01-09-2023, 08:25 AM
For a time last year, I thought The Menu and Triangle of Sadness were the same movie. It puzzled me that there were trailers for the same movie under two diifferent titles. I figured they were just shopping for the better title, and letting viewers decide.
As so often happens, I was mistaken. They are very different movies, and The Menu is a hard pass. It doesn't contain characters so much as caricatures of characters. And they're heavily manipulated by the director to get the desired result. I was jarred out of the movie so many times by characters behaving out of character. Anya Taylor-Joy might be the only possible exception. But even she and her eyes have a hard time rising above this muddled mess.
It's like watching a magician's act where the entire audience is shills. And it's a bad act to boot.
My stamp of disapproval.
As so often happens, I was mistaken. They are very different movies, and The Menu is a hard pass. It doesn't contain characters so much as caricatures of characters. And they're heavily manipulated by the director to get the desired result. I was jarred out of the movie so many times by characters behaving out of character. Anya Taylor-Joy might be the only possible exception. But even she and her eyes have a hard time rising above this muddled mess.
It's like watching a magician's act where the entire audience is shills. And it's a bad act to boot.
My stamp of disapproval.
