(From 2015) I’ve never seen Honest Trailers more or less give up like this. Jupiter Ascending was simply too absurd to mock. They felt compelled in the end to just recount the plot.
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I’m kind of feeling pushed to go see ‘Jupiter Ascending,’ now.
I mean, when I saw the first trailers and the upcoming features I looked at it and I said Stupid. Then I saw some more and I said Crazy. But now I’m reading these two reviews and I’m thinking Crazy-Stupid:
- Washington Free Beacon: “Jupiter Ascending is a totally nuts, lavishly costumed, deeply funny, completely campy, ridiculously dense space opera that is, more or less, about evil businessmen trying to destroy the Earth and about love saving it. It is so nuts and lush and weird that there is almost no chance it will find an audience in theaters. It demands repeat viewings. It practically screams Basic Cable Classic.”
- Filmdrunk: “The movie isn’t really about anything, it’s just this massive ball of baubles and frosting. Which makes it not a very good story, but… not entirely uncompelling either. As bad a movie as it is, it’s also a singular event, a monument to strange and bizarre decisions stacked one on top of another. Jupiter Ascending is the Winchester Mystery House of movies, why shouldn’t they charge admission? Take a friend, point at the stairways to nowhere, gawp at the toilets built upside down.” (H/T: @drgonzo123… well, actually, Dennis Detwiller*)
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