Arthur

Ratings: 5.5/10
Film Class: B
Genre: Comedy

Heard from a couple of friends that this movie was real funny. I was never a fan of the main lead, Katy Perry's husband, Russell Brand. Thought he was too over the top with his accent, acting and his "style". Never thought he would be landed a leading role... but he did.

A free-spirited billionaire who's addicted to alcohol and always getting into trouble lands himself into the biggest trouble he could ever imagine - marry a woman whom he doesn't love or lose his inheritance completely (actually if you ask me, it's not that big a problem ;p). Well, if that's not bad enough, that's when he finally falls in love with a random, "ordinary" girl...

The movie started with strong cheesy British accent, which was kinda of a turn off for me. Don't get me wrong, I looovvve the British accent, but someone when Russell Brand speaks, everything, the whole package just sounded so low class. No offence to him as well, he's a decent actor, with an exceptionally irritating vibe about him.

Story was weak, typical, and lines were too cheesy, most of the time. However, because of the enormous loads of lame lines, it makes the good ones really good, think they call it relativity. Gotten a couple of good laughs but other than that, for most parts of the movie, I was just forcibly making laughing sounds.

The saving grace of the movie was the Russell's love interest, Greta Gerwig, the only "natural" and "normal" character. Actually there was a touching sequence between Russell and his nanny, Helen Mirren which I thought was pretty good as well.

Quite the no-brainer, feather-lighted movie which no one would really remember in years to come. Honest opinion, time-waster.