The Stop Button
blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: Directed by Mel Smith
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Affably performed but charmless ninety draggy minutes of Jeff Goldblum as an American actor in London who can’t catch a break because he’s a… tall American. When the movie’s about Goldblum wooing seemingly proper British nurse Emma Thompson, it’s all right. When it’s about Goldblum trying to manage absurd stardom–or at least steady work–and his…
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I’m trying to imagine how Bean would play to someone unfamiliar with the television show. Depending on one’s tolerance for bland family comedy-dramas, it might actually play better. Because Bean, the movie, removes a lot of Bean, Rowan Atkinson’s character, and instead fills the time with Peter MacNicol and his problems. His job is on…
The Stop Button 