George Clooney Movie:

				Label: Buena Vista Pictures Salesrank: 166640
		Used Price: $24.94
		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Only Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plot line of Homer's Odyssey for a comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick-tongued wise guy with a thing about hair pomade (George Clooney, blithely sending up his own dapper image) who talks his chain-gang buddies (Coen-movie regular John Turturro and newcomer Tim Blake Nelson) into lighting out after some buried loot he claims to know of. En route they come up against a prophetic blind man on a railroad truck, a burly, one-eyed baddie (the ever-magnificent John Goodman), a trio of sexy singing ladies, a blues guitarist who's sold his soul to the devil, a brace of crooked politicos on the stump, a manic-depressive bank robber, and--well, you get the idea. Into this, their most relaxed film yet, the Coens have tossed a beguiling ragbag of inconsequential situations, a wealth of looping, left-field dialogue, and a whole stash of gags both verbal and visual. O Brother (the title's lifted from Preston Sturges's classic 1941 comedy Sullivan's Travels) is furthermore graced with glowing, burnished photography from Roger Deakins and a masterly soundtrack from T-Bone Burnett that pays loving homage to American '30s folk styles--blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, and more. And just to prove that the brothers haven't lost their knack for bad-taste humor, we get a Ku Klux Klan rally choreographed like a cross between a Nuremberg rally and a Busby Berkeley musical. --Philip Kemp

O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Region 2] Reviews:
Save a Sawbuck - Disregard this Film!!!!!!!
2009-12-24 - Oh, brother!!! The only reason I was interested in & purchased this film was because I understood it spurred a revival of interest in bluegrass music. How fully disappointed I am! This film is offensive and pointless from the get-go, with profanity and misuse of the Name throughout. The portrayal of the people of the Deep South during the Depression is of a vulgar, common folk who cannot think for themselves or formulate an idea of depth, full of hate and mistrust toward one another, with the protagonist being the lone thinker in the entire cast. What a useless waste of time! I fast-forwarded through much of it, seeking to at least find a song here or there to give the film credence. Even that was disappointing, as only during the credits at the end were there a couple of songs that weren't interrupted by absurdity. I feel terrible that I wasted ten dollars on it. I initially thought that I'd sell it or give it away once it was over, as I knew I had NO further use of it; however, it is now packed away neatly in its case at the bottom of my trash bin. Please invest your money and your time in something of value, not this garbage!

Amazing movie
2009-10-30 - Great story telling, imaginative, witty, clever, one of my favorite movies of all time. A steal for $9

Entertaining Caricatures of Jim Crow South
2009-10-26 - Three escaped convicts in circa 1940 Mississippi go through assorted adventures before finally gaining their freedom. Entertaining caricature of Jim Crow-era South, presenting some of the colorful (and sordid) characteristics of life at that time. Some of the characterizations are over the top, but overall an amusing portrayal--Clooney almost steals the show. Occasional profanity and violence.

My Favorite Movie of All Time
2009-10-20 - The first time I saw this movie, I actually thought it was quite ridiculous. I think it was because the humor was so dry.

I caught it on tv again one day which started my love affair with this film. I have probably seen it at least 100 times, if not more, and it gets funnier every time I see it.

My only problems with it are: 1.the Woolsworth scene is terribly edited and 2. the last scene has the McGill family missing a kid. If you count their daughters going over the train track- there's one missing?

My love for this film is that there is a quote for every issue in life:
When you wake up..."oh, my hair"; when you find yourself in trouble... "we're in a tight spot", having people problems..."only a fool seeks logic in the chambers of the human heart"; let someone down..."God forgive me"; how old you'll be in 50 years..."well, I'll only be 82"; come to spiritual knowledge..."come on in boys, the waters fine"; hostile towards cattle..."one thing I hate more than coppers is cows"; finished with an argument..."I've counted to three"; warn friends of impending danger..."do not seek the treasure"; and so on, and so on.

The majority of my every day language comes from the lines in this movie and I find that is all the language I need.


Boring, plotless, boringest!
2009-09-25 - "O Brother Where Art Thou or Adapted Classic Literature with Uninteresting Rednecks."

I gave it a shot for 45 minutes when it was on HBO. I got thoroughly bored and uninterested. Sorry, nothing more to say, as I remember nothing but the twiddling of my thumbs and looking at my watch.