Igby Goes Down (or Heesa Got Lotsa Moneey! Boo Hoo!)

We picked this one up for a fiver at local Morrisons (actually it was less than that, it was two for a fiver - we picked up Josie and the Pussycats as well - Parker Posey ROCKS in that film!) That is something akin to buying a mink coat at WA Salvage.

Not that the film is that classy. It has a brilliant cast: Sarandon, Pullman, Goldblum, Danes, PhillipE, Peet and an overabundance of Culkins, and they all do really well but it is all a little hollow. Sure, it is supposed to be, since it is all about the malaise of the American upper class. It is just a little meh. Everyone is walking around with plums in their mouths (PhillipE is the worst) complaining about Igby, while Igby slums it and swears at them.

I have a creeping suspicion that Igby Goes Down is trying to be Catcher In The Rye for the socialite set but swap vitriol for petulance and petty adolescent rebellion and the whole premise falls apart. You'd be better of titling this Igby Hissy Fits or Igby Pouts About.

I am selling the film short. It is very funny in parts, so funny that it is almost saved from meh-ness. Rent it and watch it the whole way through for the final ring around scene. Priceless.

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