#JOE BLACK THE MOVIE MOVIE#

Meanwhile, William is having severe heart trouble, which takes the form of heavy editing, strident musical melodrama and agonized winces from Mr. Since Brad Pitt's face and body are available, why not visit earth as arm candy from what the film refers to as ''the next place?'' They meet, they flirt and then blam! The young man is dispatched in a traffic accident, which gives faceless, formless Death a bright idea. Susan Parrish (Claire Forlani, fresh and exotically alluring) in a coffee shop. He actually plays two roles, the first a supposedly gee-whiz young man who meets beautiful, dedicated Dr. Naturally, there is much excitement among the Parrishes when Mr. And it devotes one whole dopey subplot to planning William's grandiose birthday fete. It's busy showing off the Parrish family's privileged life style ad nauseam (the lily-gilding is formidable, thanks to production design by Dante Ferretti and Emmanuel Lubezki's polished cinematography). For instance, it would be impossible to commit suicide by jumping off the Eiffel Tower, and withering plant life would flourish perhaps, in the wildly overlong case of ''Meet Joe Black,'' enough plant life to refoliate deserts.Д«ut as directed by Martin Brest, who last made ''Scent of a Woman,'' ''Meet Joe Black'' doesn't even have time for such charming diversions. ''Meet Joe Black'' is a latter-day version of ''Death Takes a Holiday,'' the play that was filmed in 1934 with Fredric March and had some nicely fanciful notions of what might happen if Death gave himself a breather. Pitt might have been expected to give the film a pulse, but his role is conceived in an all too appropriately lifeless fashion. Because William is wise, kind, generous and so well-heeled that he pays no attention to the great paintings on his remarkably many walls (Manhattan triplex, sleek offices, Versailles-like seaside palace), destiny even gives him a gift: a personal afterlife trainer in the form of Brad Pitt. And ''Meet Joe Black'' does its prettified best to find inspiration in watching him die. William Parrish, the noble tycoon played zestily by Anthony Hopkins in this otherwise somnolent, emotion-free weepie, is just such a fortunate paragon. You can even insist, as the oppressively lavish and snail-paced ''Meet Joe Black'' does, that the old wisdom about the rich man and the eye of the needle was dead wrong. And you can spend as much time on your last farewells as it took to sink the Titanic, a ship that doubtless bears some responsibility for the rise of the four-star demise. Perhaps there'll be a party with a dance band and fireworks in your honor.

#JOE BLACK THE MOVIE MOVIE#

Oh, to die in a sugar-coated Hollywood movie while the spiritual schmaltz craze is under way! You look your best.

Joe black the movie