prety neat dark comedy though I would have liked it alot more if it was a little darker. Think donnie darko but lighter and you pretty much get the chumscrubber.
Excelent movie...
I wanted to see this movie so bad and when it hitted blockbuster shelf...Im sure i was the first person to rent it...
I wanted to buy it but i never get it and i try to buy the blockbuster copy but it was the original copy..time pass and the movie just went off...
But its one the best movie i ever watch...Jamie Bell plays great in this teenagers drama
Weird fucking movie, but very damn cool. Kind of weird in the same way that Donnie Darko or Lost Highway is. I love it when characters start out seeming normal and as the film develops they get more quirky and fucked up. Definitely recommend this movie.
One of those films that seems very odd and strange but has a lingering message with it. The film follows a teen whose best friend kills himself but he doesn't tell anyone because he feels that the people in the town wouldn't care.
Poor character development, weak plot, and not so great acting. I just don't like Camilla Belle. This movie was filled with unrealistic events and unbelievable sequences. Shit in that movie would never happen! I felt like the movie was trying too hard to be "deep" or "thought provoking".
I was so impressed. I loved how this film could have it's humour but yet be so dark and edgy. Execellent portrayal of how things really aren't what they seem from the outside. The storyline can relate to absolutely anyone, which i found appealing.
Now this is one is messed up. And that's exactly what makes this movie so great. A very very interesting drama-dark comedy, about the perfect life in a modern day suburbia and the not so perfect hidden personalities and issues many of the people have, had or will eventually develop.
Dean (Jamie Bell) a normal teenager finds his best friend hanged. He doesn't bother to announce the tragedy because he thinks nobody cares. Dean's dead friend Troy was the one who was selling drugs to all of the highschool, so some other characters (already too many spoilers), think that Dean knows where Troy kepy his stash, and from here on their lives will change.
The typical perfection found in a perfect suburbia that looks amazing from the outside but which is actually burning in the inside. Awesome movie with very good acting, and a lot of pottential.
I don't know what to think about this movie. It's very odd and awkward. I bet it's intentional, but still... it left me going "What the hell?!!". Towards the ending the pieces start to fit, but it's just a really weird movie. I expected more from it.
maybe i wasnt in the right frame of mind for this film.it had a fantastic cast but while i was watching it,i just couldnt wait for it to end.i think i will leave it six months and try and watch it again.
Why have people not noticed this film. If it wasn't for me browsing the video store in my younger years I would never have known it existed.
This film it a really deeply strange and engrossing film that it really not like anything you've seen. That all I can say.
If you're bored with Hollywood, take a look here, or stop complaining.
The multitude of characters that they included in The Chumscrubber were all interesting, and I never found myself confused at any point, but I felt that they could have left some people out, and concentrated more on others - Glenn Close's character for instance. Speaking of GC, she was at the top of her game here, and I see that Camilla Belle's abilities have improved slightly since her When A Stranger Calls days. I didn't enjoy the seemingly random violence against Charlie towards the end, but overall, the dark comedy was rather amusing. *UPDATE* Apparently C. Belle did this film BEFORE When A Stranger Calls. So perhaps, her acting is getting worse.
I remember being disappointed by this film. It didn?t portray American suburbia the way I was hoping. (also i little shout out to robert - Camilla Belle was in this before she was in When a Stranger Calls...how embarassing for you)
Outstanding cast and ingenious script. The monster (or monster creator) that is indifference or perhaps hypocrisy run amuck. Do you know where your children are? Do you know WHO they are? This is about how disconnected we've all become due mostly with our own self-absorbtion and our basic failure to communicate. This is dark and often comical and a more than a lil preachy - but entertaining enough you won't mind.
A very nice surprise. Extremely intriguing and intelligent plot as well as complex and interesting characters. Has both humor and tragedy, cleverly brought together and it could take a second watch to catch it all. The teen cast, which by the way doesn't make it a teen flick at all, does a very good job and Glenn Close and Ralph Fiennes, playing secondary characters, are definitely an extra to this very well made and suprisingly enjoyable film.
Jamie Bell and the Culkin gene are wonderful in the darkest sharpest film I've seen in months. It's kind of like Donnie Darko in that it centres around a dead guy with the same post-death voice as Frank the rabbit, and also every character in the film is completely fucked up, and also the soundtrack is awesome (except for that annoying Snow Patrol song). 'The Chumscrubber' accentuates the black comedy rather than the heavy plot, which really pays off, especially at the end when some jolly fairground music accompanies an infitting finale- irony pours out of this beautiful film. Camilla Belle's character is very irritating, but all the actors are pretty good, including Ralph Fiennes. More like this please...
Not too bad, but the middle act is quite boring. It has some snappy lines and funny characters, but it falls short in being a long standing awesome cult film. Good cast and performances, and well made.
Putting aside the advertising of the movie, which would have you believe it's all about how our society has let itself be taken over by "happy pills," this unique film follows through on something I'm always glad to see: a story. The scene of suicide at the beginning doesn't go for the cheap scare, instead letting the viewer react to it in their own way. Right off the bat, I understood that the movie had a respect for its audience that is rare to see nowadays. The performances are sublimely wonderful here, with Jamie Bell and Mr. Fiennes leading the way. The super-tidiness juxtaposed by the lunacy that jumps from one scene to another prevents it from compromising originality. The Chumscrubber, who shows up at various times during the story, establishes himself as an icon for a generation, but unless it's in a comic or video game, people seem to let it pass right by them. He symbolizes and defeats the idea of the hopeless teenager. This is reflected in Bell's character. This is his journey. It just goes to show that anyone can lose their head and still have a sense of humor about it. This is definitely one to watch if you are a little fed-up with the world. We all have a chumscrubber inside of us, somewhere...
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