Far less than the sum of its parts (a stellar cast and original concept), 'I Heart Huckabees' is still worth seeing, if only because movies this truly strange rarely get made in Hollywood. Jason Schwartzman plays a manchild who hires an existential detective agency to help him solve the mystery behind three coincidences in his life. The detectives, played by Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman, mostly ignore the coincidences and instead help Schwartzman find the meaning of life. This story is, of course, nonsense, and it's refreshingly treated as such throughout the movie. All the major roles in 'I Heart Huckabees' (with the exception of an Americanized Jude Law) are filled with actors who seem to be playing themselves and having a great time doing it.
The point is that the plot is beside the point. The movie nods to the big questions - and even answers them - without taking itself at all seriously. If ever a film could accurately be called a romp, it's this one, and that isn't an insult. The film doesn't add up to very much, but because it never really pretends to, it's possible to just sit back and enjoy a nearly two hour string of odd, funny scenes without asking for very much more.
MAYBE SO (6/10)
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