I can understand the love for Peter Sellers here–he really sells the hell out of this, and my reaction to his performance evolved throughout the movie: from “huh, funny” to “what is happening” to “ok, let’s move on and do something” to “oh, maybe this is actually amazing.” In other words, it’s a one-joke movie but the artistry is in the repetition, perhaps? That said, Ashby is still hanging an entire movie on this performance and 40 years has dulled the satire a bit, so as a whole it didn’t quite come together.
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I can understand the love for Peter Sellers here–he really sells the hell out of this, and my reaction to his performance evolved throughout the movie: from “huh, funny” to “what is happening” to “ok, let’s move on and do something” to “oh, maybe this is actually amazing.” In other words, it’s a one-joke movie but the artistry is in the repetition, perhaps? That said, Ashby is still hanging an entire movie on this performance and 40 years has dulled the satire a bit, so as a whole it didn’t quite come together.