Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

RavenGlamDVDCollector The trailer of this one was mostly off-putting. It showed possibilities, but Patricia Arquette in that awful wig? I watched it again and again, and focused on the positive, but the uncertainty made me wait (+ the option I found was hellishly expensive) but the research on IMDb showed a considerable interest in this movie, including the kid on the board post whose Mommy forbid seeing it.A more affordable British option became available, but I still kept holding back, especially after GOODBYE, LOVER, an earlier DVD purchase, drew a less-than-thrilled-with-Patricia response. Yet, it is a RavenGlam idiom here in ElectricLadyLand, "she's an Arquette", yes, glamor runs in that bloodline. So, I finally took the chance. When it came to watching, I was just prepared, do not expect too much, you are bound to be disappointed.I was very quickly nicely surprised. This was very well done. The al fresco nudist scene with Patricia singing that bit about all the hair and the cuddly old bear while the forest denizens watch on, that is just movie magic, admittedly very, very off-beat, I am a total purist at heart and wouldn't want the cast of 90210 or MELROSE PLACE to sprout hair, hair everywhere, but this sequence was so innocent and charming...Okay, there are bits in the movie that needed a rethink. And Nathan was so dull, why he had Gabrielle interested in him as well, I fail to understand. She wasn't a gold-digger, he surely wasn't even rich, what did he have to offer? His nice personality??? Miranda Otto is another very big plus point of this movie. She played her sexy faux French chick to perfection. Okay, I fail to understand why she and Puff unites at the end, she is supposed to be a bad girl. If it's for sex, it's not for some devious reason. Anyway, love Miranda's bedroom lair and her nice long legs. Gee, for those of you who misunderstood, Gabrielle knew exactly how hot she was, and just pretended to feel ordinary to draw a deluge of compliments from Nathan.Loved her whirlwind clean-up act. Sounds only, but imagine it as a cartoon.Movie starts off great, fails to maintain that level. It is grossly uneven. But I am very glad I bought it. With all its faults, it is well worth watching. I'd just not have brought death into a comedic plot. Takes the fun out of it.Oh, and I'm pretty sure it is not raven nature to fly into trees. Those two mice were too darling for this world, they could never be allowed out on their own.

swillsqueal The evolution of a species has much to do with its ability to live in harmony with the Earth. Those plants and animals which don't or can't live in harmony with their environment don't survive.Humans make history. That's one of their adaptive characteristics. Reason evolves out of environments totally dominated by Nature into ones which are symbiotically entwined with Nature. Instinct needs to be tamed a bit by reason in order for humanity to gradually civilize itself--a psychologically repressive venture to be sure, one that spawns many neuroses. But then, as Freud told us in CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, repression of instinct, freedom and the id is necessary to keep civilization together. But is the civilization we've got, the best of all possible worlds? Imagine sitting in an office all day, pushing paper at some ultimately, meaningless desk job when you'd really rather be having sex with the secretarial staff. Repress those thoughts and carry-on... or not, as Puff's father did one day when he decided that he'd had enough of this civilization stuff. That was the day, Puff's father decided to jump up onto his desk, screech his way out of work and become an ape--literally to go back to Nature. "Prison break!" "Human Nature" is funny. On the one hand you have a mild mannered scientist named Dr. Nathan Bronfman who is trying to introduce civilized table manners to white mice within a lab setting and on the other you have a father who has kidnapped his young son from the civilized lap of his mother in order to raise him "Wild Child" style, as an ape in the forests of an overly industrialized America. "Human Nature" is funny because of juxtapositions like these. You see, within this industrialized America there is no room for a dwarf with an IQ of 170, who has a Phd to get any work outside of selling his labour time as a side-show freak, 'flying' an airplane costume in a circus ring, complete with a hairy woman who plays King Kong on the Empire State building (that famous last scene where, it wasn't the airplane who killed Kong, 'it was beauty killed the beast'). Hairy, sexy Lila can't earn a living in any other way than by playing King Kong to a side-show dwarf in airplane costume. Looks can be deceiving and the language of deceit is a large part of what civilized behaviour demands. People can't accept Lila as she is and she knows it. Much as the mythical Tarzan and King Kong, Lila's being violates the decorum of civilization itself. So, she decides to drop out of her side-show wage-slavery, much like Puff's dad and so the ape fest goes until ape meets ape-ess; ape meets civilization; ape-ess meets man and jungle; man meets Lila in hairless disguise and dwarf meets Lila's friend, the beautician with the wickedly snappy electrolysis wand. "Human Nature" is not only great comedy, it's a semi-profound speculative discourse on just what human nature is and how some of that nature is changed and some not changed through the history which humans make, write and remember. Thus, "Human Nature" has more to say to us than films with a similar plot outline e.g., "The Mystery of Kasper Hauser". It's also much funnier than your standard sexual farce. Give "Human Nature" a chance. See it and maybe, uncover some of your own basic instincts. Experience the refreshing wisdom of laughing at yourselves. And, hint, it wouldn't hurt to find a copy of the Kinks'sardonic "Apeman" to listen to before you start the movie.

buonanotte I'm writing a comment about "Human Nature" just because I can't wait for the release of "Synecdoche, New York". "Adaptation" was great but still to raw, the "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" was genuinely sweet and passionate. The good result at the box office confirmed the hit quality and quantity. "Human Nature", such as "Being John Malkovich", is hard to suggest to the average viewer despite Gondry's direction made it a colourful and brilliant joint. The one and only problem with "Human nature" is that it never makes you laugh. If you laugh, you'll regret it. And you get used to it straight away. Tim Robbins is amazing. The little details spread all over the film are countless (The crooked teeth of Lila, the mice holding the ad at the end of the story...) and Gondry found also a way to stick in a sung tune. I really hope Kaufman not to become redundant. The plot looks creepy and mysterious. We all know that he's a master at doing it. But will he change direction?

jzappa I am not happy that Human Nature is as underrated as it is. Charlie Kaufman is, bar none, the most brilliant screenwriter in the world. In the world. His other films being contemporary classics, this as well as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind are not considered amongst Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Confessions is in my top 10 favorite movies, and Human Nature does not leave anything to be desired. In any Kaufman script, you will find a tremendously acute portrayal of life through the perspective of a great thinker. Kaufman has more depth, more fixed mental clarity, than most other writers in general. Human Nature, while being the only one of his movies that is a straight comedy, is no different in that respect.It is fantastically entertaining as a comedy, keen as a social observation, and its cast provides performances that are among the most intriguing, sensitive, hilarious and arresting of their careers, subtle or not. Michel Gondry, the director, is pre-Eternal Sunshine, and is perhaps still honing his craft in terms of making a feature-length film. Eternal Sunshine is his masterpiece, but directorially, Human Nature is part of the latter stages of his warm-up period.Human Nature is another one of those buried treasures that flies below the radar, and when people hear of it or see an ad for it, they mistake it for one of the movies that deservedly flies below the radar, waving it off saying, "Well, if it's not that big a hit, then it must not be that good." Don't make the mistake of passing this one up. It is one of the most inventive and intelligently funny comedies you'll ever see.