buzzerbill With a title like "Breast Men", one would expect at least some entertainment value, a little bit of cheesy humor, something that would live up to the promise of the title. Well, friends, this movie fails to deliver on almost every level. How, you may wonder, can this be? This movie makes medical history, breasts, and the 60s, 70s, and 80s boring--no small feat.First off--yes, there are breasts. Lots of them. Large, small, droopy, and perky. Some of the talking head bits (well really talking breasts, since we see no heads), somewhat like those in the vastly superior "Kinsey", are mildly amusing. The two brightest elements in the film are Lisa Marie--as the model for the breast implant--and Emily Proctor, injecting a good deal of charm into what is a generally charmless firm.The film follows the careers of Drs. Saunders (David Schwimmer) and Larson (Chris Cooper), the inventors of the breast implant. (Supposedly, the film is based on the actual inventors. Let us hope that their lives were somewhat more interesting.) We start with the stereotypes of the gruff older doctor (Cooper) and the young inventive hotshot (Schwimmer) and sink rapidly from there. Chris Cooper is a far better actor than one would guess from performance--all he is here is a bundle of crabbiness. David Schwimmer is far worse--does this man have any talent besides a hangdog look? Here, he goes from young and hangdog to sleazy and hangdog to sleazier and hangdog--it is a merciful relief (spoiler) when his Corvette gets mashed at the end of the film. He maintains one basic expression--constipated. (It would be interesting to match him with Kristin Scott Thomas, who also looks perpetually blocked...wait, that is just too dreadful to contemplate.) Oh yes, the music isn't bad, and the costumer designer and art director had some fun with some truly hideous 70s styles. But the visual delights are not enough. If you could roast this turkey, it would be completely lacking in taste and texture. (I give it a two only for the music and the art direction.) As Charlie Brown would say--bleahhh.

otto4 This movie is advertised as something of a comedic look at the guys who invented breast implants. I expected some dark humor, and some good vintage 1950's and 60's sets. However what you really get here is a poorly told story, bad acting, hard to follow plot that goes from the 50's to the 80's. There's no way of knowing how much of the story is true from the movie. The ending is just plain stupid. I can't believe that they couldn't have done a better job with this.The issue of the movie having a lot of breasts is mostly a non-sequitor. The breasts shown were non sexual props. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you're looking for titillation this movie doesn't have it.What this movie is really about is how doctors and lawyers are greedy sleazeballs with no real interest in their clients. In that regard it may be something of a documentary, but I just found it making me angry.Breast lovers won't like this movie. People who like comedies won't like it. People who like documentaries won't like it. Frankly I can't imagine anyone will really like it. So skip it.

yarborough The fact that women respond more positively to this film than men is sad for two reasons: 1)"Breast Men" exploits the hell out of breasts, 2)It places the blame for breast implants, including their problems, entirely on women--who want to look sexy for men--not on social pressures. "Breast Men" could have made its point--that women want men to notice their breasts and often resolve to implants--just as effectively with only a tenth of the amount of breasts shown. The filmmaker's used this theme as their opportunity to showcase female nudity. Kubrick did it in "Eyes Wide Shut." I'm a male hetero and even I think the film went too far. I mean, did we really need the stripping and the coke-off-the-tit scenes? As for who to place the blame on for the breast implant controversy, the film clearly argues that it is the women. Schwimmer doesn't have to do any scheming to come up with the implant idea--he just notices his neighbor's concern over her own breast size. And after the ad for breast implants is put out, women flock to the doctor's office. Furthermore, it is a woman who pushes Schwimmer into giving her grotesquely large breast implants, not some horny guy. In addition, all of the talking breasts and the woman on the Phil Donahue Show make it clear that they want or had breast implants for their own personal satisfaction, not someone else's. Even ordinary women, like the one in the studio audience, are obsessed with having large breasts. Breast implants are portrayed as a negative thing only in that they can be hazardous to a woman's health. Neither the morality nor the objectifying consequence they have on women are addressed for more than 5 seconds. I'd like to sell the Bay Bridge to any woman who thinks "Breast Men" takes a serious, critical look at the world of breast implants. If women do think so, however, and agree with the film's blaming of women as the ones responsible for society's fascination with big breasts, then that reveals a sad truth about women that I would rather believe isn't true. Women in this film value themselves entirely on their breast size, and if that's true in reality--as the female response to this film seems to indicate--women can't blame us men for seeing them as nothing more than a pair of breasts.

stamper This is a fairly good movie (especially for a TV film). Ok it was dramatized a lot and you noticed it, but it was pretty enjoyable (better than Hollywood crap like The Avengers or Godzilla). And it had nothing to do with me being a guy and the fact there were a lot of breasts in this. It just was well acted, interesting, funny and at times even dramatic.7 out of 10