Movies - May 30

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) Directed by Takashi Miike, who gets talked about a lot by film geeks, so I figured I ought to see something by him. Bad choice. This seems to be nothing but an exercise in silliness - family opens a guest house in the country but all their guests die, there are musical numbers and claymation sequences, but it looks like they just made it up as they went along. Judging by the trailers included on the disc there appears to be an entire genre of this sort of half-assed amateurish crap, movies made up entirely of cliches. I don't need to see any more movies that are all cliches, but unfortunately it seems to be an established artform now. And it's so much easier to do. 3/10