Catfight

Catfight has an interesting screenplay that sets a spiralling cataclysm between two women against a political right-shift and Middle East war. The entire film is absurd, bordering on surreal, and unfortunately any social commentary is undermined by this tone. What is left is simply two women punching each other two years into the future, to classical music. Oh and Heche are great. The fight sequences are ridiculous. The sound editing is obnoxious. And the film is just unsatisfying.

Everything between the fights plays like it's simply a vehicle to get you to the next confrontation. Well acted though. These leads are well matched, however I wish we could have had more face to face scenes to build tension rather than jumping right in to the scraps. The foley team got their value out of the meat slammers as well.

Turn up the Beethoven and watch two grown women messily kick the shit out of each other as a metaphor for something. What else does a movie need, really?

Weird comedy structured around violent slapsticky encounters but containing elements of bitter tragicomedy & scattered social satire. None of it hits its mark to a tee but the consistent underlining sense of cathartic hostility ties everything together. The writing is clever enough to hook you but not quite clever enough to deliver fully satisfying punchlines. The rigid & vaguely allegorical structure works against it by the end but the two leads are great & get to show a lot of comedic range.

Catfight is a movie that wants to throw a punch at you, but never musters the courage to do so. Then it wants to talk about things adults talk about but ends up just talking big. In the corner. To itself. Everybody is slightly bonkers, but never enough to be properly bizarre. Comedy bits? Must have missed them. The whole experience is like watching a mass fight in parliament with classical music in the background because wouldn't that be funny? In fact, compared to this it probably would.

This film has some really intense and exciting fight scenes. Both Sandra Oh and Anne Heche are good here and they put together many memorable fights scenes in this film. The script is original and full of some surprises. Overall I would highly recommend this film.

Odd, surreal comedy which never develops its one-joke idea as well as you would like, and uneasily tries to mix in some underbaked social satire for good measure. The whole enterprise feels underdone, except for the three catfights which are beautifully, painfully (and hilariously) executed, with both Heche and Oh not afraid to play ugly in every sense of the word. Fun, but frustrating that more wasn't done with such a socko premise.

An interesting farce that could have been sharper.

basit, eğlenceli ve düşünceli.

Getting kind of a class/society vibe from this one

If you find the one joke this film has funny it can be quite enjoyable.

muito divertido

an especially dark comedy, often just predicated on "verbal abuse haha." a depiction of the cycle of abuse, kinda. still somewhat thought provoking and funny at times (esp. the politics)

Tries to do a dozen different things and never manages to do any of them well. None of the characters resonate, in part because the pacing is a mess. The half-assed, meandering attempts at satire don't help. At least it's comfortable leaning into its own weirdness.

Tukel's character in APPLESAUCE namedropped Neil Postman in an obvious authorial statement, and this is an obvious attempt to dramatize some of the key ideas of TECHNOPOLY and AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH. Obviousness is the problem: the jokes on that theme are weak, sub-30 ROCK fart-machine stuff, and the ending's statement on the social and personal cost of taking cues from tech isn't enough to overcome the contrived construction. But there are some real laughs and committed performances.

Les actrices sont habitées par leur rôle, spécialement Anne Heche qui est une vipère peigne-cul qu'on adore détester. C'est répétitif mais génial.