Wow, I never thought I’d be writing about the Feel-Good Nazi-Twins-Experiments Jewish Exorcism Movie of the Year. But that’s the basics on the absurd movie, “The Unborn,” out today. It’s possibly the most absurd and laughable horror movie of the decade. Not sure what’s up with Hollywood, but this must be the Demented Take on the Holocaust year for movies. It’s not just “The Reader,” in which we’re supposed to be sympathetic to a Nazi SS Guard because she had hot sex scenes with a 15-year-old and liked to be read high-brow books. It’s this one.
Oh, and then, there’s “Rabbi” Gary Oldman (dude! nice knitted yarmulke)–hilariously reading transliterated Hebrew–in this one. (And, of course, for the Jewish exorcism, you need an Episcopal Priest in tow.) As my friend, reasonable liberal movie critic Corey Hall of Detroit’s “Metro Times” joked, “With all the Jews in Hollywood, they need to cast Gary Oldman as the rabbi?” More like, with all the good scripts in Hollywood, they need to make this exercise in laughing gas?
Example of a great thriller invoking the image and deeds of Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele: “The Boys From Brazil.” Example of a bad one: This movie. Gives new meaning to the phrase, “Never Again.”
Read my full review of this and the other new releases at the box office this weekend, and guys, make sure to skip “Bride Wars” at all cost. You’ll thank me. . . or dread that you didn’t listen. Makes “Sex and the City” and “Mamma Mia” look like exciting male action hero films.