No manure, no magic

I ♥ Huckabees

(2004)

Oh, right, that was my initial reaction to this: I desperately wanted to like it more than I did. I'm still checking that box.

That said, it scores 100 for balls, for not really caring whether we like it or not. Anything that tries this hard deserves credit; unfortunately, how hard it is trying shows in every frame.

A rare English-language (sort of) role for The Sexiest Woman Alive Isabelle Huppert, early appearances by Jonah Hill and Isla Fisher, late ones by Tippi Hedren and Talia Shire, and an inexplicably uncredited bit by Richard Jenkins. I still wouldn't rule out ♥ing this eventually, but not yet.