TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

katekenny-53022 Some people aren't ready to have their questions answered (assuming they have at least started asking coherent questions.) This movie doesn't answer anything so feel free to not take it seriously. Laugh with the absurdity if you can. Carry on tomorrow regaining a desire to disconnect just long enough to not be embarrassed to ask, even if the only question you can muster is "wtf?"

nyorkergurl There were a lot of different cool ideas going on in this film. It reminded me of if Collateral Beauty and Magnolia had a baby. Obviously, Collateral Beauty was....just embarrassingly bad. But this is what it was going for. Who am I? Am I defined by what I do? What is the meaning of life? Of bad things? Do they just happen? Do they mean nothing? What's the meaning behind coincidences? How will I ever be happy? How will I ever know my place? The film has a quirky and lighthearted way of delivering answers to these questions. It's not subtle. If you find that to be a negative, we can chalk that up to taste. Magnolia is an example of a film with a similar idea, but it was just much more subtle and took a lot longer. In Magnolia's attempt to show that some coincidences are random and some are not, the film by extension felt...kinda random and kinda not. I Heart Huckabees is short, concise, and jam packed with goodness. It's funny that some people who enjoyed this film still thought it was a mess, because I believe it knew exactly what it was doing. It was a delicately articulated and intentional mess. It's also interesting that people find this film to be pretentious, because it's quite the opposite. Exploring the questions it presents is not an easy task, and instead of sitting you down for three and a half hours and explaining the meaning of life to you, it does it through quirky comedy, and the unraveling of wacky characters that mimic us but are not the same as us trying to come to a conclusion, any conclusion. That's been me before. Maybe that's what it takes to like this film. Having "been there done that". Maybe there's no room to appreciate it if you simply can't relate. I've naturally come to the conclusion that life is a little bit of both, so I saw the twist coming. That didn't make the journey any less enjoyable for me. The daydream technique sequences, Brad and Albert's faces morphing together, the coincidence of two people being orphaned in completely different ways, characters continuously losing external things that they considered their identity, liking someone not for what they are but who they are, being a fraud, blaming everything bad that happens in the world on one thing, and finally, being connected through our pain. That's SO MANY IDEAS to try to put into one film. Sounds impossible to me. But, I Heart Huckabees pulled it off only by making it its own unique thing and doing it it's own way. Another lesson in its own. It was a grand and exuberant show from a distance, but all the little moments were more human and real than a lot of the more serious films I've seen. I do heart huckabees.

bkoganbing I Heart Huckabees has Jason Schwartzman seeing the same rather conspicuous stranger Ger Duany on three separate and unrelated occasions. Schwartzman's a guy who thinks way too much and apparently has a lot of money to spend. He hires a pair of 'existential detectives' to find if there's a meaning to all this. That means having detectives Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin following him around all day and making a report.Ger Duany is hard to miss, he's about 6'8" and is a Sudanese refugee and doorman in the building where Hoffman and Tomlin live. His reality is he's really glad to get out of Sudan where they don't have time to explore the meaning of life they just want to live it without being in the wrong religion in their neighborhood. He's an interesting contrast to the rest of the cast.Through various ways the whole cast is intertwined with each other, but then again the whole universe is which is what the film is trying to say. No use in me describing a plot it defies description. Just a series of interesting scenes with a smattering of coherency.There's a notion here that people are trying to do the right thing, but there's no real right or wrong because even standing up for your beliefs can sometimes be absurd. Best scene in the film is firefighter Mark Wahlberg whose main gripe against the world is the oil industry. Wahlberg instead of taking the fire truck to a call with the rest of his mates bicycles to the fire and cuts down on the profits of big oil. Carrying principles to the extreme don't you think.Huckabees by the way is the name of a department store chain that is forever in controversy every time it's the flagship store of another strip mall. Poor Jude Law who's in management is trying to broker a deal about a new mall which will destroy a swamp home to a lot of animals. See what happens to him trying to do the right thing as he conceives it.I Heart Huckabees is quirky and not for everyone's taste. There seems to be a divide of opinion I haven't seen except for religious films from current evangelical sources that you either love or hate. There are some interesting issues raised, but the overall quality of the film is uneven.

BjaminDS-1 This film made me laugh, I'll say that first. However, I can't say I was a huge fan of the movie as a whole. Individual scenes, like the dinner scene with the African boy, were funny to watch, but the movie felt like it was rambling at times. The existentialist speech was laid on too heavy, particularly at the beginning of the movie, which I found confusing. This may have been the intent, but it did not help the movie in my opinion. Schwartzman was really good in this movie and I found Mark Wahlberg surprising funny as well as the biking fire fighter. Performances were what drove this movie for me. I also enjoyed the bit parts for the then up and coming Jonah Hill and Isla Fisher. I'd say check this film out