Colossal

First, give Colossal credit for the best high-low (or is it low-high?) film concept of the year so far: A monster movie in which the airplane-swatting, city-stomping terror is real, but the true beast is the one hiding at the bottom of a bottle.

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Thankfully, however, the climax prevails in its thematic resonance, moral quandary, and righteous hope. The monster may kill nameless hundreds, but its ability to save one could make everything worthwhile. Great power forever brings great responsibility, but we aren’t all as pure as Peter Parker.

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In substance, it might be Vigalondo’s most ambitious film to date. And while there’s a sense at times of his uncertainty in fully committing to the ideas on the page, in the moments when the conceptual component of “Colossal” is fully embraced, the results are truly chilling.

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Colossal has such an easygoing, offhand vibe, and takes such pleasure in its characters’ foibles, that it camouflages its deep subject, which is rage.

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One woman’s addictions manifest as a giant kaiju in this strange (and strangely funny) film from Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo.

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Colossal is as refreshingly different a monster movie as it is a clever, timely take on bullying, domestic abuse and toxic masculinity.

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It’s probably not what you think it is, but that’s okay… mostly.

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Hathaway and Sudeikis totally nail their respective roles (kudos to the great Tim Blake Nelson, to boot), and while Colossal falls shy of perfection, so does real life. Who would have thought Anne Hathaway plus giant-ass monsters plus booze would result in such a smart, genre-defying, femme self-actualization manifesto? Nacho Vigalondo, that’s who.

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This weird marriage of indie earnestness and matter-of-fact fantasy gives Colossal its moderately engaging distinction.

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Audiences who step into Colossal unaware of where Nacho Vigalondo is taking them will be nothing if not surprised.

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Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis rekindle an old friendship while giant monsters terrorize Seoul in this sci-fi oddity directed by Nacho Vigalondo.

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Two seemingly incongruous categories — the small-scale romantic doodle and the rampaging-creature feature — are brought together in Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal, a film that never really fulfills the potential of its adventurous premise.

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Anne Hathaway's emotional problems have a "Colossal" impact in Nacho Vigalondo's comic fantasy.

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A compellingly odd premise about a woman who develops a psychic connection with a monster rampaging through South Korea is ultimately just not quite odd enough.

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