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Space Dandy (2014)
Visually appealing but immature and unsophisticated
I've scored Space Dandy 3/10. Those three points are for the artwork.
The dialogue in Space Dandy is trite and never rises above functional. The humor, such as it is, is immature and consists of mostly painfully obvious sight gags. Not visual humor, but sight gags. Sometimes, visually stunning scenarios are contrived and developed for nothing more than a single, lame sight gag.
The basic premise of Space Dandy is highly promising. I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it. When I read reviews of it, I thought the main character sounded something like Archer from the eponymous animated TV show, except located in the vast corpus of space teeming with alien life and highly imaginative characters and encounters. My bad.
Space Dandy is for children. Young children.
Les femmes du 6e étage (2010)
A light comedy replete with superficial charm - *spoilers*
A light comedy, good fun, but not for those seeking something intellectually compelling.
*Spoilers* Wealthy French professionals are serviced by maids living on the 6th floor of their building. Our main character, the owner of a stock broking firm, accepts an attractive Spaniard as his family's new maid. He finds himself emotionally inspired by the lively maids on the 6th floor and by Spanish culture, casting a disappointing shadow on his somewhat insipid lifestyle, which is dominated by routine. Experiencing something like a 'mid-life' crisis, he falls in love with the young maid.
As other reviewers say, this is a feel-good movie, because all our wishes regarding the two lovers come true. However, that also means that the characters do not have to deal with the consequences of their actions in any meaningful way, and this last point is the movie's chief weakness. Big decisions are made, but the main character is not accountable. After the main character makes his big decision, important minor characters are cast aside by the director, which is a shame, as it considerably narrows the scope of the film.