Wonderful World
Starring Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan, and Michael K. Williams
Directed by Joshua Goldin
Starring Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan, and Michael K. Williams
Directed by Joshua Goldin
The first 2010 movie...and unfortunately, it's a bust. With the recently acquired HD tv, new channels are in abundance and this 2010 flick played on television tonight, two days before its limited release in theaters. Unfortunately, that's neither here nor there, because this flick was a disappointment.
Matthew Broderick is Ben Singer, a has-been kiddie folk singer who for the past eight years has been working as a proofreader, keeping his successful past a secret. Divorced, Ben lives in a run-down apartment with a Senegalese man named Ibu (Williams), who, like all people from foreign countries in low-budget dramas, dispenses infinite wisdom to his roommate. When Ibu goes into a diabetic coma, his sister visits the US and settles into Ben's apartment, sparking a romance between the lost soul Ben and the very soulful Khadi (Lathan). Who knows? Maybe Ben will realize that his current life of slouching and smoking pot isn't the Oprah "live-your-best-life" way.
In the end, this movie is just a bore. Broderick is his usual apathetically one-note self. He just drains life out of every scene, although his scenes with his young daughter showed some promise. Unfortunately, Michael K. Williams and Sanaa Lathan's characters just come off as too laughably New-Agey.
Here's hoping 2010 contains some better movies than this one.
The RyMickey Rating: D
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ReplyDeleteMichael K. Williams aka the stabbity hobo from the Road and apparently has a role in this, is from the Wire
ReplyDeleteTo Anonymous - whoever you may be, thanks.
ReplyDeleteAnd to Justin - when I looked at his imdb page, I was waiting for that comment.
When a movie is on TV before it's in theaters, why do you even need to watch it? That's worse than direct-to-DVD. Plus, why waste your time watching anything Matthew Broderick?
ReplyDeleteWell, you raise a good point, but the channel that I watched it on actually showed some movies pre-theaters or "week-of" release that I actually wanted to see this year (or that I did see and I liked) -- Red Cliff, The Burning Plain, World Greatest Dad (which I liked), Two Lovers (which I liked), Surveillance (which I frickin' loved) -- so their track record wasn't that bad.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's showing at the Ritz in a week, so doesn't that show some potential? (I realize the answer to that is "no.")
I appreciate that you can when its not me posting.
ReplyDeleteGranted, all my anonymous comments come in a spurt of 10 minutes or so...
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Contesting that whole "why waste time with anything dealing with Broderick"
Yes, Justin, but you conveniently leave out Addicted to Love, The Stepford Wives, The Producers, Deck the Halls, and Godzilla, and if the best he can muster up since 1989's Glory is the voice of an animated lion in 1994, there's something wrong there.
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree with Meghan on the Broderick front.
And how could I forget Inspector Gadget?
ReplyDeleteBoooo - that wasn't me about the Matthew Broderick.
ReplyDeleteand I somehow left out the word "tell" in my first post.
TOO MANY ANONYMI !!!!
ReplyDeleteanother one in support of Matthew Broderick: Deck the Ha...
ReplyDeleteoh wait....hmm.