Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

paulccarroll3 I saw this film for the first time,and two nights later I woke with the memory of the answer to the mystery behind the Homeless mans' attacks.In the film Brian was said to be 15 years younger than his brothers, that He was a child that was born late in his parents marriage. After killing the homeless attacking man Brian turns to the two witnesses,as he's holding a bloody knife in his hand,and says,as they're backing away,that this has been going on a long time,or words to that effect.In my dream it became clear that the homeless man was a bastard son,who was never recognized by Brians'father, who then watched Brian be raised in his place. His attacks are from hatred and jealousy. Brian ironically wants to bring new blood into the family by adopting an baby. Of course, none of this was in the film,but neither was any other explanation,so it's just as valid as a possible suggested solution.As to the point of why Happy was so upset by Brains adopting a child,I saw this as a feeble attempt to keep to the standard boy meets girl, boy loses girl,boy wins girl back, rom/com plotting, and I didn't buy it for a minute. This isn't a great film but it's pleasant and interesting enough to watch once every few years or so.

tigerfish50 "Gigantic's" main protagonist is twenty-eight year old Brian - a morose, monosyllabic mattress salesman. Some jaded film-goers might feel they've watched Paul Dano portray Brian's charisma-free loner cousins overplaying their quirkiness in far too many Indie projects. In 'Gigantic' Brian possesses the stubborn ambition to adopt a Chinese baby - a plot contrivance which appears principally designed to distract from his stupefying dullness. Despite being single, earning little money and suffering from violent hallucinations, he considers himself good parent material, and an irresponsible adoption agency is helping him achieve his goal. The story begins when Al Lolly, an overweight businessman with chronic back problems, visits the gloomy warehouse where Brian is employed. Big Al purchases an expensive mattress and later sends his beautiful daughter to settle the bill. When she arrives, it's quickly apparent that Happy Lolly equals Brian in the quirk department. She asks him to help transport her father to a chiropractic appointment, and while they wait for Al to conclude his treatment, Happy inquires whether Brian would be interested to have sex with her. He doggedly obliges in the underground car park, and the loony lovers embark on their lukewarm love affair. The romance doesn't amount to much - almost immediately Happy expresses her quirkiness with lame attempts to escape the relationship, while Brian continues obsessing about Chinese babies. Like it or leave it - that's how love is in Indie-World.'Gigantic's' script is a strangely schizophrenic beast - the main story is the lovers' moth-eaten romance, but the sub-plots contain some offbeat black humor, providing John Goodman, Ed Asner, Jane Alexander, Clarke Peters and Zooey Deschanel with the raw material to create some original characters. Somehow, mysteriously, their combined talents manage to keep 'Gigantic' afloat while Dano impersonates a sack of potatoes in the central role.

samkan A film can be a well intentioned disaster. A true turkey may still exude sincerity. Hard work and serious thought can be evident despite descent into a cinematic mess. A movie can be terrible without me taking it personally. But I can count on one hand the number of films that I have seen that did not have any right to be made. GIGANTIC is one of them.If glib means showing little forethought or preparation, lacking depth and substance, being superficial; if pretension is making unjustified or excessive claims of value or standing; if facetious means jesting in a clumsy or inappropriate manner, then GIGANTIC's poster should appear next to the dictionary entries for each such word.Misters Nagata and Aselton appear to believe that every idea they have is clever and that throwing together a few dozen such ideas, be they subplots, humor vehicles or inane bits of dialog, is homework enough. The two share the delusion their audience is embracing their work with subtle understanding. They mistake confusion as nuance or ambiguity. Just what was it that suggested to Adam and Matt that, in this instance, they had the material and ingenuity enough to create something remotely approaching a feature length film? Dano still manages to shine. Goodman and Asner are still funny. Deschanel cannot act. Never could. After over a hundred IMDb Comments I've only seen fit to enter two or three as scathing as this one and I get trashed every time. Could not stop myself. GIGANTIC compels me so.

sfiver ing cast makes this film interesting. John Goodman, Ed Asner and (all to briefly) Jane Alexander. Just in case you've not read the other reviewers: Unconventional mattress salesman meets rich girl. Mattress salesman wants Chinese baby to fulfill his life. Rich girl wants ... ? These two characters fall into love as they attempt to understand it. The End. Again, John Goodman as the mafia-type father of Happy, played by Zooey Deschanel, adds luster and laughs. Asner is the 80-year old dad of mattress salesman Brian, played by Paul Dano. Unconventional character even more so then his son. Asner has fun with the role. Ms. Alexander is the only near-normal, mother-like character as Brian's mother. She seems to be the only character who understands what's happening. This is not some offbeat film. It has excellent production values, editing, music, photography, etc. Equally important, it keeps your attention on various levels. Sub-plots so-to-speak. But, no spoilers here. The story is offbeat. Furthermore, while Mr. Dano carries his "offbeat" role as the uncanny, maternal 20-something with sympathetic depth, Ms. Deschannel does not connect with her character at all. She certainly has promise and frankly I look forward to seeing her in other roles. Unfortunately, she is only "eye-candy" and to some extent reduces the entire production. The film is still worthwhile, but only a 4/10 for ing cast and story.