I Heart Huckabees

It's like a '30s screwball comedy that's gone to grad school...hits the ground running, flinging verbal and visual information at you with machine-gun velocity. Your mind is engaged and delighted.

While superficially I Heart Huckabees is a deranging experience, it ends up being deeply reassuring.

I ♥ Huckabees is a rarity-a tremendously optimistic film for a truly dark time.

Brilliant existential comedy for adults only.

This feverish state-of-the-split-nation address finds Russell tossing everything that matters -- and more -- into the pot, and producing a pretty indigestible and very messy stew.

If you're up for it, you'll discover a fresh, funny little romp unafraid to tackle the biggest issues of all.

Here’s a film that, both in story and execution, is centered on the idea of finding order among chaos, and for viewers more accustomed to a tidy, straightforward narrative, the results can understandably seem like a helter-skelter experience.

The strength of I Heart Huckabees lies almost entirely in its vivacious, critical, slightly manic-and not unsympathetic-pictures of confused and struggling Americans.

Russell directs with the ambition of Altman and the nervous energy of Paul Thomas Anderson, and his script sounds like it was co-written by Howard Hawks and Charlie Kaufman.

You don't get many clear answers from this film and maybe that's for the better.