Refreshingly original and dark, as well as very, very funny. Reynolds is wonderful, the use of music is excellent, Anna Kendrick is too adorable to actually exist in the real world, and the film is beautifully shot. Throw in the best 'what the hell?' ending since Enemy and you have a winner.
Probably too glib a treatment of mental illness, but light and fun. Anna Kendrick is sweet and perfect, as she usually is. I didn't like the ending; it's like the director couldn't figure out how to resolve the plot, so she decided not to.
A lot darker than I was expecting. It was a difficult line to walk between being funny and portraying such bleak and disturbing material without trivialising it. There were times when it seemed to be working but I think the comedy elements mostly don't work and it ends up being weird and uncomfortable. I like the performances a lot, but I feel this falls into the realm of noble failure.
This might just be the most fucked up movie i've ever seen. It's well acted, funny, original but a complete headfuck and definitely not for the squeamish (several people in the theatre walked out)
If there is a hell then i'm pretty sure it involves watching this movie playing on a loop for eternity while being force fed copious amount of lsd.
I'm not entirely sure what to think of The Voices. It's original and well-directed, but its turn into the darkest of comedy is grotesque and ugly. Ryan Reynolds gives a cracker of a performance, not quite convinced that his pets are really talking to him, but compelled by madness to lean into the delusion, but then he uncontrollably kills someone and this Dr. Dolittle is on a different path entirely. Now if the film wasn't trying to make the character sympathetic with all the tools at its disposal and if he wasn't specifically killing women (forgiving women, according to the voices they're handed after death), I'd be more inclined to enjoy it. Knowing this was made by a female director (Persepolis' Marjane Satrapi) takes some of the sting out of it, but if a satirical filter is in place, it's just out of my reach. So The Voices is original, but off-putting. (Delusions, unless ambiguously proven true in at least one scene, should not afford a film the "fantasy" label, but that's not really the movie's fault.)
It takes mastery of a lot of crafts to make justified jumps between funny and terrifying, fantastical and real, casual and serious in the manner it did; and still get a coherent, entertaining and tasteful whole.
I liked this film a lot but I'm a huge Ryan Reynolds fan and I think he MADE this film!!!
The ending could have been better as it makes no sense whatsoever but it made me smile!
Spoiler * love how the cat and dog are like the devil and angel on his shoulder *
This movie thinks it's hilarious. The other comments here say it's refreshing and original but it is no such thing. The jokes are hackneyed, it is not well acted (especially the voice acting), the direction, lighting, script , editing and sound are awful. I like dark. I like dark comedies. But this film is essentially a bad Taxi Driver rip off, mixed together with Cats and Dogs (we all know how miserable that movie is) and it wishes every day that it was Tucker and Dale Very Evil. Cabin in the Woods was a clever, refreshing, dark comedy horror film. This on the other hand can only be described as wretched.
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lachyas
Refreshingly original and dark, as well as very, very funny. Reynolds is wonderful, the use of music is excellent, Anna Kendrick is too adorable to actually exist in the real world, and the film is beautifully shot. Throw in the best 'what the hell?' ending since Enemy and you have a winner.Duke of Omnium
Probably too glib a treatment of mental illness, but light and fun. Anna Kendrick is sweet and perfect, as she usually is. I didn't like the ending; it's like the director couldn't figure out how to resolve the plot, so she decided not to.ChrisReynolds
A lot darker than I was expecting. It was a difficult line to walk between being funny and portraying such bleak and disturbing material without trivialising it. There were times when it seemed to be working but I think the comedy elements mostly don't work and it ends up being weird and uncomfortable. I like the performances a lot, but I feel this falls into the realm of noble failure.The_Comatorium
Whacked out but I liked it.MrDoog
This might just be the most fucked up movie i've ever seen. It's well acted, funny, original but a complete headfuck and definitely not for the squeamish (several people in the theatre walked out)If there is a hell then i'm pretty sure it involves watching this movie playing on a loop for eternity while being force fed copious amount of lsd.
Siskoid
I'm not entirely sure what to think of The Voices. It's original and well-directed, but its turn into the darkest of comedy is grotesque and ugly. Ryan Reynolds gives a cracker of a performance, not quite convinced that his pets are really talking to him, but compelled by madness to lean into the delusion, but then he uncontrollably kills someone and this Dr. Dolittle is on a different path entirely. Now if the film wasn't trying to make the character sympathetic with all the tools at its disposal and if he wasn't specifically killing women (forgiving women, according to the voices they're handed after death), I'd be more inclined to enjoy it. Knowing this was made by a female director (Persepolis' Marjane Satrapi) takes some of the sting out of it, but if a satirical filter is in place, it's just out of my reach. So The Voices is original, but off-putting. (Delusions, unless ambiguously proven true in at least one scene, should not afford a film the "fantasy" label, but that's not really the movie's fault.)252
It takes mastery of a lot of crafts to make justified jumps between funny and terrifying, fantastical and real, casual and serious in the manner it did; and still get a coherent, entertaining and tasteful whole.dippygirl78
I liked this film a lot but I'm a huge Ryan Reynolds fan and I think he MADE this film!!!The ending could have been better as it makes no sense whatsoever but it made me smile!
Spoiler * love how the cat and dog are like the devil and angel on his shoulder *
Cthulhu1
Brilliant.anthemforadoomed
This movie thinks it's hilarious. The other comments here say it's refreshing and original but it is no such thing. The jokes are hackneyed, it is not well acted (especially the voice acting), the direction, lighting, script , editing and sound are awful. I like dark. I like dark comedies. But this film is essentially a bad Taxi Driver rip off, mixed together with Cats and Dogs (we all know how miserable that movie is) and it wishes every day that it was Tucker and Dale Very Evil. Cabin in the Woods was a clever, refreshing, dark comedy horror film. This on the other hand can only be described as wretched.