Films that get panned by critics at the box office, don't necessarily get the same treatment on DVD. You just have to open your mind a bit more.
For the last year as Suite101's Feature DVD reviewer, I've since cut my theatre-going habit by half ... and for all I know, it could be more. This also means, that aside from the movie posters I see on my way to work, I don't know about or have any pre-existing biases towards any film that lands on my front doorstep waiting to be screened.
So when the UPS delivery man brought a screener for a film called, "I Think I Love My Wife" for me, I looked at it and went, "Huh?" He replied that it was a Chris Rock film. You can read my review of it here.
Later, I spoke to a friend of mine about what I thought of the movie, and how I was pleasantly surprised by its maturity given that it's a Chris Rock film. She looked at me perplexed (as she's a film critic herself) and remarked that the film was panned by the critics because "It was not funny."
I remarked, "I don't think it was meant to be funny at all. There were humourous moments, but overall, the humour was meant to be light and certainly not the driving purpose of the film. It was really Chris Rock self-reflecting on the boredom of marriage."
Certainly a film that attracted the acting talents of Steve Buscemi, Gina Torres and Kerry Washington had to have something.
