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Is
Rehab a good subject for a funny Movie ?
No,
I didn't think so either. From what I've heard isn't rehab
supposed to be complete and utter hell? Why then in this Movie
does the time people spend their sound like a complete picnic?
Sandra
Bullock plays a character called Gwen Cummings whose drinking
starts to go beyond what most of us would call acceptable,
and she starts to lose control. Both of her drinking and drug
usage and this is manifested when she trashes her sister's
wedding by crashing one of the wedding cars into a house.
Court
gives her two choices. Jail or Rehab , guess which one she
takes? Yes of course she takes the rehab route, who wouldn't.
This is one of the things the Movie gets right, rehab is not
supposed to be the soft route and her councillor at Rehab
(Steve Buscemi) soon puts her right on that.
But
this is Hollywood so naturally she tries to buck the system
in rehab. But regrettably at this point in the Movie things
turn very dull indeed.
In
a Movie such as this shouldn't the characters be well written
and fleshed out? No such luck , apart from Sandra Bullock
they are little more than one note ideas.
Very
little information is given about Gwens past either, yes we
are told she is a writer but little information beyond that.
Surely who a person is/was is important so that we can identify/believe
in the character more ?
The
last scene in the Movie is also extremely silly as well, and
to be honest I am not even going to waste words describing
just how silly it is.
Suffice to say that it sums the Movie up in a nutshell. For
a Movie about such a dramatic subject is it not a shame that
they treat the subject in such a frivoulous manner?
To
be honest if you are a Sandra Bullock fan then you will probably
enjoy this Movie, but if you haven't already warmed to her
charms then don't bother as this Movie won't provide any new
reasons to be won over.
Tall
Guy
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