07-25-2009, 02:07 PM
It's a funny premise for sure, but the film is ponderously slow. The BMJ, in his normal form, wallows in self pity for long, extended-shot scenes, reacting to questions from a faux documentary. He tries too much to act like Stephan Chow. The monster fights are all CGI and it's that weird waxy-faced stuff they used for Polar Express complicated by BMJ's Erasehead hairdo. Those scenes are entertaining, but way too few and far in between. If you just watch those scenes, you got a good 10-15 minutes of entertainment. The rest you can toss. The ending is obtuse in an almost French film sort of way - they reached for something, almost caught it, and then plummetted to a miserably boring death.
BMJ was utterly disappointing.
BMJ was utterly disappointing.
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