DACrowe
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Well I just saw this today and....given the crop of movies thus far (MI3, Posiden, The Da Vinci Code, X3) aka crap that is mediocre.....
I'd say that this is the best movie of the summer thus far (I have not yet seen Cars though). It is just an enjoyable ensemble comedy that captures the briefness of artistic ahievement and a nice message of generations and differences and of course death. But it is also an old fashioned comedy that should appeal to most especially if you are a fan of Keillor's real life Prarie Home Companion (I don't listen to it often but I do hear it from time to time on some Saturday nights and it is very funny).
Just a good yarn in a very home-spun American temperment and while it is no Mash or even Short Cuts, it doesn't try to be, it is just an entertaining journey on the last night (the somewhat fictionalized but inevitable) closing of the show at the hands of greedy ignorant Texan evangelicals. It is just great fun and with a cast that includes Merryl Streep, Kevin Kline (brilliant as Keillor's Guy Noir), John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Lindsay Lohan (don't worry she is good in this actually!), Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madison and Keillor himself it is a good time (that works actually better as a mitinee IMO) at the movies.
I'd say that this is the best movie of the summer thus far (I have not yet seen Cars though). It is just an enjoyable ensemble comedy that captures the briefness of artistic ahievement and a nice message of generations and differences and of course death. But it is also an old fashioned comedy that should appeal to most especially if you are a fan of Keillor's real life Prarie Home Companion (I don't listen to it often but I do hear it from time to time on some Saturday nights and it is very funny).
Just a good yarn in a very home-spun American temperment and while it is no Mash or even Short Cuts, it doesn't try to be, it is just an entertaining journey on the last night (the somewhat fictionalized but inevitable) closing of the show at the hands of greedy ignorant Texan evangelicals. It is just great fun and with a cast that includes Merryl Streep, Kevin Kline (brilliant as Keillor's Guy Noir), John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Lindsay Lohan (don't worry she is good in this actually!), Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madison and Keillor himself it is a good time (that works actually better as a mitinee IMO) at the movies.
