- Title: Margot at the Wedding
- Rating: No Stars
- IMDB: link
Margot at the Wedding is one of those films that make me wish I wasn’t a film critic. I feel obligated to watch said film, but completely bored out of my mind and furious that I felt I needed to set through such torture. Unlikable characters, odd situations and ultimately terrible commentary makes this movie a big bomb, a big bomb I had wished someone would have landed at the end of the film. I think that the film would have greatly benefited from a mass murder from the crazy neighbors or maybe some freak accident of nature. Simply put, I couldn’t wrap my mind around any one thing in this film.
Characters who care very little for others and only care about themselves, make the audience really hate what they see going on in front of them. The relationships between mother & son or sister & sister, are completely off base and way too far in left field to be the list bit convincing.
Telling your mother you masturbated last night or telling your young son to use a condom if he was going to sleep with the babysitter…really? Sisters communicating in hateful quips and still banter randomly about being little girls and remember when’s. Too much oddness to be enjoyable and no attempt at redemption or kindness to be even the least bit content with watching Margot at the Wedding, a film that can easily be passed up.
When Margot (Nicole Kidman) found out her sister was to wed, she and her son Claude (Zane Pais) go to basically ruin the wedding and make Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) miserable. Margot has an always knows best attitude and enforces that on not only her sister, but also friends and other family members. While she out to visit her sister, she and her husband are working on a separation, but that is being kept secret throughout most of the film and she is cheating on him with a writer who lives close to her sister.
Margot isn’t the least bit pleasant to Malcolm (Jack Black), Pauline’s fiancé, she starts trouble at every corner and tries to plant little evil ideas in Pauline’s head about her soon to be husband.
As Margot plays the vicious evil bitch, her son is coming into his own. She had pampered him all his life and to be honest looks a little too much like a girl and is repeatedly told that he stinks and should wear deodorant. Claude is certainly a little off his rocker and blends in well with the whole weird relationship between Margot, Pauline, Malcolm and the crazy neighbors.
Pauline’s neighbors are insisting on cutting down a cherished tree accusing them at rotting their yard and gardens. Pauline and Malcolm won’t cut it down so the neighbors wreak havoc by throwing garbage, broken glass and other crap over the fence into their yard. Crazy people!
Margot finally gets her way and the floodgates bust wide open, all hell breaks loose with what little ounce of sanity was left and now it’s a blood bath. Not a real blood bath, damn I was looking forward to seeing a few casualties and nothing but death at the end of the mess.
Margot is a crazy messed up far end of the counter perception of a family dichotomy and relationships. Never clear to the audience exactly what may have happened in the sisters’ lives or the family secrets to cause so much hate and sharpness amongst them. The whole film is a crazy flop and is about as understandable and enjoyable to watch, as this review is clear. Seriously, what a heaping pile of self-loathing crap.
The best part to the movie, besides the ending is the poster, it’s clean and well design..nice use of white space.