April 30, 2006

Thank You For Smoking

So yesterday some friends drove down the hill and dragged me off to see the late showing of young Jason Reitman's film adaptation of Christopher Buckley's satire. The film is far from deep, but it's highly amusing. If you ever have to deal with PR, marketing, legal, political or any other types that make their living through presenting persuasive arguments, well then I think you'll especially enjoy how it lands its punches. It's smart and funny - the best set pieces (I think) being the M.O.D. (Merchants of Death) Squad meetings and the hysterical trip to Los Angeles which features Rob Lowe and Adam Brody as ever-so wrong but ever-so right charicatures of Hollywood execs. Aaron Eckhart's performance cements the whole thing (he's great) and actually the prominent role played by his character's son (played by Cameron Bright) works surprisingly well. So if you just want to laugh for 90 minutes, this movie might be just what you are looking for.

And by the way, kudos to whoever designed the credits at the opening of the film. They are the best I've seen in a long time.

Posted by armand at April 30, 2006 11:20 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Movies


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