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The Menu (2022) by Mark Mylod - cranefly - 01-09-2023

For a time last year, I thought The Menu and Triangle of Sadness were the same movie.  It puzzled me that there were trailers for the same movie under two diifferent titles.  I figured they were just shopping for the better title, and letting viewers decide.

As so often happens, I was mistaken.  They are very different movies, and The Menu is a hard pass.  It doesn't contain characters so much as caricatures of characters.  And they're heavily manipulated by the director to get the desired result.  I was jarred out of the movie so many times by characters behaving out of character.  Anya Taylor-Joy might be the only possible exception.  But even she and her eyes have a hard time rising above this muddled mess.

It's like watching a magician's act where the entire audience is shills.  And it's a bad act to boot.

My stamp of disapproval.


RE: The Menu (2022) by Mark Mylod - Greg - 01-09-2023

This was slightly on the list of movies to watch. Now it is not. Thanks, CF.