MAN OF THE YEAR
This Man wins in a landslide !!
HOLLYWOOD - Just in time for the election season, Man of the Year is here to win your box office vote. It’s the sharpest political-comedy-thriller of the year, and probably will be until November!
Robin Williams is at his side-splitting best as ascorbic TV comedian Lou Dobbs, speaking his mind on every subject by doing funny bits and impersonations of gay people. On a lark, Dobbs runs for President, but here’s the movie’s brilliant twist - he wins! Williams is in top form here, clowning, ad-libbing, braying like a wounded goat one moment, then touchingly tender and Mork-ish in the next. You never know what the hell he’s up to or why, and that’s part of the Williams charm. Lewis Black is terrific as Dobbs’ speech writer, convulsing and spitting far less than usual. Christopher Walken proves once again that he’d be worth watching on the screen even if he was bound and gagged. Laura Linney plays the woman.
But behind this clowny mask of fun is a taut thriller! Certain powerful people (Jeff Goldblum) are sitting on the controversy of the century - the voting machines were incorrect and, just maybe, the wrong man is in the White House! And those powerful people will stop at nothing to make sure that he stays there. It seems a far - fetched premise for a political story, but Man gives the impression that it could happen right here, so watch out. It’s a brilliantly original concept, and it’ll put Man of the Year in the running for Movie of the Year at Oscar©®™ time.
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