I love sarcastic movies. This wasn't one. At least not a funny one
Great and deeply sarcastic movie
This movie is not entertaining. It is like watching a documentary about a boring person. I turned it off early.
The message is simple: Greed is bad. We know that already, of course, but the film shares the message well, contrasting the lives of the rich and greedy with the poorest in our world. The fact that the film is also very entertaining is a good thing - it keeps you watching and then pushes home the points it is trying to make.
Steve Coogan stars in the dramatic satire Greed. The story follows fashion mogul Rich McCreedie as he prepares for his sixtieth birthday party. Unfortunately the script is rather poor, switching back and forth between various flashbacks, making it hard to tell where and when things are happening. It also does a really clumsy job at working in its anti-slave labor messages and allegories; causing further plot problems. Still, Coogan gives a good performance and makes all the comedic bits work, as does Isla Fisher for that matter. While some of the satire hits, Greed is a confused film that isn’t as clever as it thinks it is.
Shout by Stephen CampbellBlockedParent2022-10-22T03:19:49Z
A savage and hilarious satire
Examining how the rich get richer whilst the poor get unpaid jobs building faux-Roman coliseums on Greek islands, the film focuses specifically on a successful British clothing entrepreneur, and its bread and butter is the concomitant grotesquery that results when an individual has the same wealth as a small country. Effectively mixing send-up and satire with more serious socio-economic points, Greed doesn't really do or say a huge amount that hasn't been done or said before, but it's entertaining, amusing, and undeniably relevant.
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