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	I [Heart] Huckabees
		I [Heart] Huckabees bills itself as an 'existential comedy,' and it is in that there are lots of heady ideas flying around.
		Huckabees is a giant retail corporation along the lines of Target or Wal-Mart.
		It spreads to Stand's girlfriend and Huckabees spokesmodel Dawn (Naomi Watts, We Don't Live Here Anymore, 21 Grams), who is starting to wonder about her continual need to look beautiful.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/i_heart_huckabees.html (673 words)

	Metaphilm - I Heart Huckabees
		Likewise in Huckabees, ordinary details in the life of the person being investigated—tensions in the workplace, the loss of a family cat, a (planted) Kafka title in the trash—are transformed into crucial signifiers in a larger story.
		I ♥ Huckabees has invented—or perhaps rediscovered—a literary character type that will be of no small usefulness in understanding the subtext of many twenty-first century projects: reconnecting the details of personal, daily life, not only to grand questions of existence and spirituality, but to the public sphere in general.
		Huckabees still expands despite the best efforts of the Open Spaces coalition, Tommy Corn’s wife and child are unaccounted for, and Brad Stand’s life is in a deconstructed state.
	metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=367_0_2_0 (2300 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review I HEART HUCKABEES movie by David O. Russell with Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin ...
		Heart it or hate it, "I Heart Huckabees" is a modest piece of would-be intellectual entertainment, ultimately as fluffy as the cute little heart symbol it winkingly adopts.
		In "Huckabees," environmental activist Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), head of the grassroots Open Spaces Coalition, is unnerved by a series of inexplicable coincidences involving a tall African and hires a husband-and-wife team of "existential detectives" (Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman) to figure out what, if anything, it all means.
		In its drive for metaphysical humor, "I Heart Huckabees" manages to ask a lot of big, earthy questions about the Nature of the Universe and the Meaning of Life.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/ihearthuckabees.php (609 words)

	I Heart Huckabees
		Huckabees is simultaneously scattered and thought-provoking, as if writer/director David O. Russell gathered up all his loose ideas and decided to pack them tightly into one movie.
		Huckabees is more readily compared to another Anderson movie, Rushmore, if only because both films star Jason Schwartzman, who has matured into an actor whose basic expression is one of frustration and disappointment.
		Huckabees comes off as the all-consuming retailer we all loathe, complete with commercials starring the chain's scantily clad spokesmodel, Dawn (Naomi Watts), who's dating Brad.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1008huckabees08.html (670 words)

	I ♥ Huckabees Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The tight plotting and comic verve of Russell's superb Flirting With Disaster is sadly lacking in the erratically written and directed I Heart Huckabees.
		I Heart Huckabees was released last fall behind enormous hype, but despite its star power and moderate critical acclaim, it failed to recoup even its ultra-modest ($20 million) budget.
		Huckabees seems like a brilliant satire on corporate "commitment" to the environment (read: hypocrisy), the American cult of celebrity, grassroots political activists, and People Who Stare at Their Navels Until They See Their Spines.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139418 (1975 words)

	I Heart Huckabees (2004): Reviews
		Huckabees boasts an impressive cast, and every one of them is fun to watch.
		Huckabees is the real thing--an authentic disaster--but the picture is so odd that it should inspire, in at least a part of the audience, feelings of fervent loyalty.
		Huckabees is godawful, a mirthless, bilious bore in which the vividly focused fury of "Three Kings" has become free-floating anger at the follies of human existence.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/ihearthuckabees (1441 words)

	"I Heart Huckabees" - Salon
		David O. Russell's fourth picture, "I Heart Huckabees," is one of those deeply well-intentioned failures that springs from the fallacy that movies need to be about the thing they're about -- and if you think I've just set up a confusing construct, just wait till you see this movie.
		There's something drably accusatory about "I Heart Huckabees," as if Russell were outraged to think that he's the only one who troubles himself thinking deep thoughts about interconnectedness and isolation.
		The hardest thing to reckon with is that "I Heart Huckabees" is desperately sincere: Russell wants us to care about these deeper meanings, but he can't lead us to see them for ourselves.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2004/10/01/huckabees/index.html (802 words)

	I Heart Huckabees - Movie Review
		In David O. Russell’s I Heart Huckabees, everyone talks a little bit like they’ re in a play — the dialogue is unusually dense and abstract for a film, even an artsy one, even an “existential comedy,” as this one purports to be.
		Huckabees is like a screwball comedy filtered through a student thesis project, but it’s nothing if not original.
		I Heart Huckabees is an entertaining oddity, well-acted and funny, but it’s almost too singular to stick as anything else.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/ihearthuckabees (656 words)

	Las Vegas City Life
		Huckabees is an absurdist, existential comedy that pokes fun at soul-sacrificing, materialistic sell-outs who embrace the super-store system as well as the narcissistic, self-delusional, would-be martyrs who rally and rebel against it.
		Part of the problem with Huckabees is the psychological sprawl that convolutes the narrative and dialogue.
		Huckabees is similar in tone to Russell's sophomore effort Flirting with Disaster, with a heavy Charlie Kaufman influence.
	www.lasvegascitylife.com /articles/2004/10/21/film/film01.txt (670 words)

