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American Beauty is a movie about teenagers--regardless of the characters' respective ages. For one thing, it tries to approximate teen behavior by having every young actor precariously hop back and forth from self-absorbed vulnerable insecurity to, well, self-absorbed, haughty insecurity.
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www.kenchen.org/writing/abeauty.htm
www.kenchen.org/writing/abeauty.htm
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Pros: Good acting; Cons: No real plot, bad writing, stereotypical characters; The Bottom Line: I would not recommend this to anyone. After viewing American Beauty, I honestly wonder if the critics saw the same movie I did.
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www.epinions.com/review/mvie_mu-1093536/mvie-review-491...
www.epinions.com/review/mvie_mu-1093536/mvie-review-4915-1295DFE4-3942C822-prod1
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"American Beauty" is not a perfect film. Writer Alan Ball has created a couple of quirky characters too many, especially Chris Cooper's ... Fitts, a send-up stereotype that could have come from Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket." His character doesn't seem to fit and when he is on screen, American Beauty goes a bit a-kilter.
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www.killermovies.com/a/americanbeauty/reviews/bxt.html
www.killermovies.com/a/americanbeauty/reviews/bxt.html
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It’s not an attack on American Suburbia, it’s an expose on the hypocrisy and ... The only other character who can share this insight is the apparently ‘perverted psycho’ Ricky, who’s ability to see beauty in death gives him a depth of compassion which breaks from the stereotype he is initially portrayed as.
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www.snappyfingers.co.uk/text/reviews/americanbeauty.htm
www.snappyfingers.co.uk/text/reviews/americanbeauty.htm
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American Beauty explores the dark, comic, tragic, and ironic aspects of our dread to truly know ourselves. We pretend we are someone ... The characters of American Beauty air their white, middle class stereotypical foibles so charmingly that even the most bitter and angry, or even criminal drug dealers win our empathy.
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www.cinemasense.com/Reviews/american_beauty.htm
www.cinemasense.com/Reviews/american_beauty.htm
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Larger, anyway, than the other characters in American Beauty, who for the most part would indeed have no idea what Ricky or Lester are talking about. The beauty of the world is largely lost on the likes of Lester’s estranged wife Carolyn (Annette Bening);
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www.decentfilms.com/sections/reviews/1885
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It is strange indeed that this is the word that I have so long labored over to describe American Beauty, for two reasons. First of all, it seems at first inappropriate. For in fact, ... Perhaps it is the oversimplification and stereotypical nature of the characters (I felt like I was watching a movie the whole time,
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www.the-reel-mccoy.com/movies/1999/americanbeauty.html
www.the-reel-mccoy.com/movies/1999/americanbeauty.html
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To put it simply, the acting in American Beauty is fantastic, with the teen actors, usually a drawback in most films, giving particularly strong performances. While my friend Garth thought their characters were stereotypical, I found them to be compelling.
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www.tollbooth.org/movies/americanbeauty.html
www.tollbooth.org/movies/americanbeauty.html
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The next scene in the sequence is Lester and Brad in Brad’s office (American Beauty, 1999). Here the same camera angels are used for both characters, but the emphasis is on scale.
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www.scribd.com/doc/97573/Critical-Analyse-of-American-B...
www.scribd.com/doc/97573/Critical-Analyse-of-American-Beauty
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