Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Girl Sparks (2007)

An overlong surrealist Japanese teen comedy about finding happiness while feeling insignificant. There is some funny and touching stuff here: A stumbling pair of male teens who both start the same sentences at the same time and then giggle at each other, a father who is desperate to connect with his daughter and through his failed attempts to do so connects with all the other male characters in the film (all of whom end up living at his house and working at his screw factory). Unfortunately, these characters are not the focus and are forced to take a back seat to a whiny, unlikable protagonist who kicks the wall a lot. At one point though, the director asks her from behind the camera if she would like to star in porn later which was a pretty interesting move, so its not like this was a film without merit, you just have to wade through some infantile ranting to get there.

Grade: B-

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