Georgia Rule (DVD-Video)
Picture: C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: D
To put it
point blank, Gary Marshall’s Georgia
Rule (2007) is the disaster you have heard it was. If fallen starlet Lindsay Lohan was not
disaster enough, the screenplay by Mark Andrus is enough to send us all into
rehab!
The film
attempts to be a women’s comedy about three generations not connecting, as
played by Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and Lohan, trying to get away from each
other, though Georgia (Fonda) thinks she can fix things with doing things her
way. She too obviously did not read the
script.
All in
all, Marshall seems bored, everyone seems tired and nothing is ever real,
palpable, convincing or believable in the very, very long 113 minutes that
never seem to end. Lohan’s character
likes to sleep around (no comment) and that includes taking on two of the males
(Dermot Mulroney, Garrett Hedlund) with Cary Elwes as the bad father.
As for
Lohan, even if she was clean and sober, this is still; a total wreck. Producer/Morgan Creek Productions owner sent
her a memo about not showing up for work.
She was wrong to not show up. She
was wrong to sign in the first place.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image is detail challenged throughout, with
the usually savvy Karl Walter Lindenlaub, A.S.C., b.v.k., not able to deliver
any memorable images as there is nothing much memorable to shoot. At least locations look nice, but he is above
material like this mess. The Dolby
Digital 5.1 mix is weak in surrounds, with dialogue recorded professionally,
but somewhat flat throughout. Extras
include deleted scenes, gag reel with no laughs and two long featurettes.
- Nicholas Sheffo
