Dog-gone it, I wanted to like that film! It had all the ingredients that would normally make me salivate with anticipation:

Intelligent, imaginative director, with a track record.

Traditional music only marginally "commercialised" up.

Lotsa good "Odyssey" places to go, story-wise.

...But it just didn't come together for me in any meaningful way. Often it seemed like the good music was just "dropped" into a scene without reason. Clooney may very well be the "new Clark gable" and a major heart-throb, but I found him totally unconvincing with all that grinning, and those constant "double takes".

If you're going to mix slapstick, drama, Homeric allegory, satire and old time music together, then the "glue" better be good. For me it simply didn't hang together.

Guest Djh. Interesting theory....can you relate it to Preston Sturgess, and "Sullivan's Travels"?

Rick