	I Heart Huckabees - Movie Review
		Russell culls lightly ironic, against-type performances from his entire ingenious cast, and the Peter-Sellers-like vortex of eccentricity that seems to surround Jason Schwartzman in all his roles (think "Rushmore," "Slackers" or "Spun") is the perfect anchor for the film.
		But "I ♥ Huckabees" is most droll when you put all its pieces together and see it for what it really is: a sophisticated teardown of single-track belief systems.
		Although "Huckabees" gets by more on its idiosyncrasy than its intelligence, those rolling with its dizzy punches and open-minded to its absurdity are in for a freaky post-Freudian fun time.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/huckabees (445 words)

	I Heart Huckabees (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		One of the biggest influences for the ideas presented in David O. Russell's 'I Heart Huckabees' was 9/11.
		Disillusionment often takes place for many affected by tragedy, as has happened to the characters in 'I Heart Huckabees.' From an activist fighting urban sprawl to a firefighter blaming the worlds ills on petroleum hungry nations, 'I Heart Huckabees' presents profound questions about existence with a unique comic approach.
		'I Heart Huckabees' is filled with three-dimensional characters and crisp-sounding dialogue that will leave you chuckling hours after seeing the film.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0356721 (897 words)

	Veritas et Venustas: i heart ? huckabees
		huckabees is a bi-polar examination of the meaning of life, swinging between nihilism and a grim, left-brain Buddhism.
		Billed as an ''existential comedy,'' ''Huckabees,'' which had its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival last week and opens on Oct. 1, may be one of the oddest Hollywood releases in recent memory: a jumbled, antic exploration of existential and Buddhist philosophy that also involves tree-hugging, African immigrants and Shania Twain.
		I was prepared to enjoy i (heart) huckabees, but it was so deadly dull that even the confusion over what the movie meant wasn't enough to sustain my attention.
	massengale.typepad.com /venustas/2005/03/i_strikeheartst.html (3290 words)

	I Heart Huckabees (2004)
		While watching I Heart Huckabees I was reminded of the reasons why he has become so sought after.
		While its existential philosophy would be enough to merit a viewing, Huckabees takes it a step further, propelling the film into excellence by combining the logical and analytical with the emotional in a surprisingly subtle fashion.
		With I Heart Huckabees there's no obligatory "Oh, the character is feeling sad right now, so I guess I should too" association.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/IHeartHuckabees/IHeartHuckabees.html (669 words)

	"I Heart Huckabees" - The Hidden Message by Michael Mamas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If I Heart Huckabees has any long-term value, it would be in having you look in the mirror to see where you really are, in hopes that you would then move beyond it.
		However, I Heart Huckabees is essentially mum on the subject of what that next step is. The only suggestion, presented at the end of the movie, is to throw the baby out with the bathwater and abandon spirituality altogether.
		Hopefully I Heart Huckabees marks the dawn of a bright, new, spiritual future—the beginning of a deep, sober, mature inquiry into what lies beyond all the mumbo jumbo.
	www.thegoldenfrog.com /I_heart_huckabees.htm (800 words)

	A Movie Parable: I Heart Huckabees
		I Heart Huckabees is a jumbled mess of a movie which, I suppose is only to be expected seeing as it is trying to make sense out of the jumbled mess that is human existence.
		As the voice of Huckabees (as well as the sexy image), she grows fearful of allowing her essence to be overwhelmed by the cheesecake image she presents.
		Perhaps, as some critics surmise, director David O. Russell, who also co-wrote the script with Jeff Baena, meant for all this to be a joke - a spoof on the self-absorbed whose "deep thoughts" prove to be nothing of the kind.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov2004/ihearth.asp (526 words)

	reverse shot : online : autumn 2004
		Before seeing I Heart Huckabees, I was getting ready to group David O. Russell together with Wes Anderson, P.T. Anderson, and Alexander Payne as part of a modern cadre of filmmakers with similar sensibilities and an innate knowledge of how to meld organic comic moments with an embracing humanism.
		Yet the absence of any real profundity in I Heart Huckabees, filled as it is with the new-age vibe of admonishments like “Sadness is what you are, don’t deny it,” and “Where is your pure being now, Tommy?” makes it difficult to take these transformations seriously.
		In a work with a literal Heart in its title, you would suspect honest sentiment would be in greater evidence, until you realize that the Heart is meant sarcastically, commenting upon that symbol’s newly re-energized commodification and heavy utilization following the popularity of I Heart NY memorabilia after 9/11.
	www.reverseshot.com /autumn04/huckabees.html (899 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Green and pleasant
		I Heart Huckabees is a movie about life, the environment and the meaning of Shania Twain.
		I Heart Huckabees, a very sweet, very mischievous motion picture that explores the question of why we are here, and more relevantly, why Shania Twain is here, falls directly into this category.
		I Heart Huckabees found little favour with the American public, especially in the "red" states that voted for George Bush.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1359330,00.html (861 words)

