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The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996)
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Movie Review by T
April 27th, 2007
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This movie bugs me.
The movie itself is worth watching, and contains a moral tale about why it's a bad idea to lie about who you are and pretend to be someone else, especially to someone you're interested in. Garofolo and Thurman give really great performances as their respective characters and bend the boundaries of the stereotypes they'd been written as. The comedic elements were well written and perfectly timed. The story itself was engaging.
What bugged me was the attitude conveyed by Garofolo's character. "Nobody could ever love me for my personality! OMG, he's cute and I don't think I am, so why would he want to be with me?!" The story was less about her dealing with her own personal insecurities and overcoming them than about her elaborate plot to avoid the issue. The attitude that this guy she's interested in would be that sort of shallow really irked me - really, if he was only interested in someone for their looks, why would she want to be with him in the first place?
The ending made me foam at the mouth. It was a complete stereotype and almost had to happen the way it did to give the romantic movie a happy ending, but I'd really have been happier if it had driven the moral home with an unhappy ending.
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 | Zombie Boy
Apr 27, 2007 5:58 PM
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