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Barbarella (1968)
really funny sci-fi comedy
Barbarela a beautiful movie with a beautiful actress. The plot is extremely naive which makes the movie really funny. The set is extremely cute with it's Plexiglas chutes and ingenuous torturing machines such as a cage full of bloodthirsty budgerigars or organ of pleasure which pleases you to death. Another very charming thing about this movie is it's soundtrack full of very sweet and funny slightly psychedelic rock tunes. The funniest song is at the beginning of the movie where Barbarela undress her space suit until she is completely naked. Actually she is not completely naked because the credits cover her most vulnerable parts the whole time which makes it even better to watch . Barbarela is a comedy and a good one. If you accept it's apparent and complete silliness (in the best sense) you will love it. Just relax and laugh. Just to ensure you that this movie is really loved I want to point out a movie by Roman Coppola called CQ which pays tribute to Barbarela and if you like Barbarela and are at least a little bit romantic person you should see CQ as well.
Tian bian yi duo yun (2005)
Artistic at all cost
The movie is actually too slow. There are some nice images but it cannot outweigh the fact that the movie is in fact boring. You see a sexual intercourse a lot of watermelons and a sexual intercourse while eating a melon and maybe a little bit more. It may sound even interesting to someone but believe me to watch it for 2 hours isn't fun at all. Though you laugh several times but it's really not enough and it may be more out of despair and disbelieve than out of fun. To disturb the boredom director tries to put few movie video-clips into the movie. They are really colorful clips of absurd songs maybe from the 50's but it's hard to say exactly and they are trying to be funny so hard that it's really sad. Several times you have a feeling that the plot could evolve into something, that a powerful scene is being created but at the end it just somehow evaporates and that's it. Beside the clips there are hardly any dialogs let alone music. The director is trying to be original and artistic at all cost. Personally I cannot recommend the movie. I believe that art is something that shouldn't be boring. During the projection there was yawning all around the cinema which just corroborates my short review.