Bright Young Things

Sorry for the brevity of my review, but since i cannot describe this pallid, effeminate crap pile of a movie without violating the "No Profanity" rule on User Reviews, i'll just say ... thank God it isn't a wide release...... Full review

Watching Stephen Fry making his directorial debut is a little bit like watching a toddler the first time he rides a bike without stabilisers. Things are dangerously wobbly to begin with then smooth out nicely as self-belief grows before everything... Full review

Actor Stephen Fry makes an impressive splash as a director with Bright Young Things, based on the Evelyn Waugh novel, Vile Bodies. The story centers on some struggling "bright young things" during the years before England entered World War II.... Full review

British Boredom at it's worst. Should have remained a decent noval and kept out of the hands of film people. It was nice to hear English spoken again but otherwise it meant very llittle to me. Unless you love real English,... Full review

What a disappointment! This should have been a slam dunk, but Stephen Fry's direction doesn't just miss the boat, it misses the ocean. The whole point of Evelyn Waugh's novel was that these were vacuous, overindulged, rich people. In this movie... Full review

This was a very good movie for Forigen entertainment. It was very intriguing. The story was very bland and hard to get through. It was like a swamp of do not need to know details. I liked this movie because it... Full review

"Bright Young Things" is a mostly effective satire, with some jarring seriousness thrown in, of "Masterpiece Theater" Jazz Age costume dramas for its first seven-eighths. Set in the same period as "Gosford Park," its conflicts are just within the sexual... Full review

What a fantastic movie, delightfully charming, unrelentingly affable and irresistibly likable. Brilliant acting, excellent realisation and direction; this movie was a joy to watch. A bittersweet love story interwoven with a hilarious array of eccentric English upper class characters from... Full review

"Bright Young Things" is a very stylish adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel, "Vile Bodies". I felt the film captured the snarky satire tone of the novel and was a fairly decent effort on the part of Stephen Fry who... Full review

This is one of the best films I have seen in a while. I was lucky to be able to catch it at Washington, DC's International Film Fest, but I hope that it gets a proper U.S. release date soon.The... Full review

The movie is about sinful pleasures and the follies of youth--and it's a ball to watch. The spine of the story is the blighted romance of Adam and Nina, set against this backdrop of desperate frivolity, with the next war lurking in the wings. ... Full Review

Performances from the high calibre ensemble cast is uniformly excellent, although I have a niggling misgiving about Dan Aykroyd's press baron. And the 94 year old John Mills makes a heroic cameo sniffing cocaine for the first time on screen You'll have to see the film to understand. ... Full Review

Bright Young Things is about love, but also about other things, including celebrity and fame, of which Fry himself has seen a fair bit. And when people ask, did you enjoy film directing, they mean that small part, being on the set talking to actors. ... Full Review

Unfortunately, this one score isn't enough to outweigh the rest of the film's awkwardness.....while a good film can be both, this film is neither.....The bright red backdrops scream outrage and hellfire....The plot focuses on Adam, a struggling writer and hanger-on.....while familiar big band music obscures conversation and ensures discomfort..... ... Full Review

Mainstream critics are divided over the success of the film, but most praise Fry's effort. In the film (but not the book) suffering and deprivation appear as potentially redemptivewhile suicides and nervous breakdowns are depicted as genuinely tragic, not grimly amusing. ... Full Review

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Our young hero, Adam (Moore), needs to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina (Mortimer). His friends - eccentric, wild, louche and entirely shocking to the older generation, seem one by one to self-destruct, to crash and burn in... ... Full Article

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