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A Masterpiece!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

One of the worst movies I've seen. Amateurish editing, annoying soundtrack, and gratuitous violence -- used in an attempt to cover up the boredom and pointlessness of the story. Pretentious and shallow filmmaking .This is really torturous to watch. Callum Blue gives a particularly poor performance. Adam Baldwin is a close second worst. Modine's fake pretentious English accent becomes very grating and has no reason. Repetitive backgrounds become jarring. Terrible soundtrack. Just really, really bad.

"Little Fish, Strange Pond" (which is a title about 14 times better than "Frenemy") wants to be...something. It wants it so bad that you're willing to bend your standards a bit for it. But the parts don't add up to much, I'm afraid.You know from the first ten minutes there's really no chance of this being "good." Director Dark seems desperate to prove his indie cred, but there's little sense that he knows what the hell he's doing (indeed, some of his porn titles are more assured). There's lots of shock, some comedy, some horror, some satire, lots of artsy cuts and edits, a bit of surrealism, and lead characters with no redeeming qualities. I can get behind all this, and there are moments, particularly after the clumsy setup, where the philosophical ramblings and dark, aimless story really holds your interest. The music helps too - it bridges the gaps in radically uneven scenes and adds some much-needed charm to the proceedings.But too often, writer Klein and Dark push too hard. They want to be NOTICED, so they allow the actors (particularly Modine) to over-indulge in "quirks," creating a cinematic artificiality that the movie cannot recover from. They're play-acting, and a movie like this needs gritty realism. Then again, given the over-written script (which is chock-full of underdeveloped ideas), the movie never really had a prayer.It's a mess. It doesn't work. Modine overdoes it. It's full of crap philosophy and the direction and story are self-consciously "edgy." But damned if it doesn't linger, giving you images and ideas to ponder for a long time. If you're in the right frame of mind, it's worth seeing, if only because you have to admire Dark for trying something new.

Just a few words. First, the movie was above average. I like that the director was trying to do something different, but I think he didn't take his weirdness far enough. I'd like to have seen more stylistic camera work, and perhaps better written dialog at times. I mainly signed up to post this: Am I the only one tired of these anti-intellectual pricks coming on here just to say OH I GUESS I'M NOT ARTSY ENOUGH TO GET THIS MOVIE or OH THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO LIKE THIS MOVIE THINK THEY ARE SUPERIOR.How insecure are people who post comments like that? How much of an inferiority complex do you have to have to watch a movie you don't enjoy and then automatically assume that everyone who enjoys it imagines themselves as superior to you? I think my previous sentence might be a bit too long for such people to follow. Translation: YOU INSECURE. OTHER PEOPLE LIKE MOVIE. THAT ALL. GO BED. BETTER YET EAT CHEETO. A LOT CHEETO. Some people enjoy movies (or don't enjoy them (I'm not sure the type of people I'm addressing can understand the concept of digressive parenthetical remarks--particularly parentheses within parentheses--not to mention the double dashes which serve as further parenthetical-type remarks--no doubt this type thinks parentheses are optional and thus when happening upon that first curvy line skips immediately to the last curvy line--thus this type won't know I'm insulting them right here, right now)) without thinking about whether they appear intelligent to others for enjoying said movies. In other words, if you think other people think they are smarter than you because they like a movie---they are probably smarter than you. But not for that reason.

Plain and simply Awful:I rented this movie for a $1.07 and feel I've been robed. I don't usually do reviews but took the time to warn you: Do NOT, I repeat DO NOT watch this movie; if you value yourself and your time. Bad dialogue pointless or almost non existing theme, it's not some sort of new art it's just a really bad movie with actors you may have seen before (agents should be punished literally like physical or standing in a corner for two weeks or something more creative than the movie itself and then fired for getting them these parts). It has nothing to do with being intellectual or understanding anything. It's just a really bad movie maybe good for a seminar on art school of what not to do as a director, writer, producer, camera operator, gaffer, grip etc....I voted 1 because 0 is not an option. You've been warned...