The Hudsucker Proxy Rating: Release Date: 06 November, 2001 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: Tim Robbins Jennifer Jason Leigh Paul Newman Bruce Campbell Complete Cast (14 total)

The Hudsucker Proxy Reviews

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Spectacular visuals mask a very weak film.
It seems as though The Hudsucker Proxy would be better placed in the 1930s or 40s rather than 1957, as it is often a Capra and Hawks send-up. Visually, it is one of the most jaw-dropping recreations of big-business Manhattan ever put to celluloid, pureeing together bits of The Apartment, From the Terrace, and many other films.

Unfortunately, Coen Brothers films often collapse under their own creativity, and never has this been more apparent than here. As one plot contrivance stacks upon another, the goings-on become less fun, increasingly tiresome to the point of obnoxiousness. It's as if the Coen Brothers have not taken the crucial step of crafting an actual film from their vintage-store shennanigans. They would be more successful in this vein with "The Man Who Wasn't There", where they pushed the limits of their shallow filmaking with a more intelligent composite of cult film imagery.

One of my ten top cult movies of that year!
There are films (and that' s one of them) that from the initials shots catch the immediate attention of the viewer, due a certain unsaid spell, where the plot and the way it' s told seduce even the most exigent spectator.

There is a visible surrealistic environment around this original modern fable, that focuses around a country bumpkin who suddenly becomes (by these unexpected destiny' tricks) an unwitting pawn, the non planned invited to ruin a thriving and fruitful corporation.

An eye-minded film recreated around the 50' s with febrile good taste, weird characters, flaming script and powerful imagination. One senses the magic Fellini` s touch along the film. An incredible journey through the infinite possibilities that arouse from a just simple question: what if. ?

The brothers Coen have somehow signified in USA what Terry Gilliam and the Monty Python in U.K, Fellini in Italy, Buñuel in Mexico and Spain or Philipe De Broca with King of hearts. Overflowing creativity, unusual proposals, use of the black humor until the last unimaginable frontiers, a sharp and smart change of the logical perspective through a dreadful alteration of the coordinates of the common sense, where the insane world simply has turned the eye-camera toward us, reminding us that admirable Shakespeare sentence: What's is the reason the nuts cannot wisely talk about the unwise things of the sensate people?

It's a treat!



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