Review: Shorts

Review: Shorts

Rating: *1/2

Nonna's Rating: $

Rotten Tomatoes: 44%

If you are a male about nine years old who enjoys booger and fart jokes, you just may love this movie. Then again, you may not. As the adult who accompanied the child to the film, I found it excruciatingly difficult to sit through -- and I had had high hopes with John Cryer, James Spader, and William Macy each portraying adults with various levels of cluelessness.

The moral of the story is harmless enough: "Be careful what you wish for," but the out-of-sequence plotting of the movie is unnecessarily choppy and distracting. I was, however, rather fascinated by Jolie Vanier, pictured above, who plays Helvetica Black (named for a font?). She seemed to be channeling the young Christina Ricci as Wednesday in The Addams Family -- not entirely successfully, but she was trying. Whenever she appeared in a scene, the soundtrack chanted her name incessantly, something my grandson Max found very creepy. Do skip this one.

Nonna's Ratings:

$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening price
$$$= Worth paying the Matinee price
$$= Worth a rental
$ = Wait for cable
# = Skip it