The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

I’m Jerry and I’m parting company with Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Pancakes are Heath Ledger as the Joker. (5000 word review here. I’m not kidding.)

I’m Jerry and I’m parting company with Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Pancakes are Heath Ledger as the Joker. (5000 word review here. I’m not kidding.)

You can reboot the franchise five years later, but not with an entire act of the film devoted to the origin we all know by heart. Other than that? Good work, Joe Dimaggio.

In the words of George Costanza: [the jacket is] fabulous. It’s just… everything else in the outfit doesn’t quite get it done. And what’s with the lining?

For some reason, I expected a lot more out of this movie. But it was really pedestrian and/or laughable in a number of ways.

Sometimes, I just want to watch 90 minutes of [attempts at] comedy, many of which were right on the money.

This is what I walked away from the theater saying. This movie was rather sweet.

I love Greta Gerwig. I like Whit Stillman. I liked the concept. …but it just wasn’t a fork.

This movie may just be the equivalent of a little girl’s bike (simple, cute colors, universally appealing) but it works well enough and looks nice.

[this space intentionally left blank… because there’s still a lot of pee in my pants]

For most of this movie, I was waiting for someone to yell “Costanza!” but almost all I heard was “Cartwright!”. However, Guy Pearce knew what he was doing/what name he was calling and made it a mostly watchable 90 minutes.