SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

SnoopyStyle Guy Noir (Kevin Kline) is a hard-boiled character working security at the radio program 'A Prairie Home Companion' and it's the last night on the air. Garrison Keillor brings some great A-list stars into his movie. There is also the master director Robert Altman. Dusty (Woody Harrelson) and Lefty (John C. Reilly) are cowboy singing duo. Virginia Madsen plays the mysterious woman in white. Yolanda (Meryl Streep) and Rhonda Johnson (Lily Tomlin) are sister singing duo as Yolanda tries to get her daughter Lola (Lindsay Lohan) to sing with them.I have never heard the radio show. I'm not really a fan of this kind of music. The good reviews and Robert Altman attracted me to the movie. There is barely anything here for me. It's obvious to say this movie meanders. That is part of Altman's style. However I have a hard time find anything compelling in this. It became very repetitive for me. Keillor has the presence of a stuffy college professor. The A-list cast is interesting but then they add an actress like Lohan. It's not that she does a horrible job as much as she sticks out like a sore thumb. This is just not a movie for me.

Camoo Entering into an Altman film is exactly that - 'entering'. We're never properly introduced to the characters as much as we are dropped into their world and made to keep track of the faces we meet along the way. Watching A Prairie Home Companion is to see a the great joy of creation - actors, writers, designers, musicians all allowed to roam free and do what they do best. The film is a sprawling homage to the radio show, and fans will find a lot to enjoy here. Familiar characters played by familiar actors pop in an out of each scene, giving the impression of a large family enjoying each others company. Though there was a working script, very little of the film feels scripted. Scenes flow from one chapter to another with a fast paced choreography which nods back to previous Altman films like 'Nashville', the action all taking place in a contained space, the actors playing off each other like a ping-pong tournament. This being Altman's final film - the woman in white no doubt signifies a lot more than might have been intended. You get the feeling that he felt the end was coming, and that he damn better well have fun before he got there.

manendra-lodhi The film tells the story of a radio group who are performing for the last time. The film is full of scenes on backstage as well as on stage. There are numerous songs. The lives of these people have been shown in the film. And to be exact their last day is being shown in the radio show. While there is no particular Antagonist or the Protagonist, everyone is doing their own job. I liked the idea of the film.PROS: The film presents a very nice backstage Ambiance. The performances by all were amazing. The way they handled things when something goes wrong on the stage was awesome. There is a lot of overlapping dialogs in the films which will induce some confusion in your mind and at the same time make you to listen to them carefully. The sound mixing was good as for the whole time, the songs were being sung on the stage and they had to be intermingled with the backstage talks. The more important thing that was conveyed in the film was that the performers were so old but then also they had the same energy to perform. Because that is what they love doing. There was no hatred among the performers on the stage and that was very nice to see.CONS: Sometimes the comedy looked too much and did not looked funny but a little absurd. The cast did not perform weirdly or overly acted but that the situations looked too obvious. Sometimes you might feel bored also because the film is slow. But in all it is a subtle comedy.MESSAGE: "Where there is will there is way." VERDICT: "A recommended watch."

Cristi_Ciopron Is there a certain Altman flavor? Perhaps even an Altman gift? They both seem to be undetectable.A PRAIRIE … looks as if intended to be meaningful and deep and eerily original. But its author belongs to the same class with W Allen, Soderbergh, Scorsese, Eastwood and the rest of the hacks.I find Altman's cinema quite lifeless and if someone is going to retort that it is not even meant to be lively I will answer him by pointing that I do not know what else is it supposed to be. I enjoyed some bits of A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, but consider Altman's presumed artistic merits to be wholly imaginary. The gimmick of Asfodel in her white trench, ironic as that might have been, was nonetheless a false note; but the whole movie is a bit of nonsense. I recommend the music, there are LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE ON ME, some awesome bad jokes, etc..On a second thought, there is a note in this movie, something of interest.