Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

keegankirkhart It was fascinating to see the struggles of being old, middle aged, and then young. It was also fun to explore the idea of affairs, seizing the moment, a mother who loves you no matter what, and loving someone...no matter their age or appearance. Lots of life lessons in this one and I would definitely watch it again.

classicsoncall I think this film works as an example of how ordinary human beings can do extraordinary things when they have a desire to overcome their limitations and seek out a greater world outside themselves. The story is a uniquely creative and original one, told from the perspective of one principal character aging normally, and the other regressing after having been born 'an old man'. Their lives 'intersect' at the age of forty three, at which point Benjamin (Brad Pitt) begins coming to grips with the idea that he and Daisy (Cate Blanchett) are ultimately destined to live out their lives in separate ways. I do have a problem though with the timing of Benjamin's departure. The movie did a terrific job of restoring him back to a youthful looking young man over time, and it seemed to me that he could have enjoyed at least a decade with his daughter before heading off to parts unknown. His admonition that he didn't want to be her 'playmate' seemed hollow when Caroline was just a small child and he was still in his thirties. So that part of the story I think could have been handled a bit better. But otherwise, I thought this was a cleverly written story that also managed to reflect warmly on the racial component of having Benjamin raised by a black woman (Taraji P. Henson) who he considered his Mama. Interjecting the story with those humorous moments of the seven times lightning man was also quite brilliant, lending some welcome comic relief moments to a story that tended to get somber at times.

Carlos André At first, I wasn't giving that much for this movie, I was like "oh, ok, it's a history where the main character is born old and get younger every day, but, what can you do with it?", and, omg, the movie is surprisingly good!The movie brings a cool message about life, that makes you think a lot about how you deal with your life, or how you had so much good things, but doesn't give them the attention that they really deserve. That is certainly the most amazing thing about the movie, it make you rethink almost everything that you do. The script is well done, the mix with the history line in the present give us something else to care about, besides the history of Benjamin Button (I just dont get it whats the relevence of the hurricane, but ok), and also tells his history in a clever way. At the beggining it bother me a little bit, but after a while it engages. The cast is really really good. Of course, Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt are the biggest highlight, both are amazing in the roles, but the supporting cast is also very good.The only main issue that I have with the movie is the CGI in some parts, mostly in the scenes where Benjamin is "young" (or old, I don't know), look, I know that it's hard to do something like that, make a person that at the same time that is young is old to, but, sadly, for me the CGI take you out of the movie in the beggining, but that is it, I think that with one hour of movie, is alredy Brad Pitt there, just with make up (that by the way, is AMAZING).In short, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a great film, with amazing direction and photography, some really great actors, and certainly worth your time.8,5/10

Robert J. Maxwell A sweet sentimental tale of a man, Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button, who is born in 1918 New Orleans as a diminutive and withered old man and dies in the 1970s as an infant suffering from dementia. Actually, Benjamin Button is not only Brad Pitt, but is played by Peter Badalamenti at the age of around ten, and by Robert Towers as a slightly older teen-aged Benjamin Button. The casting is marvelous. So is the makeup. It took me some time to realize that the ghostly pale, withered figure, the ancient lady wheezing out a few hoarse words and dying in the hospital bed, was Cate Blanchett.It's hard to resist the story. Benjamin Button is an appealing character, soft spoken, honest, and polite. He speaks little and acts mostly as an observer of everyday life in New Orleans, with occasional visits to Murmansk, New York, Paris, and other far-away-place with strange sounding names. It's a very Southern movie in many respects, slow, like Button himself, contrasting the quiet, colorful characters of New Orleans with the rambunctious snobbery of the New York ballet set, the sterility of Paris's hospital room, and the danger and bloodshed of Russia. But, insallah, we do not see a Mardi Gras in New Orleans, just the patient, gracious sound of a ragtime piece played on the appropriately named piano. We only hear a few notes of the ragtime and they're played simply and slowly, like the film itself. The overscore traces the plot with fairy tale harps and celeste.The performances are pretty good all around. Cate Blanchett, of course, is unforgettable -- a fine actress with the most memorable nose in today's movies. Brad Pitt, I didn't care for earlier in his career, another hunk for teens to swoon over, showing his behind as well as the rest of his jacked up body in "Troy." But I've come to appreciate his range after comparing his recedent personality here with his maniacal psychopath in "Kalifornia." Julia Ormond doesn't have much to do as the daughter of Pitt and Blanchett.It's an engaging movie -- I couldn't get away from it -- and the photography and lighting are exceptionally good but I had a problem with the plot. It's a tear jerker. The thing is laid out like an obstacle course. Brief moments of happiness, fame, success are inevitably followed by tragedy. Benjamin Button is a little like Hercule Poirot. When he's around, somebody is going to die, except that, to ratchet up the sentiment quotient, the person who dies must be someone that Button loves or has learned to respect. One by one, his family and friends disappear, usually because of some unnamed disease, as Ali McGraw did in "Love Story." Pitt is given lines that reflect his keen insight, such as, "You can curse the fates; you can go round the moon; but when the end comes you have to let go." The centerpiece of the tale is the relationship between Blanchett, who ages from a ten-year-old girl to a dying old woman, and Pitt, who ages from a sepulchral old man to a dying little baby. That particularly relationship is nicely structured. Blanchett and Pitt have their happiest moments in mid life when they are both the same age. It dampens the manipulative effect of all those unending tragedies.