Welcome to the Party

God bless Robert Downey, Jr. The guy has such a style about him, and he's so good in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Without belaboring the point, I'll just say this is a terrifically funny movie. I just wish I could remember more than a couple lines of dialogue. You see, Downey says all his lines in such a matter-of-fact, rapid-fire style that it's all good and you're laughing too hard to remember much of what's been said. And fuck if I know what the movie's actually about (the plot lost me about a quarter of the way in), but it's just so much fun that you don't care. I suppose the self-referential thing does get a little bit old — Downey's narrator makes reference to the audiences in Times Square that are prone to talking back to the screen and to the multiple endings of the third Lord of the Rings film, among other topics — but whatever. There's so much else to laugh at that this is just a minor quibble. In the end, I can't quite decide what to rate this one, so I'm going to go with a B+/A-.