okay so chappie mini review i guess because like four or five people asked what i thought
i enjoyed it but i recognize a lot of people probably aren't. it's ridiculously sincere and earnest with like no hints of irony or self awareness and someone last night mentioned, and i kind of agree with them, that if almost felt like some tried to make a pixar movie but rated R. the movie is just almost too much? the stuff that connects well does so really solidly but the stuff that doesn't is glaringly obvious because with how straight it plays it the problems and shortcomings are just as exposed as it's emotional focus.
and despite that the movie worked for me. the plot is silly, a couple of good actors (sigourney weaver & hugh jackman especially) were wasted in basically nothing roles but honestly the movie suffers mostly from being made 30 years too late. had this come out a couple decades ago it probably would've been hailed a classic. the movie is wired wrong but it still works right.
this is gonna have a lot of people divided, i'll be really surprised if i'm wrong on that, the movie is imperfectly realized, intensely sincere, and fearlessy uncool. it's just not going to work for everyone