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My Life With Morrissey

My Life With Morrissey

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Rent Before You Buy!
Review: This movie is very low budget and mildly funny throughout. There are a few extra-funny moments. There are NO Smiths or Morrissey songs in this movie and, of course, Morrissey is not in this movie.

If you want to buy this movie because you are a big Morrissey fan you should reconsider.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: My Life with Morrissey is a sure Winner!!!
Review: This movie ROCKS!! I got a chance to see it in it's premiere in Hollywood and I loved it!. It's really funny and all the characters in it are well done.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I expected better
Review: This movie, made by Andrew Overtoom, came to my attention from an article in Video Business magazine. In that article, I learned three key points that made me quite interested in the movie:

***Andrew Overtoom is a director of Spongebob Squarepants.

***Overtoom came to be inspired to make the movie based on learning a co-worker of his spent the night outside trying to get tickets to a Morrissey concert.

***The great critical reviews I read on this movie.

Also, the fact that I love indy movies and Morrissey were also key factors in deciding to get this DVD.
And based on those factors, I bought this DVD without ever watching it first, and I just watched it first recently. It was quite a disappointing experience.

First, I associate Overtoom with contemporary, quirky humor that appeals to a broad demographic. While I certainly wasn't expecting Spongebob type humor in this movie, I expected something a bit more intelligent than your average movie. What we get instead are insults to intelligence and the humor often fails to hit the mark.

Second, I knew she would never really meet Morrissey in this movie (though maybe she did, depending how you interpret the scene in question) as Morrissey declined all of Overtoom's invitations and requests to appear in the movie and to have his music included in the movie. What I didn't expect was that we would get a movie that just as well could have been about her obsession for Jay Leno or Martha Stewart or any other celebrity imaginable. The fact that this is about Morrissey is null and void and has nothing to do with the movie.

Third, given Overtoom has previous experience, I expected something a tad more polished. I didn't expect a perfectly made movie, but I've seen better home made projects at conventions and also posted on the Internet. This movie isn't a great indy work, and it doesn't even rise to the standard of a good home made movie. It's horrendous in both the over acting and the actors who just stand on screen and are completely forgettable. Doesn't Overtoom know at least ONE qualified actor in the business? Apparently not. I am surprised that he couldn't get some of the more talented voice actors to work on this movie (like Comic Book the Movie, a great indy movie everybody should see instead of this).

In short, this movie doesn't celebrate Morrissey fans, and it makes a mockery of the proclaimed Morrissey fan it does portray, and in the end, the Morrissey fan trades her fandom for another celebrity. It's not about the fans, it's about sick people who are over obsessed about something they think is perfect and they think would make their life so much better. This movie could have been used with any celebrity as the object of desire because it's not about the fans of that celebrity but about the obsession and sickness of the fan.

I understand Overtoom delivered a copy of this movie to Morrissey's house, and left it on the lawn, as he did not answer the door. I can only imagine the horror Morrissey felt to see his image used so poorly in this movie (I am especially thinking of the sex doll scene, among many others.) I would have been embarrassed to think Morrissey saw this if I had made it.

I give the movie ZERO stars, and I give the 30 minute bonus feature about Morrissey fans on the DVD one star.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ya'll are nuts, watch this movie!!!
Review: Yo this film is sooo bizarre and frigging witty and downright hysterical. It is so coool. I was shocked to see the crappy reviews. Moz fans with senses of humor will pee themselves, but you neednt know anything about or care about Morrissey to love this film. Miss it at your own peril! Destined to be a cult classic.


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