Friday, March 21, 2008

August Rush


1.5 out of 5 Stars
This movie greatly annoyed me. Okay, rockstar has one night stand with classical cello player -- movie could have ended there -- but *no*, dude gets all crazy about the girl and girl's dad is all judgemental. Even that could have been a (not very believable) story. But it gets worse -- girl gets hit by car and dad lies to her about losing her one night stand baby. And eventhough the dude is wealthy, baby ends up in some 'Oliver' or 'Annie' or 'Cider House Rules' type orphanage. Riiight. Oh, and because his parents are musical he's a prodigy. Then crazy Robin Williams appears and pimps the kid out. For his musical talents, of course. No, nothing sexual or anything. Because we're supposed to believe this is a fairy tale film. I'm sorry, this was all too much suspension of disbelief for me.

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