The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish (1991)
Bekkah:
I think this is the most amount of time I have spent watching a Jeff movie with a furrowed brow. Look, I am VERY into the long hair and bearded version of Jeff/Jesus (even if the hair is clearly fake), but Jeff has a creepy temper and a seriously gross messiah complex. I did like his confidence and will try to channel his salary negotiation skills (please wish me luck), but this movie was weird vignette (a lady who grinds food into mush) after weird vignette (two strangers recording orgasmic sounds in a soundbooth) after weird vignette (Jeff trying to murder someone by shoving a lobster down his throat). In the final moments, a weird leprechaun/mime showed up to give the main character (not Jeff) a free ticket to a porno in a theater and that was a scene that made about as much sense as anything else in this movie.
Danya:
At the center of this movie is a weird rapey thing, where Jeff Goldblum goes ballistic when the woman who promised to have sex with him has ear-sex with a violinist RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. Instead of continuing to play his piano like an adult, he goes ballistic and SEVERELY INJURES someone and goes to jail for years. Charming? CHARMING. In the end, the short, uninteresting, balding guy gets the girl and the whole things feels like teenage boy’s sad dream. There is a farce and a lot of sex stuff, and also a really big fish goes into a weird old timey human sized sausage grinder and then doesn’t get mentioned again. Bekkah and I had to keep asking each other, “is this supposed to be funny?” and that should tell you what you need to know. Paris is lovely, though!
3/10 Godblums
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Director: Ben Lewin
Writers: Marcel Aymé (novel), Ben Lewin
Stars: Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson
