Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

nyorkergurl There were a lot of different cool ideas going on in this film. It reminded me of if Collateral Beauty and Magnolia had a baby. Obviously, Collateral Beauty was....just embarrassingly bad. But this is what it was going for. Who am I? Am I defined by what I do? What is the meaning of life? Of bad things? Do they just happen? Do they mean nothing? What's the meaning behind coincidences? How will I ever be happy? How will I ever know my place? The film has a quirky and lighthearted way of delivering answers to these questions. It's not subtle. If you find that to be a negative, we can chalk that up to taste. Magnolia is an example of a film with a similar idea, but it was just much more subtle and took a lot longer. In Magnolia's attempt to show that some coincidences are random and some are not, the film by extension felt...kinda random and kinda not. I Heart Huckabees is short, concise, and jam packed with goodness. It's funny that some people who enjoyed this film still thought it was a mess, because I believe it knew exactly what it was doing. It was a delicately articulated and intentional mess. It's also interesting that people find this film to be pretentious, because it's quite the opposite. Exploring the questions it presents is not an easy task, and instead of sitting you down for three and a half hours and explaining the meaning of life to you, it does it through quirky comedy, and the unraveling of wacky characters that mimic us but are not the same as us trying to come to a conclusion, any conclusion. That's been me before. Maybe that's what it takes to like this film. Having "been there done that". Maybe there's no room to appreciate it if you simply can't relate. I've naturally come to the conclusion that life is a little bit of both, so I saw the twist coming. That didn't make the journey any less enjoyable for me. The daydream technique sequences, Brad and Albert's faces morphing together, the coincidence of two people being orphaned in completely different ways, characters continuously losing external things that they considered their identity, liking someone not for what they are but who they are, being a fraud, blaming everything bad that happens in the world on one thing, and finally, being connected through our pain. That's SO MANY IDEAS to try to put into one film. Sounds impossible to me. But, I Heart Huckabees pulled it off only by making it its own unique thing and doing it it's own way. Another lesson in its own. It was a grand and exuberant show from a distance, but all the little moments were more human and real than a lot of the more serious films I've seen. I do heart huckabees.

bkoganbing I Heart Huckabees has Jason Schwartzman seeing the same rather conspicuous stranger Ger Duany on three separate and unrelated occasions. Schwartzman's a guy who thinks way too much and apparently has a lot of money to spend. He hires a pair of 'existential detectives' to find if there's a meaning to all this. That means having detectives Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin following him around all day and making a report.Ger Duany is hard to miss, he's about 6'8" and is a Sudanese refugee and doorman in the building where Hoffman and Tomlin live. His reality is he's really glad to get out of Sudan where they don't have time to explore the meaning of life they just want to live it without being in the wrong religion in their neighborhood. He's an interesting contrast to the rest of the cast.Through various ways the whole cast is intertwined with each other, but then again the whole universe is which is what the film is trying to say. No use in me describing a plot it defies description. Just a series of interesting scenes with a smattering of coherency.There's a notion here that people are trying to do the right thing, but there's no real right or wrong because even standing up for your beliefs can sometimes be absurd. Best scene in the film is firefighter Mark Wahlberg whose main gripe against the world is the oil industry. Wahlberg instead of taking the fire truck to a call with the rest of his mates bicycles to the fire and cuts down on the profits of big oil. Carrying principles to the extreme don't you think.Huckabees by the way is the name of a department store chain that is forever in controversy every time it's the flagship store of another strip mall. Poor Jude Law who's in management is trying to broker a deal about a new mall which will destroy a swamp home to a lot of animals. See what happens to him trying to do the right thing as he conceives it.I Heart Huckabees is quirky and not for everyone's taste. There seems to be a divide of opinion I haven't seen except for religious films from current evangelical sources that you either love or hate. There are some interesting issues raised, but the overall quality of the film is uneven.

kosmasp This right here is a very weird movie. And "Three Kings" (previous movie by the same director) does not prepare you for what you're about to see. A movie that tries to handle our being/existing in this world and especially tries to creep into a mind of someone who tries to uncover the "meaning" of .. well everything.Does it succeed? It does succeed in being weird and awkward that is for sure. It has the right actors to give it that special vibe too. Dustin Hoffman could sell you that sheet (and the idea of all being one and the same more or less), even Mark Wahlberg (also seen in Three Kings) can handle the craziness with ease. It's Schwartzmanns movie though and he runs with the wild ideas of the script. Will this movie give you answers to possible questions you had? No. Will it be able to entertain you? Depends on your mood and expectations

marianna050996 I watched this movie in my English class to learn a little more about existentialism along with reading the book the stranger I am only a senior in high school and completely understood this movie as strange and abstract as it maybe i have a few ideas for a thesis on a paper I am writing using the movie and the book: Ultimately you can only fix your own problems but together you can fix the world. People only care when there is a problem. When you betray others you betray yourself. In order to be successful you must be liked by society. Repeating yourself to get your point across only leads to insanity. You only realize what you had after you lose it all. Pain exist in the past and in the future but if you live day by day you can be completely indifferent and emotionless.Those are my ideas so far.