Preview: Sixty Six (2008)

• Poster: C+

Review:

Hoping to sell itself on the 70s-kitsch of recent years, the poster epitomizes the style, but hardly provides any new visual commentary. It's rather plain and not as colorfully vivid as it could have been.

• Trailer: D+

Review:

When citing Oscar-friendly comedies of the last decade, it's best if the preview doesn't look like a bargain-basement version of them. There is nothing very funny in this trailer and I can't say that it looks terribly amusing. Since it's directed by the same guy who did Leonard Part 6, City Slickers II and Made of Honor, I think it's safe to assume that even a literate script wouldn't make it out alive.

Oscar Prospects:

About a Boy earned an Oscar nomination for Original Screenplay. That film's mention in the trailer is about as close as this film is getting to the Oscars.

Release Date:

• August 1, 2008

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (June 29, 2008) Original