What's good in 'Colossal' isn't very original
If Anne Hathaway was looking for a role to stretch herself, she certainly got it in 鈥淐olossal,鈥� although the stretch exercise ultimately comes to naught. She plays Gloria, an alcoholic New Yorker who decamps to her family鈥檚 abandoned house in the boonies after her fed-up boyfriend (Dan Stevens) throws her out.
There she meets up with Oscar (Jason Sudeikis), a childhood friend now running a bar, where, of course, she becomes a regular. Just when you think the film, written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, is going to devolve into yet another so-so bittersweet romantic comedy, it shifts into sci-fi mode, as live TV telecasts a giant Godzilla-style monster rampaging in the streets of Seoul, South Korea.
Let鈥檚 just say that there is a connection between the monster; a subsequent giant robot; and Gloria, Oscar, and a local sandbox. That may enough to pique your curiosity. It did mine, for a while, until it didn鈥檛. To paraphrase what Brahms once told a young composer, what鈥檚 original in the film isn鈥檛 very good, and what鈥檚 good in it isn鈥檛 very original. Grade: C (Rated聽R for language.)
