Enlarge / In Colossal, Anne Hathaway plays Gloria, a party girl whose drunken binges seem to have awakened a giant monster in Seoul.
The premise of indie director Nacho Vigalondo’s new film Colossal is so weird that it might just work. It’s about loser millennial Gloria (Anne Hathaway), a party girl whose drunken binges cause a giant monster to awaken and rampage through Seoul. The debris of her personal life seems somehow psychically linked to the kaiju destruction.
Though its star Hathaway is an Academy Award winner and celebrity, Colossal snuck into the world without much fanfare. It just debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, and early reviews suggest it’s uneven but definitely worth watching. The plot combines your typical “aimless thirtysomething” plot with giant monster action.
When Gloria’s boyfriend dumps her, she returns to her hometown, broke and depressed. But during yet another drunken night at a bar, her childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) comes back into her life. That’s when she starts to realize that there’s a mysterious connection between her drinking binges and the kaiju destroying Seoul. In a clip from the movie, we’re introduced to our main characters, as they talk about how Gloria spilled her guts to Oscar when she was plastered the night before.
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Source: Ars Technica – An intriguing new giant monster movie that’s also a character study