Pleasantville

Pros: Brilliant comedy and social commentary, framed by brilliant direction and good acting
Cons: Is it amoral or moralistic? The question will be too much for some.

It's something I've noticed from a couple of years of reading movie reviews, and particularly year-end ten-best lists, that many times the top ten list of a particular critic will have little to do with technical craft or any objective standard, and much...

Pros: Evokes emotion, good use of literary devices
Cons: Over the top at Times

It's not just the sex that's bringing color to Pleasantville.

To me Pleasantville was a huge surprise. Like it is listed on Epinions, I had thought it was a comedy. It should be classified as a drama in my Epinion. I found it one of the...

Pros: Engrossing, thought provoking, and in the end, Pleasant!
Cons: If you want a simple 'no-brains required' comedy, get a Jim Carrey movie.

I thought I'd like this light comedy. Instead I loved this multi-layered commentary on television, society, bigotry, segregation, the American way of life and the prices we pay to preserve it. I was 'pleasantly' surprised!

Teenager David...

Pros: Gives a good look at human nature.
Cons: Gives a good look at human nature!

This movie gives the viewer in only 2 hours a good
look at human nature and the effect of emotions on
actions and thinking. Especially the psychological
effect that seeing someone else as being different
has on people and their...

Pros: Amazing use of color and black and white.
Cons: Lots of themes in this movie are glossed over.

What if television sitcom characters were aware of their existence? This playful, yet clever, premise is the driving force behind one of this year's best films -- Pleasantville.

Written and directed by Gary Ross, the movie pans into the lives...

Pros: the kind of film that makes you glad to be alive
Cons: Nowt!

It should have been a gimmick movie, one where everyone walked out of the theatre oohing and aahing about the special effects. It should have been the kind of movie that made kids wonder what it would really be like to get sucked into their favourite TV...

Pros: strong performances, moral messages, interesting visual technique
Cons: a bit too overemotional, some unresolved storylines

I was inspired to repost this review after seeing it again on cable and realizing that I had not post any comments on it. When it came out, the comparisons to The Truman Show ran rampant. Let me end any of those lingering debate or comparisons. I had...

Pros: Amazing symbolism and social commentary, acting, mood.
Cons: Light-hearted comedy is merely adequate, wished to see some of the more dramatic sequences.

"Pleasantville" was not a movie that I really wanted to see. From the previews, it seemed like a basic fish-out-of-water situation with a guy and a girl creating havoc in a seemingly perfect town, and up to the halfway point, I was right. Oh...

Pros: interesting cinematography and style
Cons: easy cheap shots at '50s culture

Pleasantville is for all those couch potatoes who think they're clever when they watch Nick at Nite reruns and make lewd comments about the characters. Like Jim Carrey's vehicle The Truman Show, this movie takes on the most puny of subjects--1950's...

Pros: good effects, strong performances, unique
Cons: a little slow sometimes, too much sexual message

My wife and I caught this on cable last night. We had heard of the movie, and what it was about, but did not have any real interest in paying good coin to see it. But, hey, this way it’s free. Since we both watched it, and it did generate some...

Pros: Provocative, with solid performances.
Cons: none

All too often, we look at our world and wonder "What went wrong?" We see images of a black and white utopia from our past on TV shows like "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best." Sure, they had their problems, but...

Pros: Makes you think
Cons: Not a good movie for young kids due to some of the content

Pleasantville is one of those movies that may make you think. Do we have it better now, or did they have it better back in the 1950s? This question will not answer the question for you, but it will spark some thought.

Although we see very...

Pros: Will make you take a second look at your own life
Cons: Allusions to other movies are evident

In a fast-moving, futuristic world, there is one boy whose passion lies not in a typical teen’s hobbies, but in a 50’s television sitcom called Pleasantville. David Wagner, played by Tobey Maguire, is a teenage boy with a passion for sitcom trivia....

Pros: A visually stunning, well made, well acted film!
Cons: None that I can think of...

"Pleasantville" is one of the best movies of 1998. It presents us with an original idea for a film, and takes that idea to new levels -- making it whole, complex and stunning all on it's own. It's a film about ideas, about changing the world by changing...

Pros: artistically well done, a pleasant movie.
Cons: some parts seemed a little slow

This was a pleasant little movie, I enjoyed watching it and it makes for a good video pick. This was basically a feel good movie, the messages were enjoy life, enjoy the simple things, laugh cry and do it all.

I felt that the plot was very...