Merlin-29

I suppose it doesn't matter since this movie is only 1% story- but the portrayal of such a crisis, indeed the entire basis for the story, is implausible. Aside from breaking the laws of physics left and right, the idea of blowing up an asteroid heading for the earth is the worst thing you could do. The characters are very one-dimensional and uninteresting.

Film art, and pure Lynch. Some beautiful cinematography, construction of the scenes, help build the mood. The mood is characteristic Lynch: dark and quiet, punctuated by the horrible (and at times amusingly grotesque). Also typical of Lynch, the story leaves one full of unanswered questions, but perhaps even more so here than in other works like Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet. There is something of an identity confusion: two men, each with their own lives, are somehow actually only one. There are other surreal elements mixed in with the real, and no clear indications where the division is, nor whether the surreal is external or internal to some character (or from whom). The resolution of this confusion is left to the viewer.

There were amusing scenes in this movie, and I did laugh sometimes, but not that much. The plot had some promise, but after the initial setup I found it disappointing. A comedy doesn't have to have a good story to be okay, but this one doesn't have a good story, and isn't all that funny without it. If you like Adam Sandler, see something else.