{"id":2032619,"date":"2025-09-18T20:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2032619"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:34:03","slug":"colin-farrell-and-margot-robbie-star-in-big-bag-of-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colin-farrell-and-margot-robbie-star-in-big-bag-of-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie star in big bag of BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F09%2F111669886.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Let it be known: I recoiled more times during \u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey\u201d than at \u201cHouse of 1000 Corpses.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline-module--review__title subsection-heading-semi\">\n\t\t\tA BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY\t\t<\/h2>\n<p>Zero Stars. Running time: 108 minutes. Rated R (language). In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You\u2019d have to be a Roomba not to wince when Colin Farrell sings the title song of the Broadway musical \u201cHow to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, the words \u201cWithout Really Trying\u201d suit this moldy cupcake of a movie splendidly.<\/p>\n<p>Director Kogonada\u2019s adjective-challenged romantic blahmedy starring Farrell and Margot Robbie is a work of magical realism \u2014 though that\u2019s giving it too much credit \u2014 about two sexy singletons who meet at a rain-soaked wedding, and embark on a road trip through time to relive their quite unremarkable pasts.<\/p>\n<p>Their car\u2019s full-of-BS GPS, voiced by Jodie Turner-Smith, primly asks Farrell\u2019s David, \u201cWould you like to go on a big, bold, beautiful journey?\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Tell me that\u2019s not worse than a serial-killer clown?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d dull David says.<\/p>\n<p>So, off Sarah (Robbie) and David trek to a series of\u00a0forgettable forests and fields, in the middle of which stand out-of-place doorways. The vacuous vessels of boredom step through the frames and into their mushy memories.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie star in the odd love story \u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Columbia Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Farrell croons the Frank Loesser tune because he\u2019s whisked back to his high-school musical and a girl he fell in love with there. Speaking from experience, there are few things more mind-numbing than when grown adults wax nostalgic about their high-school musical.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mystery how Farrell wound up in the driver\u2019s seat here. The Irish actor is at his finest in the dark films of directors <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/13\/banshees-of-inisherin-review-nuts-and-hysterical\/\">such as Martin McDonagh<\/a> and Yorgos Lanthimos. And sometimes he injects danger into unexpected places. For instance, Farrell managed to be brooding in \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/12\/10\/saving-mr-banks-more-like-selling-mary-poppins\/\">Saving Mr. Banks<\/a>,\u201d a Disney film about the creation of \u201cMary Poppins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cJourney,\u201d however, Farrell does not fare well. The annoying movie sands away his edges and thus his magnetism. He fades away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The pair visits\u2019 each others\u2019 memories. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Columbia Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>David and Sarah step through doors that lead into the past. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Columbia Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sarah plain and tall visits a modern art museum that she cherished but is bittersweet because her mom, whose death Sarah was absent for, also loved it.\u00a0Her story is more one-note than David\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Robbie, who plays a sort of manic pixie dream girl on beta blockers, suffers from the same unmoving, automaton quality as her costar. Though with the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/18\/barbie-review-margot-robbies-mattel-movie-is-lousy\/\">Barbie<\/a>\u201d actress the poor showing is less of a letdown. She hasn\u2019t been truly great in a role since \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/12\/06\/i-tonya-is-the-biopic-we-kneed-right-now\/\">I, Tonya<\/a>\u201d eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Both manilla lovebirds head to hospitals and speak to younger iterations of their parents. David wanders into his childhood bedroom \u2014 tantalizing the audience with thoughts of naps.<\/p>\n<p>More actors are embarrassed along the way. Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Kevin Kline play the car rental employees who give David his vehicle. Waller-Bridge, one of the world\u2019s funniest women and best writers, makes a fool of herself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Robbie hasn\u2019t been truly great in a role since \u201cI, Tonya.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Columbia Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Only a dummy would call \u201cJourney\u201d wise. People have regrets \u2014 who knew?! However, it\u2019s also absent a warm-and-fuzzy feeling, an evolving story to hold our interest or, really, surprises of any kind.<\/p>\n<p>The sole shock is that the screenwriter, David Reiss, also penned \u201cThe Menu,\u201d which was a clever movie and tasty puzzle. This roadside wreck \u2014 which he should pay someone to scrub from IMDB \u2014 is merely puzzling.<\/p>\n<p>In the pantheon of films about magical cars, this one is not big, bold or beautiful. Actually, I can think of a much better word to describe \u201cJourney.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It rhymes with \u201cChitty Chitty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it be known: I recoiled more times during \u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey\u201d than at \u201cHouse of 1000 Corpses.\u201d movie review A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY Zero Stars. Running time: 108 minutes. Rated R (language). In theaters. 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