"Well he had a point. Of course, he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be...well...all the best minds used to think the world was flat. But, what if it isn't? It might be round and bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what they might be, why, we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes."
A truly delightful film that kind of falls apart completely by the end. It's not a horrible ending by any means but it feels so disconnected from everything that came before that it seems like they didn't know how they should wrap it up. Regardless, the main charm of the film is in the pairing of George C. Scott as a man convinced he is Sherlock Holmes and Joanne Woodward as his reluctant Watson and their chemistry carries the film past its flaws. They Might Be Giants falls under a special subgenre of films about learning to embrace eccentrics and their fantasies (Harvey, The Fisher King) which I would love to see more of. A great ensemble including surprise appearances from Rue McClanahan, Kitty Winn AND F. Murray Abraham! Again, not really a film that rises too far above its shortcomings but I had a big smile on my face for much of the runtime.
"Well he had a point. Of course, he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be...well...all the best minds used to think the world was flat. But, what if it isn't? It might be round and bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what they might be, why, we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes."
A truly delightful film that kind of falls apart completely by the end. It's not a horrible ending by any means but it feels so disconnected from everything that came before that it seems like they didn't know how they should wrap it up. Regardless, the main charm of the film is in the pairing of George C. Scott as a man convinced he is Sherlock Holmes and Joanne Woodward as his reluctant Watson and their chemistry carries the film past its flaws. They Might Be Giants falls under a special subgenre of films about learning to embrace eccentrics and their fantasies (Harvey, The Fisher King) which I would love to see more of. A great ensemble including surprise appearances from Rue McClanahan, Kitty Winn AND F. Murray Abraham! Again, not really a film that rises too far above its shortcomings but I had a big smile on my face for much of the runtime.
