Coming out in the U.K. on October 16 via Lionsgate, the international trailer for Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” with of course, the final onscreen appearance of the late Heath Ledger is finally here.
And Jesus, if you had issues with the effects in Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones,” which admittedly, we’re beginning to have second thoughts about, you’re really going to have some problems here as well. Marred by a horrible and cornball narration, we do get some glimpses of Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, but the picture is largely looking like the incoherent mess that most critics felt it was during Cannes.
It’s also incredibly “hey, wacky!” and you kind of expect Howard The Duck to waddle in, midway through. It’s like many have said before, was it Vulture? It sounds like/looks like a hodgepodge mish-mash of everything Terry Gilliam has done in the past, crammed into one overwrought kaleidoscope of color and un-subtlety. It kind of reminds us of that “Mr. Show” skit where the host says in a goofy ass tone, you can do it if, “you imagineer it!” Honestly, after the iffy reports from Cannes and considering Gilliam’s sketchy output of late, we kind of figured this would be a mess. Alas. Like usual, we still want to see it, but we’re not holding out that much hope. We sort of knew this would be troublesome when we read the script back in 2008.
