Some people just don't get the show. Including so-called film critics. The local paper's film correspondent gave Colossal two out of five stars. He said the idea of the film was "buried under distracting junk", and that it was "An American woman's petty personal issues being manifested as a 100m-tall monster in Asia".
That is the worst review I have ever read. Coming from a Film journalist some more. I am so gonna email him. If he had made some research, he would have noted that the film has an average 79% positive review & 4 out of 5 stars. But if he chose to give his personal opinion in print, then I could only ask myself to chill.
Okay, let's forget about that fella. (let it go, let it go, don't hold it back anymore).
In this movie, Gloria (Anne Hathaway) has a drinking problem, she drinks from dusk till dawn and she forgets to go home. She is a writer in New York but she struggles with her work. Her boyfriend has had enough of her alcoholism & lack of life-directions, he packs her belongings and asks her to leave his apartment before he comes back from work.
Gloria has nowhere to go, no job in sight. She left NY for her old small & laid-back hometown.
Her parents had passed, hence the old house is entirely hers but it is barren. Gloria settles back in but there is nothing much happening in that small town, there's a school and a pub, and that's about it. She joins her old classmate - Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) who inherits the pub from his late father. They hangout with Oscar's two other friends, Gloria begins to work at the pub, which is not a good idea for a self-retraining alcoholic.
Anyway, as the days go by, she discovers to her astonishment, her link to the gigantic reptile-looking monster that shows up in South Korea, terrorizing the city and its people. She discovers the monster is her proxy that transposes through time and space (that is, while she enters the playground pit at 8.05am, the monster appears at night in the city of Seoul). Anyway, Gloria is just shocked and in awe with this discovery, she shares the information with Oscar and his two buddies.
Somewhere down the line, Oscar by accident (chance) discovers he could also transpose himself into a giant robot, the same way Gloria does. Over time, Oscar's true colours surface. He is a bitter person who has not moved on with his self-absorbed, warped thinking, inferior complexities; he plays his ugly nature out by bullying his friends, hitting his friends verbally at their lowest points. He tries to control Gloria by threatening to cause mayhem and destruction in Seoul should Gloria ever try to leave him. He imprisons her with his power to transmute into the robot.
It was all doom and depressing for Gloria. From one shit to another bigger shit, living in fear as she knows Oscar is capable of carrying out his threats.
Until one day, she has had enough. An idea came to her.
I will leave the climax of the show unspoken here. You go watch it.
This movie is slow to watch in the beginning as it took time to convey the slowness of Gloria's troubling indulgence and her trouble with trying to remember her childhood period when she was classmates with Oscar. But it's a good movie. Perhaps women will enjoy it more than men. Maybe that is why the film correspondent didn't quite get this.
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