Its not quite an awful film, it has potential but it just doesn't quite.work for me and usually I like character dramas and I like quite a lot of Robin Williams' films, so it was a little bit of a disappointment. Its a quirky and a fairly watchable film, with the titular characters conception being explained in a slightly disturbing way at the start of the film. I felt that Garps mother - her feminist manifesto aspect, I didn't feel it really fit into the film somehow. It felt a bit too long drawn out, although, to be fair, I thought Roberta Muldoon, played by John Lithgow, was another interesting character - I enjoyed the scenes featuring 'her' (a transsexual) and him.
The main character is certainly quirky and somewhat interesting but the plot narrative didn't really work for me, as I felt that not much in the way of context was given to things. The main character is certainly quirky and somewhat interesting but the plot narrative didn't really work for me, as I felt that not much in the way of context was given to This is a strange film, I think its fair to say - sort of madcap but not in the usual way for Robin William films.
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The World According to Garp is a huge narrative full of complex emotional rollercoasters typical of a writer's life. It is also terrific * WASHINGTON POST * Iconic. a marvellous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers * CHICAGO TIMES * A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking. Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies synopsis. Absolutely extraordinary.a roller-coaster ride that leaves one breathless, exhausted, elated and tearful * LA TIMES * Like all great works of art, Irving's novel seems always to have been there, a diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delight.As approachable as it is brilliant, Garp pulses with vital energy * COSMOPOLITAN * The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation.
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