zif ofoz
What a bizarre but delightful little movie! It's a weird dark comedy with a fine performance by all the actors. If you like odd plot lines and characters with attention grabbing antics and dialog - this is your movie because it is perfectly told.I only found this treasure because I was looking for movies with Juno Temple. Had never heard of this flick and after reading the other actors names I certainly had to give this a look!At a certain point in the story you can guess what will happen to Franklin Franklin but the charm of this film is how the story gets you there. And on the way you will have numerous surprises!A good movie!
punishmentpark
Great colors, great photography, good, but weird characters and 'uneventful events' mixed with a sort of separation-melancholia that is well-known to dwell in many apartment complexes. Yes, though I wasn't feeling lyrical about it, I was having good fun with this 'Small Apartments' and its inhabitants and visitors. It could have done with a little more edge and a little less melancholy perhaps. But then there's the ending which takes place while the dead character Bernard Franklin speaks to us by a tape that is labeled 'the answer'... I didn't like his 'enlightened' monologue one bit, as it is far too submissive to the powers that should not be, as it were. I tried to appreciate the sympathetic gist of it, but combined with the apathetic returns or freshly acquired states of the surviving characters (Franklin Franklin travels to a far away country with plenty of cash and tits - hooray!?), I failed to reach their destinations with them.Up until that ending I would have certainly deemed it worth a good 7 out of 10, now I can't go higher than a (big) 5.
SnoopyStyle
Clumsy deadbeat Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) accidentally kills his landlord. He must do everything in his power to hide the body. He finds the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother and a crew of misfit characters, forcing him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.This is one weird movie. Matt Lucas is a weird white blob of a guy in his tighty whiteys. Juno Temple has a great scene. Dolph Lundgren looks super weird. Just how weird is this? Johnny Knoxville is probably the least weird person in the movie. Add in Rebel Wilson, and this is one weird L.A. apartments complex. Did I say how weird this was? OK then.
kaspertime8452
If you relish the quirkiness of "Juno", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "Little Miss Sunshine", then you have to see this movie. I won't go into the detail of the plot line as there are plenty of reviews on that already, but if you relish the out of the ordinary compared to the typical Hollywood fare, then watch this movie. You won't be disappointed. Very funny and at times, very touching. All the actors put in great performances and sometimes it's not about the big "stars" you can attract or how many explosions you can create. This movie is about the story, and the lives of the characters within the story.