Schizopolis

I've never seen anything like it.

Soderbergh’s Schizopolis is as coherent as a Mad Hatter’s riddle, but this surreal, elliptical oddity is an absolute delight, showing hilarious creativity in its manipulation of language and subversion of cinematic norms. It undoubtedly rewards subsequent viewings, and the acclaimed filmmaker proves himself to be an excellent comedy actor.

Soderbergh really lets loose here, and the result is a very fun experiment, even if it is plainly self-indulgent. Surrealism of the comic Bunuel variety.

[SODERBERGH CUT TBD] This film is bonkers, in a very slick and sincere way. It didn't need to stick its bonkers attitude out, it just had to bend its reality a little bit. This IS a DIY film, which doesn't feel like it's going too far with its turns. No bullshit. Just [generic] inserts that need no interpretation, and emulating a time capsule of the 90s if you accessed it by a Windows 95 computer. Soderbergh has got a lot of balls casting his ex-wife has the woman he has a multiple affairs with.

A film that dissects communication and the break down of it. It is highly original and adventerous, and it works as both an experiment and as a comedy.

This is what it's like when a director makes a movie that's whatever the fuck he wants it to be. Strange, off-putting, disorienting and, most important, extremely hilarious. A must see.

Soderbergh's ideas about how communication breaks down among people thrown onto film. It's interesting to see how he shows us his views and the movie is hilarious.

Original, unique, free of all conventions, these are all good descriptions but to use any of them still feels like I am doing the film a great injustice. Either way it is still a lot of fun.

Really, really weird but really, really funny in parts. It feels more like an experiment then an actual film. So many conventions are shattered in order to provide jokes that simply wouldn't work otherwise. I think if you've seen lots of movies and you want something that's completely different then this is worth seeing but the average movie goer simply would not get this at all.

This thing is all over the place and gets boring real quick.

Soderbergh is a damn excellent comedy actor actually! Is there anything this man can't do if he puts his mind to it? Schizopolis is a bit dated in places but for 1996 this is pretty on par with 90s comedy legends the likes of Chris Morris. There's some 250-iq monologues here and there but it's hard to discover the thought behind this (sometimes) funny mess, there might not be one. Some very good jokes and concepts in here though, worth seeking it out

Schizopolis estreava há 25 anos no Festival de Cannes. Acho que eu teria gostado mais se tivesse visto quando foi lançado, era o pico do cinema americano crítico entre meados dos 90 e 2000 e isso aqui se encaixa no status anti-status quo do período. WEBRip RARBG.

Brilliant grotesque comedy deconstructing social lifes.

It's basically one long shitpost. You simply have to respect getting a Criterion release of a shitpost though.

Interesting.

Made me laugh, a lot. The satire is a little obvious (it's, like, we're speaking different languages, think about it, maaaaaaan), but the jokes are first-rate, and Soderbergh the actor has great comic timing and delivery.

Like any genuine artist Soderbergh now and again has a meltdown.

A few moments were interesting or amusing but overall it didn't really work for this viewer. The "generic greeting" dialogue was pretty good.

Very loose, very experimental, and a good look at a feature by a director in total and complete creative control giving a fully self-indulgent project their all. Soderbergh isn't half bad at acting, and the common theme of communication and the destruction of communicative structure help keep the somewhat sketch-like structure of the film together. The pacing is a little off though, and it ends in a much less interesting (though still entertaining) manner than how it started.

One of the most unique comedies ever. Truly surprising and funny. Not for everyone, but worth taking a chance on.

Unique? Yes. Boring? YES!

It is almost as if it tried too hard to no try at all... if that makes any sense. Well, at any rate, this movie actually bored me and I didn't find it very entertaining or innovative.

It's original, alright. Too crazy for me.

Really wish I liked this more.

Steven Soderbergh's throwaway absurdist comedy may not have much meaning (in a prologue, he tells the audience that if they don't understand the film, it's their fault), but it's clearly a film that was fun to make, and the fun rubs off on the viewer. Soderbergh, proving to be a solid comic actor, plays an office drone and his double, a womanizing dentist. It's laden with gimmicks, my favorite being the exterminator who speaks, at first, in nonsensical strings of words. A highly quotable film.

There's some things to like here, but a lot more to hate. Some experiments are more interesting on paper, and this is one, because as interesting as some of it may sound it's borderline unwatchable. Score is not a grade.

Bizarre and unpredictable and self-indulgent and completely one-of-a-kind. Soderbergh's a fantastic leading man with exceptional comic timing and the film oozes with an irresistible freewheeling surrealism. Incredibly funny and impeccably put together.

whoa! what a rascally rascal Mr. Soderberg is!

The word unique gets bounced around a lot. But this movie actually is - unique. As a movie though, it's barely watchable.

Some parts work better than others, but overall it's really funny and surprisingly watchable.

Funny, smart, occasionally boring, self-indulgent, weird, clever, occasionally forced and unfunny, and overall a very worthwhile watch - if only to see a side of Soderbergh vastly different from his Hollywood films.

This exercise in absurdity is one of the funniest films of the 1990s, a strange essay on language and communication.

I see what Soderbergh wanted to do, but this is rather stupid.