Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

markmarks I got such great recommendations for this movie, I thought it must be great. What I got... was a disappointment. Half an hour of it was just getting ready to do a radio drama. Another half an hour and the movie sorta, kinda, dragged its feet into a patchy, commercial-filled start. I was feeling the slowness from all the way over here. I sped it up to 2x, scanning the subtitles. Maybe the last 1/3 or 1/4 picked up the pace and added humor, but at this point an hour of my life was blown and no amount of dry humor could bring it back.It had the long, drawn out scenes that reminded me of Gravity... except the acting was mediocre and uninspired, with no interesting developments in it. Was there humor? Oh, maybe. If Dana Carvey's Master of Disguise was funny, so was this.Was there excitement? Just imagine the slow moments from 2001 a Space Odyssey, and remove the sci-fi elements (or ANYTHING with a budget).This movie was boring, dull, and over-dramatized with the weak point it was trying to drive home. It feels like a play, probably because it was adapted from one. A weak 1990s movie in a 1980s setting hearkening back to the 1930s, with all the appeal of the dud it portrays.Do not watch.

ronsayles This is the greatest movie about radio that I have ever had the pleasure of watching. It is the story of what can and does happen when changes are made to the script just before air time and while on the air. How the story gets wildly out of control and how sound effects are created, on the spot, by an ex-sound effects man who is now the security guard for the radio station. If you like radio as it once was, you will like this movie. It is a 1988 release with English subtitles, but don't let the fact that it has subtitles scare you away. They are in yellow and easy to read. As an added bonus one of the stars is Watanabe Ken who was nominated for a best supporting acting award for the movie "The Last Samurai."

Lee Eisenberg Are one of those people who believes that Japan can only make movies about the Yakuza, or such topics? Then look no further than "Rajio no jikan" (called "Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald" in English)! A radio station in Tokyo is broadcasting a love story. It goes smoothly at first, but then they keep rewriting it. From there, their broadcast gets progressively crazier and crazier.Boy! How they came up with that stuff is beyond me, but they did it. The English title comes from...well, I don't want to spoil that scene. The point is that you gotta see this movie if you can find it anywhere. It hearkens back to movies like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming", with the way that something seemingly small branches out into total lunacy. Absolutely hilarious.

Teen Vig I, myself, enjoy some very obscure films. I love Japanese mangas, all of Hitchcock's films and a lot of foreign films. I have a hard time convincing most people that there's so much that isn't made by modern hollywood and is just as good, if not, better. This is one of the few films I would recommend to everyone. This isn't just for Japanese cinema fans... or people that enjoy subtitled movies. This movie is so funny it hurts at times and very clever, without being pretentious. The performances are second to none. You feel so sorry for Mrs. Suzuki, who has put so much of her own aspirations into this radio play's script, only to have it so quickly and frequently ripped apart on a has-been starlet's whim or for the convenience of the sound effects department. It really is one of the funniest films I've seen in a long time. I highly recommend this film to EVERYONE! If you have never seen a Japanese film... or a film with subtitles, this is a good one to start with. Trust me... everyone will love this film.