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Nonureva Really Surprised!

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

colinjamesmcdermott There are good films, great films and then there are some films that are truly mindbogglingly good that they stand out among the crowd. Griff the invisible is one of those Mindbogglingly good... Oops lower your expectations for a second. I love superheroes, Iron man rocked. I loved what I have seen of the Avengers but hate and loathe what DC are doing to their icons. This movie does to marvel superhero movies what marvel did to the genre in the first place.... It made them real. What Griff has done is taken superheroes and tilted them 90 degrees again. We explore how we see the world differently and how these different people fit in or don't in this world... This movie makes you think differently at the end of it. BTW don't read anything about this movie. It's plot line in ingenious, and best unspoiled. It's not a drama, not a comedy, not an action movie. But a great, awesome story that once watched you will just love and quote for weeks.

Amy Adler Griff (Ryan Kwanten) is a doormat at his place of employment. One co-worker in particular bullies him and piles a great deal of his work onto Griff. But, at night, Griff gets some revenge. This affable but quiet young adult man dresses up in a homemade superhero costume and chases the bad guys away from his immediate neighborhood. Very clever, Griff has hooked up a viewing system to see crimes outside his building and, when needed, he swoops in. You'd have to think that the perps are surprised at his actions but they usually stop and run. Of course, this does not really sit well with the local police force. In fact, they hang posters up looking for the loner hero. Even Griff's handsome brother Tim comes to live in the same town, to keep an eye on his odd sibling. One day, Tim happens to meet a lovely lady, Melody (Maeve Dermody) and, after one date, he tells Griff that she is THE ONE. Yet, Maeve is not certain, being a bit unusual herself and still living at home. Lo and behold, when Tim brings Melody to Griff's apartment for a how-do-you-do, Melody almost instantly prefers Griff, making for big problems ahead. Never having head a real romance, will Griff respond to Melody's charms, and, hurt his own brother? Will G give up his superhero acts? This is quite an unusual film from Australia but rather enjoyable for those who like things a bit different. The viewer doesn't truly understand how, even with a costume, Griff stops crime or that when he claims to be invisible, he is still in plain sight. Yet, it doesn't matter. No one in the States will recognize the actors at this point but they are all fine. Sets, costumes, a winning script and an amusing direction make this a fun little indie. If you can see from this description that it might suit you, go get Griff.

getmeintodagroove My first ever Australian movie and I must say it was a good experience.The movie is about a Young man in his late 20s stuck in the world of dreams and reality. And a Big Brother who seems to be all his family. Funnily enough, His brother's Girlfriend who also happens to be a bit odd falls in love with him and the movie poses an interesting question about living in your dreams and in the real world. Where most of us would find our dreams and fantasy locked up within ourselves not to be let out to just look normal to the outside world.First half was more interesting than second though second half featured more of the romantic scenes. Acting, on a scale of 0-10 - I would give 7 and story, a 5.5 and the direction, a 6.5. What I really didn't like was that the movie was not sure how it wanted to go ahead with the story. Some parts of the movie were totally out of sync with the main story or was there a main story after all? Yet, in a way you still find it interesting because you are able to relate to the main character maybe not entirely but in bits and pieces and a beautiful love story to compliment. But still I find it difficult where to stand. Most people might find this movie to be completely incoherent and amateur. While a few might find it interesting. It depends on which side you are

Alex Di Sigh... Here we go again.I only recently reviewed "Super", exposing it for what it was: a cheap exploitation. "Griff the Invisible" is just as much so as "Super". Read my review on "Super", all the points I made against it are valid in this case as well. These movies do not have to be about "the darker side" of being a superhero. In case of Griff, he's not even a hero, he's an antihero in the correct sense of a word. Dictionary definition states the following: antihero is a central character of a work of fiction who lacks the traditional heroic virtues.All the usual shenanigans are there in the case of Griff: a very unsympathetic protagonist, a lack of motivation, a lack of a defined antagonist (bad for a superhero movie, "Super" had a good one though) and a very strong female lead.The movie is essentially about an adult that's unable to grow up, living in a fantasy world and a girl that comes to his aid. Very similar to "Defendor", except that particular movie wasn't bad at all (also the protagonist had a mental developmental disability).The movie is also full of pseudo-scientific nonsense to make it seem more intellectual, where's it comes out as silly to anyone with even an elementary knowledge of the discussed (pseudo-)scientific topics. I shall give one example of this. One of the main characters pounders a "theoretical" possibility of one physical object being able to move straight through another, due to the fact that most space between the molecules and atoms that an object is comprised of is empty. That fact is true: we are mostly empty space if we're talking about matter only. But those atoms and molecules also have bonds between them to form an object, unless it is a gas where those bonds are very weak. These bonds keep us together, were they to break we would fall apart. These bonds are energetic in nature, they would be disrupted if another bond were to be introduced in the same space. To penetrate solid matter an object has to reach a superfluid state, a highly homogeneous state of matter, but even then it is not really penetrating anything, but rather seeping through tiny empty cracks, benefiting from a complete lack of friction. It goes without saying that one would never survive such a transformation.Oh, yes, there's also a lot of metaphysical garbage as well and as some of us may know: metaphysics is useless because it can be used to explain everything, since it itself is built out of the unknowable.The only two good things I have to say about Griff are as follows. Maeve Dermody who plays Melody does so very neatly. She brings a lot of life into this barren wasteland of a film. She's also a great actress, I hope to see her in a movie that is actually good. Also the soundtrack is very nice indeed.The ending is interesting, but I had seen it done before, so nothing special there.Nothing else to say about it really. As a struggling superhero sub-genre goes this one is nothing to write home about. I suggest you skip it. Two points to Maeve and a half to the soundtrack, rounding it down, just because I feel like it.