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Frank Miller's The Spirit was just that, a Frank Miller rendition. The style didn't suit the source material in the least, forcing it to seem pretentious and washed out, like an old dog forced to play dead MULTIPLE TIMES. What little slapstick that was in this film was uninspired, and the writing (which would have been funny if the style didn't make you expect everything to be serious) seemed like something you would see in a parody of a parody of a noir film. Every female character in this movie looked like either a high-class prostitute, a model, or a stripper. Not even the extras had any difference in body-type (one or two pieces of eye candy is fine, but an entire city of them is a bit of a stretch). Typical Miller. If the script for The Spirit had been used for an animated movie, possibly in the style of The Incredibles (with a darker feel), it would have been more appreciated, but when it's shoe-horned into a Sin City wannabe flick, it can never be seen for what it should have been. It failed to capture the audience's attention from the beginning, with an intro that dragged on like drying paint, as if it was trying to fill the time without advancing the plot. And don't even get me started on that "great ass" joke.

So, after you get past the forced noir feel, the unneeded serious atmosphere, and the whoreswhoreswhores, it's still only tolerable at best. Wait for the DVD.


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