| Full Frontal | | Cast : | David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts | | Director : | Steven Soderbergh | | Studio : | Buena Vista Home Vid | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | July 05, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | February 11, 2005 | | Summary | diluted tenderness, lazy vocabulary | Content
 | When a script utilizes the f-word ten times in a scene at a traffic light, I find myself wanting to beam in a thesaurus. I do not care for excessive profanity, partially due to personal convictions, but also due to what repetitive profanity represents artistically--a lazy vocabulary. Passion and anger and shock and dejection and even annoyance cannot effectively receive proper expression by the same handful of vulgarities. In this story in particular, characterization is blurred by poorly articulated emotions.
Tenderness which peaks out during the final scenes might have resonated more richly had the script employed more creative lines and less repetion of a generic shock-word which typically dulled the audience's comprehension of a character's motives and intentions.
Nearly all actors involved served their parts well. Julia Roberts' role seemed underdeveloped (not her fault), and Nicky the Nazi felt cartoonish and tacked onto the otherwise love and lust driven plot.
Filming technique enhanced more than it detracted. Music was generally apropos. The varying storylines intersected well, and the concise production length enabled the viewer's sufficient emotional investment in each tale. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 12, 2004 | | Summary | funny and unusual | Content
| This was an interesting a strange looking film, but entertaining. At first it was hard to understand what was happening but then it all came together. The acting is very good. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 29, 2004 | | Summary | The worst film I've ever seen. | Content
| After about an hour into this film I asked my friend if we could leave. He wanted to stay because we'd already paid for the tickets. I told him that I didn't care taht I would want these couple of hours of my life back later. I was right.
There was nothing remotely entertaining about the film. I often enjoy bad art for the sake of bad art but this was undigestable. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 10, 2004 | | Summary | It's a bit out there, yet still entertaining. | Content
| Ever since I saw `Traffic', I have been catching up on what I have been missing of the brilliance of Stephen Soderbergh. Full Frontal, though extremely stripped down and roughed out, is still interesting and entertaining enough inspire repeat viewings; and each viewing became more entertaining than the last. If you enjoy a mixed bag of interpersonal relationships with a bit of satire and improvisation that doesn't take itself too seriously, this is the film for you. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 12, 2004 | | Summary | Full Confusion | Content
| I expected more from this highly touted film by Steven Soderbergh but sadly I felt lost and unaffected throughout the entire experience.
I know this film is supposed to be artsy and creative, something profound that only a few really dedicated souls can figure out. I understand the movie within a movie concept and I get the need for all the grainy, jittery camera shots but I think this film went too far into the ozone layer for the average person to comprehend its full meaning.
David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood, and a few other notables did good acting jobs but their characters were never really explained and then when they were things changed anyway so the theories once held were quickly swept away. David Duchovny is the "frontal" that caused all the uproar when this film originally opened, but if you blink you will miss what you came to see and it's dead anyway!
I hoped for more from Soderbergh but the interesting writing found on a few of the stories never seemed to tie all together in the end. I walked away completely confused and unsatisfied; it just wasn't a picture for me.
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