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February 16, 2007
Glimpsing the divine: Is Anna Faris God?
Reid Rosefelt at Zoom-In shares that fair delusion and a big Smiley Face, and he thinks Gregg Araki's newest is the Citizen Kane of stoner pics. He compares his reaction to Borat: "I had a wonderful time, but watching that film for me was like encountering Will Ferrell's bare butt—always a welcome sight, but you've seen it before. Cohen I knew; Faris stoned was new. And that girl had me at first toke. I don't think I'm giving away too much to 
say that Smiley Face is 84 minutes of Anna Faris walking around LA completely baked... There are some moments of high drama--whether she should eat her nerd roommate's cannabis-laced cupcakes, and at a certain point in the plot she comes into possession of a first edition of the Communist Manifesto... Faris takes this thin-as-a-Matzoh premise and with nothing more than her gaping Lucille Ball rubber-mouth, her glassy-eyed stare, her wacked-out inventiveness, and her complete absence of vanity, spins something awe-inspiring out of what would have been a really stupid movie... I can easily imagine her slapping John Cleese with a fish. We can never have enough funny people."
Posted by Ray Pride at February 16, 2007 03:03 PM
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