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Just perfect...

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Quirky gay kid fears his boozer dad and admires his arty mom... until he hits the age of reason and begins to see his life for what it really is: a surprise. At age 14 the protagonist begins dating a 35-year old man who becomes his step-brother -- one of many oddly engaging scenarios in this film which is based on an allegedly true memoir. Trouble is, for all its star-power and meticulous set design, the story lags and drags, becoming more about the memoirist's mother than about the lead character, who gets eclipsed by the zany shuffling of too many eccentric weirdos. As for being funny, it has its moments, but often the actors seem to be trying too hard to make the audience laugh. Kudos to all people involved for taking the story so seriously. And shame on whoever allowed this movie to over-ripen. Trimming 20 minutes from its running time could've probably salvaged it from the depths of mediocrity.

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Augusten Burroughs' childhood is colored by his eccentric aspiring poet mother Deirdre (Annette Bening). His alcoholic father Norman (Alec Baldwin) is distant. As a teen in 1978, he (Joseph Cross) witnesses his parents fighting ending with his father's bloody head. They call in psychiatrist Dr. Finch (Brian Cox). Norman leaves the family. Deirdre and Augusten move in with Dr. Finch and his weird family. His wife Agnes (Jill Clayburgh) eats dog food. Daughter Hope (Gwyneth Paltrow) is religious. The other daughter Natalie (Evan Rachel Wood) digs in Augusten. After confessing to be gay to her, he befriends the older adopted son Neil Bookman (Joseph Fiennes). A drugged up Deirdre signs her money and Augusten over to Dr. Finch.This weird family seems to be too unreal to be taken seriously. It's filled with wild antics. I expect the quirkiness would lead to laughs but none of it is funny. Cross is fine but I don't feel for his character. Ryan Murphy needs to either make this darker or make it more of a comedy. It doesn't really work as either.

Wes Anderson could have turned this quirky, bizarre, surreal and sometime heartfelt story into a little treat. Not that is was that bad, but it wasn't that great either. All the elements were there, but I just couldn't get into the strangeness of it all, even if it was all true. It just needed someone that little bit twisted to tell a truly weird and wonderful tale.Annette Bening perfectly got into the quirkiness, as did Joseph Fiennes and most of the cast. The main lead Joseph Cross almost delivered the goods, but fell short and I guess that's all got to do with the messy script that didn't know what genre it wanted to be. (But it did make me want to read the book.)With all the perfect elements in the book and the cast, it just didn't quiet deliver the goods in the celluloid form, which was a shame because the potential was there.