Anne Hathaway And Jason Sudeikis Made A Monster Movie, And It's Bonkers — cinemablend.com

The only real issue with Colossal, which played at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, is that it squanders its potential by trying to toe the line of a mainstream film, perhaps because Nacho Vigalondo looked up and realized that he had two legitimate movie stars at his disposal -- no offense to Open Windows star Elijah Wood -- so he broke from character and tried to do what a mainstream director would do. And make no mistake, Nacho Vigalondo is not a mainstream director. He could have gotten very weird with Colossal, exploring the sci-fi conundrum introduced by the central premise of the movie. Instead, he sidetracks into melodrama as Gloria analyzes her relationships and Sudeikis' character starts to disrupt his own peaceful and semi-normal life.

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