Wednesday, November 30, 2011

MEET MONICA VELOUR: SATC, MEET NAPOLEON
Local boy makes it big! Tobe (Dustin Ingram) is a young man from Auburn, whose passion in life is porn; well, more specifically, a once popular porn star, Monica Velour. He is an avid fan, collecting bits and pieces from her life that no one else would know even existed. With star shaped pasties in his big naive eyes, he sets off to meet her once he hears she is making a public appearance. Yes, another coming of age film for a character that reminded me too much like Napoleon Dynamite. Of course, being a sophisticated screen audience, we can guess that he finds her hard worn by life. Kim Cattrall does her best poor version of Samantha with a drinking problem to portray a woman who has seen it all and lost hope somewhere between the first and last truck stop. The two of them make for an odd couple indeed. He wants to save her and she doesn't want to be saved. I wasn't crazy about this film, but it was certainly entertaining and there were a few laughs. There were several problems I had with some of the situations they found themselves in and the moral ambiguities, which normally doesn't effect me at all, but it was watchable.