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I'm Reed Fish is a nice movie about nice people leading nice, quiet little lives in a nice, quiet little town. If this sounds terrribly boring to you, well, you'd be right. I'm Reed Fish is actually a movie within a movie and, quite honestly, neither of them are impressive. The writing is painfully obvious throughout, to the extent that one can predict what the characters will say next with an alarmingly high success rate. Most of the performances are actually adaquate, but they are so limited by such a lack of imagination in direction and script that by the end they are tiresome as well. Despite these harsh criticism, however, I did not hate this film- not at all- and I want that to be clear. I'm Reed fish was too sweet and innocent to hate. It would be akin to downright hating the Coca-Cola polar bear cub, or a month-old kitten. I guess I'm saying I'm no monster, but neither do I like cats. If this movie was obnoxious, self-important, and full of false earnesty I'd have surely hated it. On the contrary, I'm Reed Fish was good-hearted and innocent and aimed for emotional sincerity all the way through...but it was so painfully dull and unmoving. By the end I was hoping someone would light something on fire, hoover a line of blow, or throw someone down the stairs, just to mix it up a little. (And trust me, I like plenty of movies that contain NONE of these things. But then again it's usually because they are good.) In the end, I suppose it may be that what really upsets me is the fact that this film was actually intented for loyal Gilmore Girls fans all along but somehow I ended up wasting my time on it.
