Lars and the Real Girl Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

What can i say....amazing!

Watched this bored on a plane yesterday purely by chance after thinking 'this will either be horrendous or brilliant, so i'll give it 5 mins and see what happens...I gave it 5 and it held my attention, but I was still unsure...so gave it another 10...and was utterly hooked! Brimming with originality and great humour (I was laughing out loud in a plane seat!!) but also provoking emotions of sadness, pity, reflection, love and humanity. Quiet aside from the excellent storyline, you have in this film some of the best acting I have seen in ages..Ryan Gosling is jaw-droppingly excellent, and he's not the only shining star.

Watch it, watch it, watch it...

Charity?

Tom Charity's review is misleading and misled. What is spectacular about this film is not only its originality but also the way it challenges our preconceptions (those same preconceptions Mr Charity clearly holds dear). Writer, director and cast make inspired creative choices and play them to the hilt so that an idea which you would expect to run out of steam continues to surprise, provoke and challenge throughout ... but most importantly, it has an amazing sense of humour. Its funny, Tom, very, very funny.

Lars and the real girl

This film was appauling!! I wasted nearly 2 hours of my life watching it!!! It was so poor, I cant even think of a film that comes any where near as poor as this one!!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Stunning

This was possibly the sweetest flim I have ever seen without being mushy. Fabulous performances from all without exception.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Grows on you

Many of the reviews here call this a very, very funny movie. While it is certainly sweet (probably the most appropriate adjective I can think of), and there is a subtle element of humour throughout which puts a coy smile on your face, I have to stop short of calling it 'funny'. The film starts out fairly slowly; it took me 30 min or so for an interest to take hold. (On a related note, I agree with the person who said Tom Charity missed the plot in his review.)

More intriguing than the humour, though, is the journey our hero Lars takes in this film. We watch his character develop complexity and nuances which takes us, and his small town, with him. Many people criticize the community's acceptance of Lars' 'girlfriend' unrealistic, but whether realistic or not it didn't bother me or detract from the story. On the contrary, I didn't have any trouble accepting a small, closeknit town coming together on this matter - there was plenty of disbelief to keep it real.

Lars and the Real Girl didn't have me laughing out loud, but I found myself slowly pulled in and enjoyed Lars' evolution.

IMPORTANT REVIEW

If you have any thoughts of watching this film then please think again.... a trip to a suicide booth will be alot more exciting.

RUBBISH.

Tripe

Don't bother renting!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Nowt stranger than folk...

I absolutely loved this film and watching it added fuel to my growing suspicion that Ryan Gosling may just go on to be one of the finest actors of his generation. It's not going to be everybody's cup of tea but if you like your films to be insightful, witty and unconventional, you're going to love it. What surprised me was how romantic it all feels - outrageous considering who/what the love interest is. Had me in the palm of it's mannequin hand by the end... Brilliant!

Doll's Play a bit silly really

This film wasnt quite what I expected, and it was a bit hard to believe that all the town would go along with things. Not sure whether to take it as a dark comedy or not, and it did make me laugh out loud at bits. Overall though,a bit too silly.

Surprisingly DULL!

I thought the synopsis for this movie sounded intriguing and assumed the film would be quite decent but it was deeply unsatisfying to watch. Ryan Gosling is a very capable actor and the cast were pretty good but the story was dull and I struggled to see the film through to the end. It had potential to be a very moving, interesting film but it was another dull 'quirky' film.