The War of the Roses is a comedy film directed by Danny DeVito and starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
The War of the Roses is a film from the eighties… from the time when really good movies were still being made and when people were allowed to do more than just follow the silly dictates of the government of the day: It’s tremendously funny, quirky… a real comedy.
Storyline
The Roses are an ideal and wonderful couple: they have a great house, two great kids, until… everything stops being great and the divorce begins, a war that will take them beyond the conventional.
Movie Review: when it seemed that people have imagination.
Yes, it rained and I know the film has aged: but these films had blood in their veins and the characters seemed to be, yes, people and not idiots with legs created to please the marketing department. Here we have two flesh and blood characters acting like people, getting drunk, smoking and fighting because (surprise, surprise) that’s what usually happens when people get divorced: It’s not pretty.
Also, when we have a man who knows how to make movies and two actors who (wow) know how to act, we get a comedy that’s a comedy and laughs at things because (surprise number three) that’s what a comedy is for, not to prove something to Santa.
Those were different times when it seemed that you could offer a good parody or make a joke without offending some outraged minority or collective that we did not know existed until then: you laughed and that was it, and if you went to the movies to see a comedy, it was (what a day of surprises) to laugh at yourself and thus create what the Greeks called catharsis and come on… it does the body good and then come back happier to be on this planet (from m., now, before it was good).
I give this movie five stars because it shows us that we can laugh at adversity and that somehow that’s what we are here for and that the time spent worrying about a pandemic is wasted time and that all the time we spent worrying about idiocy is even more wasted time and that there was a time when only a little bit of time was wasted because time ended up being like the cigarette that the lawyer kept in the drawer waiting to be smoked.
Our opinion
Another of my favorite Hooligans and another that I give five stars because I feel like it, because I had a good time and because it shows us that there was a time when we could laugh at everything without being afraid of the laughter itself.
Trailer
The War of the Roses (1989)
Movie title: The War of the Roses
Movie description: The Roses were once a perfect couple, living in a beautiful house with their two lovely children. However, things took a drastic turn for the worse as they embarked on a bitter divorce battle that would push them to their limits.
Date published: November 3, 2020
Country: United States
Duration: 116
Director(s): Danny DeVito
Writer(s): Michael Leeson
Cinematography: Stephen H. Burum
Music: David Newman
Actor(s): Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, G.D. Spradlin, Sean Astin, Peter Donat
Genre: Comedy
Companies: Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises, 20th Century Fox
Our Opinion
Another of my favorite pranks, and another one to which I give five stars because I feel like it, because I had a great time, and because it shows us that there was a time when we could laugh at everything without fear of laughter.
