delay was due to an unplanned schedule change as the result of celebrity deaths. Not entirely excusable, but it's something.
Pete Smalls is Dead is about three friends - K.C. (Dinklage), Jack (Boone), and Pete Smalls (Roth). They each set out at some point to make it big in Hollywood, but the only one to actually be successful is Smalls - who becomes a big shot director. Jack ended up becoming an acting teacher, while K.C. owns a laundromat, is ten grand in debt, and his best friend is his dog. The film opens with Smalls' death then follows up with K.C. being attacked and his dog kidnapped (dog-napped?). K.C. has no intention of going to Smalls' funeral, until Jack offers to give him the money that he needs to get his dog back. This offer, however, is a lot more complicated than it seems, and from the funeral to the end of the movie K.C. and Jack are on this intricate journey to get the money that K.C. needs and embark on the project that Jack always believed was theirs.
The thing that sucks most about Pete Smalls is that it could have been a great movie - it should have been a great movie. There's this amazing cast, from the people with larger parts to the bit parts. There's more than a few people who I didn't really know in this, but I found that their acting ability was able to keep up with the two primary leads of Dinklage and Boone. There was also a really interesting premise behind the film, one that's fairly tried and tested, but at the same time it's being approached from a different angle. It's a movie that has all this potential but it falls short.
The problem with Pete Smalls is not the acting or the script or anything, but the fact that the movie is just too convoluted. It's too unrealistic and ridiculous. I love the characters of K.C. and Jack, but everyone else in this movie just made me go "what the...?" occasionally with an expletive or two added on to the end to it. While I did enjoy where the journey ended, the actual journey itself isn't really worth it. The movie's just too messed up, too over the top, too convoluted. There's a lot to it that is reminiscent of an old film noir, but not actually enough to make the film actually good. It's one of those films that could have been, but wasn't.
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