For all its flaws and frustrations, it's this sense of cinematic anarchy that makes Colossal very welcome indeed.
Made on a budget that would just about cover Kong’s left bicep, Colossal is cool, smart filmmaking, with plot developments that will be talked about for a long time to come.
Colossal seems at times to be shaping up as a low-key, character-based comedy but then will suddenly head off in a far bleaker direction.
Hathaway and Sudeikis are both good enough to carry the film, with the former riffing on her excellent performance in Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married and the latter subverting his de facto nice guy appeal in ways that are surprisingly dark and disturbing.
Colossal feels like a quirky episode of The Twilight Zone and is quite engaging but the lurches in tone are unsettling and the film is neither as funny nor as edgy as you might have hoped.
Hathaway is great, but the film is a disaster.
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