Review Arthur (2011) | poetslandscape

MPAA (PG-13) CNS/USCCB (A-III) Roger Ebert (3 stars) Fr Dennis (1 half stars)

IMDb list -

http://www.Imdb.Com/identify/tt1334512/

CNS/USCCB compare -

http://www.Usccb.Org/movies/a/arthur2011.Shtml

Roger Ebert's evaluate -

http://rogerebert.Suntimes.Com/apps/p.C..Dll/article?AID=/20110406/REVIEWS/110409993

Arthur (starring Russell Brand, directed with the useful resource of Jason Winer, screenplay by Peter Baynham, story by way of the usage of Steve Gordon) is a remake of the 1981 original (starring Dudley Moore, written and directed by using Steve Gordon). Neither model is especially complete of edifying values. I assume I opt for the remake over the unique due to the fact I?Ve usually appreciated Russell Brand even as I?Ve by no means appreciated or understood Dudley Moore.

Dudley Moore?S profession end up at its peak when I became a teenager/younger man or woman and I clearly placed not anything of charge in his

Now about the characters and the plot: Arthur is about a "filthy rich 30-40 something boy-man" Arthur (played in the original by Dudley Moore and in the remake by Russell Brand) who insulated by his money has never grown up. In each case, he’s pressured by family to marry a woman of his social class who the parent/family believes would finally "make something of him." In the original, the parent doing the pressuring was Arthur’s father Stanford (played by Thomas Barbour); in the remake it was Arthur’s mother Vivienne (played by Geraldine James). In both cases, the woman that the pressuring parent wanted Arthur to marry was named Susan. In the original, Susan was played by Jill Eikenberry, in the remake by Jennifer Gardner. In both cases, Arthur simply does not love this woman. Instead, Arthur comes to prefer a different woman of a much different (lower/simpler) class. In the original, Arthur’s true love interest becomes Linda (played by Liza Minelli) in the remake she's named Naomi (played by Greta Garwig). In both cases, Arthur’s true parent or mentor figure was named Hobson. In the original, Hobson was Arthur’s butler (played by John Geilgud); in the remake, Hobson is Arthur’s nanny (played by Helen Mirren).

In both cases, despite having been pressured by family, Arthur finally makes his own way. The 2011 version probably has a _somewhat_ more edifying ending. In either case, it’s hard to find much of great moral value, except perhaps that everyone has a right (and a duty) to ultimately take responsibility for one’s own life.

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