	BBC - Movies - review - I Heart Huckabees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Indeed he offers the only note of sincerity in David O Russell's glib existential comedy I Heart Huckabees, even outshining Dustin Hoffman as a babbling metaphysician and Jason Schwartzman who stars as an anguished environmentalist on a quest for ultimate truth.
		They sniff out a trail that leads to retail giant Huckabees and corporate go-getter Brad (Jude Law), who views Albert's campaign to preserve local marshland as a PR opportunity.
		But the bigger problem lies in O Russell's philosophical (as opposed to psychological) approach to his characters which rips them apart with a psychotic detachment that culminates in zero emotional impact.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/11/23/i_heart_huckabees_2004_review.shtml (434 words)

	Confused struggling America
		I Heart Huckabees, directed by David O. Russell, written by Russell and Jeff Baena.
		I Heart Huckabees, the new film by David O. Russell, director of Flirting With Disaster (1996) and Three Kings (1999), is something of a personal as well as a social statement.
		However, I Heart Huckabees should not be judged solely on the basis of its weaknesses, obvious as they may be.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/nov2004/huck-n30.shtml (1338 words)

	I Heart Huckabees - The Hollywood News
		One can’t argue that I Heart Huckabee’s is anything other than an odd movie.
		I Heart Huckabee’s appears in both an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 and in a fullscreen version on this double-sided, single-layered DVD; the widescreen image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		I Heart Huckabee’s definitely won’t be for everyone.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /dvd/060202.php (1733 words)

	I Heart Huckabees (2004)
		When I Heart Huckabee’s hit screens in 2004, I was surprised to learn this was his first directorial effort since 1999’s Three Kings.
		I guess five years isn’t that long a period, and it certainly doesn’t compare with the 20 years between Malick’s Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, but it felt like a fairly extended duration away from the set.
		I think it’s too odd a movie for me to offer a firm endorsement for someone who hasn’t seen it to buy a copy, though I also feel it’ll probably warrant extra viewings to take in its nuances, so a purchase might not be a bad idea.
	www.dvdmg.com /ihearthuckabees.shtml (1767 words)

	Metaphilm - I Heart Huckabees
		But modernity has displaced the metaphorical heart, with its previous connotations of agency and will, consciousness, bodily fragility, blood lineage, and death.
		Plato’s pure forms aren’t going to help find those car keys, and neither will Eli Lilly’s Prozac make you more inclined to care whether or not the universe has a design.
		Perhaps the rambling, earthy logic of the existential detective, for whom abstract theorizing takes a back seat to the specifics of particular human “cases,” is what we need to get beyond some of our current divisions.
	metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=367_0_2_0_M (2300 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: I Heart Huckabees Review
		He's an ambitious golden boy junior executive at Huckabees (a Walmart surrogate); she's his girlfriend, the official Huckabees' spokeswoman who uses bubble-headed sex appeal to sell Huckabees products.
		By now I think you've noticed that I found I Heart Huckabees a bit of a disappointment.
		The film held out great promise: subject matter with wonderful potential, a cast populated by talented and engaging players, and a director who's had previous triumphs.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_11/ihearthuckabees.html (1261 words)

	Reviews: I Love Huckabees - Christianity Today Movies
		They end up suspecting that life has meaning after all … even if they never figure out what it is. The danger in their approach is that it excuses misbehaviors as merely a necessary phase of the intellectual journey.
		If human hearts were perfect and trustworthy, then being true to them would be a fine idea.
		But our hearts and minds are flawed, and when we make our personal happiness the goal, what we achieve is fragile, temporary, and inferior to the joy that can be found in seeking to serve the One who designed us and who knows what is best.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/ilovehuckabees.html (1882 words)

	Offscreen :: David Owen Russell’s I ♥ Huckabees
		That is an unusual atmosphere, captured by cinematographer Peter Deming, for such a speculative film in which the lead character encounters forms of eastern philosophy and existentialism.
		Albert had found the firm’s business card in a jacket borrowed in a restaurant, where he was meeting Brad Stand (Jude Law), a representative of a chain store, Huckabees, and someone Albert’s working with in a coalition to save a marsh and nearby woods.
		Brad admits that he knows that working with the coalition will be good for Huckabees’ image but he’s doing it because he really cares—a smooth way of being honest and forthright about one’s commercial concerns.
	www.offscreen.com /biblio/phile/essays/huckabees (2088 words)

	I Heart Huckabees
		They are very nice body parts, which are being exploited by the conglomerate Huckabees, in their advertising.
		Tommy (a very funny Mark Wahlberg) is Albert’s ‘other,’ in working through the dilemmas posed by the detectives; though sometimes he prods Albert along a path he may not be ready for.
		If you wish, go with the flow and some of "I Heart Huckabees" may make sense to you.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/I/i_heart_huckabees.htm (346 words)

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