Digs enthusiastically into the rarely seriously discussed issue of the bond that can exist between man and machine.
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03/13/09
Love The Beast (2009)
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Reviews Counted:2
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Rotten:1
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Australian Rating: M [See Full Rating]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Australian Theatrical Release:
Mar 12, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $0
Reviews for Love The Beast
1 - 10 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticIt is diverting for a few minutes, but the enterprise really needs something more interesting than one man's relationship with his car.
03/13/09
Top CriticLove The Beast has the mellow glow of affectionate nostalgia for the kind of solid construction and steadfast mateship increasingly hard to come by in these prefab times.
03/13/09
Top CriticMore than anything, Love the Beast testifies to Bana's need to be liked. As an onscreen presence he exerts visible control over every scene, while as a director he largely avoids tackling painful material head on.
03/13/09
Top CriticA rev head's delight, Eric Bana's two year odyssey to document his 25 year relationship with a motor vehicle is a sometimes entertaining, sometimes (unavoidably) indulgent work that is good hearted, sincere and partially illuminating
03/05/09
Top CriticAn indulgent but moving account of a decades-long love affair with his first car.
11/13/09
Top CriticAn innocuous if not entirely successful attempt to convince “non-car people” about the joys of loving a 1974 Ford Falcon XB coupe.
11/13/09
Top CriticBana may not be a star exactly swaddled in charisma, but what mystique he did have is disassembled as comprehensively as that coupe's innards.
11/13/09
Top CriticBana packs plenty of visual grunt for revhead auds, but his misty-eyed narration and awkwardly staged probing of man-car love with an Oz TV psychologist veer close to vanity-project potholes.
03/19/09
Top CriticSlight but engaging.
03/13/09
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