I just finished watching the CD of this film and at least three time was ready to turn it off . This film is like a tight rope wire act with a human pyramid on top that is constantly wobbling throughout its performance .You can't take your eyes off it yet you feel the act will not live up to the billing . The musical numbers are great confections . The sets are obviously derivative of other films and genres , but they always look like stage sets & never quite draw you in to that suspension of belief one keeps reaching for with all that quality in play . Downey was perfect , Gibson was a hoot playing against his type but still with his unique madness just below the bald head and thick glasses . The enitire cast was of the best. So much quality in one production.
The sexual content was definitely there- Very R --lurid ,phantasmagorical,amusing, credible and at the same time you felt the protagonists convoluted lust plus pain & suffering---& past life .
A tower of gret height wobbling somehow. I wanted the film makers to "pull it off " the entire gambit --If asked, I would probably say that one has to be a sinful to groove on the sum of the parts -- but not the whole. with apologies for redundancy, R J L
The sexual content was definitely there- Very R --lurid ,phantasmagorical,amusing, credible and at the same time you felt the protagonists convoluted lust plus pain & suffering---& past life .
A tower of gret height wobbling somehow. I wanted the film makers to "pull it off " the entire gambit --If asked, I would probably say that one has to be a sinful to groove on the sum of the parts -- but not the whole. with apologies for redundancy, R J L