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By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
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Terrible, unfunny comedy has language, drinking, smoking.
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Too Much Love
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What's the Story?
In TOO MUCH LOVE, Coskun (Hasan Can Kaya) calls himself a "comic actor/writer." He seems to be around 40, living with his older brother and their parents, all unhappily squeezed together and all of them at odds with each other. They sell pirated movies on the street, and the police occasionally chase them away. One day, Coskun spies Ayla (Busra Pekin), an attractive woman, and declares he will marry her. She works for an agency that represents movie stuntmen. Coskun barges into her office and interrupts a meeting, and that clueless rudeness immediately gets him representation and a job on a film. He tries to get a story idea turned into a film but is repeatedly thwarted. Will he get his happy ending?
Is It Any Good?
Too Much Love is nearly unwatchable. This is a movie about an immature man who doesn't seem to know he is immature. Coskun is an insufferable, naive smart aleck whose solution to one of his many problems is to steal money from the woman he loves and use it to bribe someone he's never met because that will supposedly result in a "sure thing" return on his investment. That is the most coherent part of the plot, and it takes an hour to set it up. Many lines of dialogue make so little sense that one is tempted to wonder if the subtitle writers who translated the Turkish into English are unusually bad at their job. Or, is the translation accurate and the movie is just as terrible as it seems? "Watch up for the wind" is one of many lines that leaves a viewer mystified.
Coskun asks his mom why she is smoking and, in answer, she launches into a non-sequitur series of quotes from the movie Fight Club. Coskun's family visits Ayla and her dad, as if to announce impending marriage, yet we see nothing of the progressing relationship between Ayla and Coskun that would suggest they are committed to each other and ready to tie the knot. Coskun makes fun of a pretentious musician named Infinity, and soon they are running through streets and into a gay pride parade. Why are they mad at each other? Why is one chasing the other? No clue. Is this funny? No. Overall, this feels like the fantasy of a wannabe comic actor/writer who could only get himself a lead role in a movie by writing a role for himself, and unfortunately it turns out that, in fact, the lead actor wrote this dreadfully inept and unoriginal script.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about whether there are cultural differences in humor. Do you think that what may be funny in one country may not seem funny in another?
Coskun declares he's a comic actor/writer but there's no evidence that he's any of those things. How do we feel about someone who makes such claims? Does he seem like a fool, or is he a figure of sympathy? Why?
Why do you think Ayla likes Coskun? Does the movie give us any indication that there's a reason they would make a good couple?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming : March 29, 2024
- Cast : Hasan can Kaya , Busra Pekin , Baris Yildiz
- Director : Kivanç Baruönü
- Inclusion Information : Female Movie Actor(s)
- Studio : Netflix
- Genre : Comedy
- Run time : 100 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- Last updated : May 19, 2024
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