Reviews for writer/director Deborah Kampmeier’s movie “Hounddog” (or as it’s more commonly known as, “The Dakota Fanning Gets Rape Movie”) are coming in, and AICN’s Quint has chimed in. It’s a well-written review, which is something you don’t expect from AICN. I mean, come on, these guys can barely string three sentences together without mentioning candy and hot how Natalie Portman is. (She is pretty hot, by the way, and candy is quite tasty.) In any case, here are some highlights from Quint’s review: “I expected the rape scene to be uncomfortable and hard to view, even after the filmmakers struck back at the criticism saying that the scene in question lasts all of 20 seconds and is shown mostly off camera. That is true, but I didn’t expect to feel dirty watching the entire movie, where we get flashes of Fanning’s underwear every other scene.”
He goes on to say:
There’s nothing worse than seeing good actors trying to emote through a bad southern accent. We get a ton of that in this movie… This movie is trying to be really, really important and it just isn’t.
But my favorite part of the review? This one killed me:
In fact, the movie isn’t even entertainingly bad until the David Morse character randomly gets struck by lightning and spends the rest of the movie a mongoloid. No shit. And yes, it is funny. Sometimes they’re going for the humor, most of the time they’re not. I particularly like the part where Morse gives himself a hair cut because Fanning got one and he wants to be like her, giving him a shitty Prince Valiant cut for the last 40 minutes of the movie.
Har har. I’d pay to see that. I mean, I love David Morse, and I’d pay to see him acting all mongoloid-ish.
Read the rest of the review here.
Look out for that lightning, David!
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