This movie may be long – very long, but it’s worth it. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button story is so beautiful. The characters are very endearing, and the cinematography and special effects are outstanding. Oh, and I can’t forget the make-up. I need the make-up artist’s information for my own personal use.

This film is a unique story about a newborn baby left on strangers’ steps by his father. This little baby boy is named Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt, Burn after Reading) and he physically looks and has the ailments of an eighty-year-old man who is on his way to the grave. As he ages backwards and grows stronger each day he truly lives life forward. He loves his childhood friend Daisy; he goes off to sea and sees the world. Heck, you look at Benjamin with sadness because of his situation, but I think he lives life more than most people and understood it. I do think the movie should be called The Crazy Case of Benjamin Button. If this were real life, wouldn’t it be crazy?

You know, this is an excellent movie, but it also makes you feel blue at times too. It has all the ingredients to bring forth a few tears -- dying, death, love and romance. And Brad’s character really doesn’t change AT ALL. He speaks in the same tone and moseys on along throughout the entire movie. I needed just a little more jolt from his character. Just a bit. I know that’s how they wanted Benjamin to be, so Brad did his job. Kudos for him however, I just wish I could have shook him and told him to react. The man never yelled, didn’t do a jig or anything.

Taraji P. Henson (Queenie) really did her thing playing Benjamin’s caretaker or as Benjamin would say, “You are my mother.” She was sweet, caring and very comical. I hope we see her in more movies to come. She’s proved that she can stomp with the big dogs like Pitt, Tilda Swinton (Burn after Reading) who plays Elizabeth Abbott and Kate Blanchet (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) who plays Daisy, Benjamin’s heart.

The director David Fincher really created beautiful scenes and the scenery set back in the early 20th century was just gorgeous and real. The panorama helped create the story and how time went on throughout Benajamin’s life.

Oh, I must not forget to tell you that it takes a very long time to see Pitt play his normal age, and when he does it’s for a short amount of time. So, if you are looking to see him in his usual Brad Pitt glory, make sure to have some patience while you wait and try not to blink or you could miss it.

This is the kind of movie that you will either adore and find quite fascinating or think it is painfully too long running for 165 minutes that may give you flashbacks of the old flick Forrest Gump. I thought Button was an interesting movie that left nothing to the imagination. Every scene was set to move the story forward with no ends left untied This movie at times was very poetic with its messages about life and living. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to get up and stretch my legs. Sitting for darn near three hours will give you some major leg cramps. I also looked at my watch a couple of times too wanting to know how much more time I had to go.

If the trailer peeked your curiosity the same as it did me, then you will find the movie just as interesting.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

This movie may be long – very long. I'm talking back aching and legs cramping long however, it’s worth it.

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Synopsis

It’s about a man played by Brad Pitt (Burn after Reading) who is born with the internal and external physical make up of an eighty-year-old man. As he ages, he grows younger instead of older. This film is an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story.

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My Rating ~ 4 Reels

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