Conceived as a silly comedy about a
shallow US celebrity talk show host and his producer conscripted to kill the leader of North Korea, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's second directorial effort (following last year's pleasant This is the
End) is
now always going to be about the absurdity that surrounded it in the weeks leading up to its release.
There quickly followed his indie adoption farce «Flirting with Disaster» (1996), and the more mainstream, but no less subversive, Gulf War adventure «Three Kings» (1999)-- and
now Russell has turned his mind to no lesser topic than the meaning of life itself, and the result is the relentlessly off - the - wall «I ♥ Huckabees», a deep plunge into the
shallow end of existence, and a film whose quirky intelligence establishes him, along with Charlie Kaufman and Paul Thomas Anderson, as one of the most inventive writers working in cinema today.