Colossal Movie Review: For Film Geeks, Anne Hathaway offers Monster Nirvana
Born out of the imagination of Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo, Colossal is a weird genre hybrid. It’s a creature feature unfolding in Seoul, South Korea and a rom-com/love triangle/drama which takes place in a small town in middle America. Anne Hathaway plays Gloria, an out-of-work writer partial to the bottle. Thrown out of their New York apartment by her boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens), Gloria goes back to her empty (unfurnished and unoccupied) childhood home where she reconnects with old school friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis). Oscar offers Gloria a job as a waitress in his bar and becomes her drinking partner, boss and confidante. Over time, Oscar goes from friendly, to flirty to unhinged as the two find themselves connected by bizarre events revolving around a park and a gigantic, scaly ‘kaiju’ (imagine Godzilla mixed with a White Walker) wreaking havoc. The monster has been seen before, 25 years prior, as we see at the start of the film. As Gloria manages to figure out...