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Easily one of my all time favorite comedies, mainly because it took the whole genre of comedy into the next level, the comedy genre which was seen as slapstick, sometimes cheesy, naive and stupid, have now been changed, the Coen brothers proved, that it can be more than clever script and good performances, it can be hilarious music videos, good story and characters.
Although i didn't like the part where Sam Elliott narrates the story, but as the movie progress, you forget it and starts looking into the life of the dude, where Jeff Bridges deliver the performance of a life time, a guy who plays bowling, have no job or responsibilities and drinks himself to sleep every day have never sounds so interesting before, along side that are his friends, played by John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, where every scenes with those three are comedy golds, i was amazed by the characters, the funny lines, the timing and most importantly, the relationship between them, it was pure magic, i can see each scene 10 times and i wouldn't get bored, in fact, i would notice something new every-time, because with each line delivered by one of those three, you can see so much impressions, it's like those guys have known each-others for years.
The writing was very clever, and had so many references that you don't expect to see in comedy movies, mainly because comedy directors want a large demographic for their movies, so they don't jump into unknown territories, but this movie baldly talks about Pacifism, Nihilistism, Nazis and off course, the "camel fucker" Saddam Hussein, and the movie proudly kick those things in the context, showing you that those people might be broke, irresponsible and lazy but they have knowledge about things, specially John Goodman character who served time in Vietnam and now he likes to connect everything that happens to politics and nam and it's hilarious.
When the dude gets high, he goes into a happy place, a hilarious original music video, with visuals and a mix of real and fiction and it's one of most creative things about this movie, where it pump you up with a positive energy and make you feel so happy, and the movie is extremely quotable, although the script was clever, it still simple and get repeated enough times that you start to memorize it.
John Goodman performance here is something i never have seen before, he's the exact opposite of the dude, which made it a blast to watch, and Philip Seymour Hoffman performance was fantastic (as usual), Julianne Moore was surprisingly annoying, i mean she had a weird accent, i don't know why, and the movie had so much characters, even a cameo of an actor presented itself extremely well, i don't think that any of the actors was there to fill a spot, everyone made me laugh, that's why it's a good comedy, it centers around three guys but everyone was hilarious.
Overall, it's a pure comedy from start to finish, and what all comedies should be, story, characters, writing, dialog and most of all performances, because whoever said that good performances only in drama clearly never watched this movie.
7/10
