Shocking, absolutely appaling!

Title: I love you Phillip Morris
Director: Glenn Ficarra; John Requa
Written by: Steve McVicker, Glen Ficarra, John Requa
Starring: Rodrigo Santoro; Ewan MacGregor; Jim Carrey and Leslie Mann


“I love you Philip Morris” is easily one of the biggest disappointments of the 2010 Cinema releases. There’s no drama, outrage, shock or overtly graphic phallic images, in fact there isn’t a Wang insight throughout the entire film and to boot, well there’s more Hetero snuggle than Homo Bang. I know this may seem strange, but in all honesty I was expecting more, you know the kind of gross factor that made films like Shortbus legendary and Mysterious Skin infamous. No “I Love you, Philip Morris” is pretty banal, it’s funny and clever and even more it’s romantic, genuine romance the kind of shit you’re used to seeing Ethan Hawke in. No “I Love you, Philip Morris” is a sincere genuine romantic film about two fucked up people, who are deeply in love and try and do everything to please one another and remain in love.

MacGregor is a tour de force delivering one of his most memorable performances as the hopeless overly affectionate Philip Morris, and Jim Carey, well Jim Carey could make Robert Mugabe laugh. Carey plays Steven Russell a burnout cop turned con-man who goes on all out mission to defraud every tom dick and sally he meets, A gay Icon, Carey learns the difficulties of decadence by turning to fraud. And man is he good, so he good he defrauds even the viewer, he meets Morris (MacGregor) in prison and falls hopelessly in love and proceeds to do everything in his power to keep his baby safe.
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t’s really shameful, to think the world made such a hoorah over this film, when it has less pole than a pole vaulting competition, the thing that makes this so offensive at a fundamental level is that two men can be in love. And not the typical gay-love we’re accustomed to seeing which involves hours and hours of Rocket science but instead the kind of love every post-menopausal housewife dreams of. It’s funny and sweet and gay, but not Will and Grace gay, or Brokeback gay, but rather gay like Neapolitan ice cream, just different.

I give it 6 Hoers