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Characters turn into cardboard, plots funny in the telling become imbecile in the illustration. The secret of such lunatic comedy, as Stanley Kubrick understood so well in Dr. Strangelove, is to hold things down, to enhance the weirdness by emphasizing the basic realism of the situation. Two new movie adaptations practically stumble over themselves rushing in the opposite direction, with results that almost humiliate their original sources...
...Putney Swope is not for people who hate Stanley Kubrick or for those who believe in common decency and/or logic; some of it is filthy, and the whole film practically disintegrates before your eyes, like Alka-Seltzer. But the commercials-within-the-movie will be cherished...
...Abbey Cinema-Stanley Kubrick's masterwork, 2001: A Space Odyssey, "Suggested for stoned audiences." 600 Commonwealth...
...surprising that Downey also likes nearly all of Stanley Kubrick's movies. Kubrick, like Downey, never travels in airplanes and does not believe in order. In Space Odyssey, where a cool-calm computer turns into a cool-calm homicidal maniac, Kubrick pulls the rug out from under seemingly sound systems in the same manner as Downey does in Swope. And the people who called 2001 plotless and pointless are bound to say the same thing about Downey's film...
...SPACE ODYSSEY. Man's first step on the moon lends new immediacy to Stanley Kubrick's epic film about a voyage to Jupiter that assumes awesome metaphysical consequences. Kubrick is one of the best American film makers, and 2001 may be his masterpiece...