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Hide and Seek (2005)
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Movie Review by AJ 
July 13th, 2006
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Dakota Fanning, while I'm not very fond of her, is a child actress that many people fawn over and I'm sure she'll make a successful Jodie Foster-like crossover into adulthood acting (if she doesn't, well, color me a whole decade's worth of surprised). When that happens, Hide and Seek will be a very interesting footnote to her illustrious career. It only just came out last year, and already I'm envisioning late-night cable airings a few decades from now: It's just twisted and campy and laughably bad enough to get that kind of bizarro fan worship. It'll be like what Dragnet is to Tom Hanks. Don't get me wrong, Hide and Seek is a very bad movie, and it's so sad to see how low Robert De Niro is willing to go these days. But at the same time, Fanning and De Niro are so deliriously over-the-top that I found myself howling with laughter, sides totally splitting (gonna have to call the seamstress). There are lots of dumb allusions to Fanning's "imaginary friend" Charlie, and a blood-filled bathtub device that's so repetitive you can almost predict the exact point in the story where it'll pop up again. Plus, the ending where De Niro goes totally psycho is great in a sad, "Oh my God, this is just so stupid it's ridiculously hilarious" way. A terrible movie, but so many laugh moments.
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 | Joe
Jul 13, 2006 2:28 PM
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HILARIOUS Review. And I couldn't agree more. Let's just hope Fanning goes the way of Foster and not the way of Barrymore.
Oh and the definition for Requiem for a Dream...dang that was profound! |
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Jul 13, 2006 3:11 PM
And I'm glad I was able to shed some light on that title.