jasongbeale

The first 60 minutes of 'Regular Lovers' is highly recommended. The first long sequence depicts the street riots in Paris of 1968, and are extremely convincing in the combination of random images and sounds.

After such a promising start, it's downhill... For another 2 hours the 'story' dwells on a tedious and passionless relationship between two young artists. Unnecessarily extended shots with no action or dialogue are little more than insipid imitations of Godard's style, without his wit or intelligence. They add nothing to this particular film I'm afraid.

I love the nouvelle vague, don't get me wrong, but this film mimics 'avant-garde' techniques to end up with the equivalent of an endless Calvin Klein advertisement - bored and handsome youths lolling about, being decadent and looking so photogenic. It needs much more dynamism and emotion, either in the acting or in the editing. It might have made a tolerable 2 hour film, and perhaps more involving for this audience member.

I love naturalistic films that combine human drama with comedy and pathos (think of Mike Leigh), and this film definitely starts off in that direction. I also enjoyed the basic premise and the way it unfolded. However, the dramatic potential of the story was not explored enough for my liking, especially in the wife's character half-heartedly played by Alycia Delmore.

In addition, the ending of the film is satisfactory, but didn't really deliver on the build-up. There was a dropping off in emotional and narrative tension, which made me feel they hadn't gone all the way with the idea. Perhaps that's the underlying message - that these characters are out of touch with their fundamental feelings and living on the surface.

Overall it's a highly entertaining comedy that explores male friendship in a very surprising way.

This is NOT Alice in Wonderland. It is a completely different story piggybacking on a timeless classic that should be left alone!! It is a Disney-Hollywood bowdlerization, which is a cross between Lord of the Rings and Shrek. If I had children I would give them the book and forbid them from seeing this garbage.

This is NOT Alice in Wonderland. It's 'what if Alice was grown up and returned to Wonderland and saved it from a fictional dragon'. In other words it has a predictable moronic plot, in which the subtle mystery of Alice in Wonderland is reduced to a sword and sorcery B-grade epic.

By the way 'I loved the special effects' (so what) 'Oooh it's in 3D too' (so what). Let's be serious. Lewis Carroll would sue Tim Burton to Timbuktoo if he was still alive.