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SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

uweumberath Ryan Reynolds is best known for playing the pretty boy in various Rom-Com-Movies. The good looking guy who falls in love with a good looking girl after going through a lot of trouble. Sometimes funny, sometimes romantic. But this movie gave him the chance to show a wider range of acting. Playing a psychopath is probably the most challenging role for an actor. But Reynolds did a great job in this movie playing a very strange character, that gets all your sympathy although doing terrible things. I've never felt more sympathy for a psychopath than in this movie. And his female victims (Gemma Arterton and Anna Kendick) make it even better. Very strange movie, but I love it!

jadavix "The Voices" is an odd horror-comedy type thing that isn't scary or funny or thrilling or much of anything. It's the fairly typical story about a boy-next-door who is also a mentally unstable killer. He has a crush on a beautiful office employee, played by Gemma Arterton, though another employee - Anna Kendrick - has a crush on him. His pets talk to him - a dog and a cat - and his psychiatrist, played by legendary Australian actress Jacki Weaver, has prescribed him antipsychotic medication that he refuses to take.You know that somebody's going to get killed, and then someone will find out who killed who and also get killed, and the body count will rise. The movie takes an ironic, light-hearted tone in regards to this activity; it's not a horror movie or even a thriller, really. It's also not funny at all, unless you think the sight of a talking dog and cat is amusing by default. The cat swears a fair bit, so some people might be amused by that, I guess.What is uncomfortable and unnecessary is that the movie adds a troubling backstory for the Ryan Reynolds character which doesn't fit at all with the silly tone of the movie. This is an explanation for his insanity that would fit in a gritty true-crime pic, not a deliberately ridiculous horror-comedy.The climax is also just not that interesting. It's quite predictable, like the rest of the movie, and I think they should have added something unexpected or interesting in there - aside from the awful song-and-dance number over the end credits.I'm not really sure what the makers of "The Voices" wanted to achieve with this movie. It gives the impression that they didn't know how to handle the light-hearted tone, or what the purpose of such a tone in a story like this is. The tone needs to clash with the content, but here they're both flat, they lie down and die, which is almost what the movie made me feel like doing.

DarthVoorhees I love a good dark comedy and so I was on board when I read the premise of Ryan Reynolds talking to his cat and dog about whether or not to be a serial killer. The premise works best as a dark comedy but the movie gets really depressing as it goes a lot into the character's actual suffering with schizophrenia. It becomes at different times a drama, a grisly horror film, and a cartoony surreal fantasy. I don't know. This is a really hard sell. I guess I can appreciate it's honesty in actually acknowledging schizophrenia and mental health problems but then they've sort of shot themselves in the foot as it cannot work then as a dark comedy. I don't want to laugh at schizophrenic hallucinations being portrayed as a cartoon in one scene and then seeing Reynolds with his therapist in agony in another. I think what the film should have done is start off with the comedic effect and then have it wear off as it goes into the seriousness of the situation. It doesn't. The film ends with a big dance number where Reynolds dances with Jesus and his victims.

twister To be honest, I wasn't expecting this movie to be any good based on the trailers. But given the fact that it had a good crew to work with Reynolds, Kendrick etc, I thought I might just give it a chance and I don't regret it a bit!Without giving any spoilers, the movie revolves around a likable guy who just happens to talk to his evil pets. What I found interesting about this is that it's pretty easy to empathize with the main characters because there are a lot of explanations nicely wrapped either through the voice of the main character or sweet memories.I would recommend it to people who like to watch dark comedies and are amused by the weirdness of having a head inside a fridge (without any type of real desire to kill other people of course)!