Blogcritics Comments on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Comment by Alan Dale on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:16:55 EST

Hey Erin, Thanks for the comment. It's hard for those of us on the other side of the SWC mirror to realize that some people might not like what they see. I have the disease and I don't want the cure! I doubt that further viewing will contaminate someone as resistant as Michael seems to be, however. I'll have to check Wigfield out.

Comment by Alan Dale on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:13:54 EST

Dear Michael, I doubt the movie will change your mind. No accounting for taste! Thanks for writing.

Comment by Erin on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:38:00 EST

What a pleasure to read this in-depth analysis of my favorite show. To those who find it stale & unfunny - you haven't watched it enough. Amy Sedaris does deserve a nomination for Best Actress. Mr. Dale, I would love to see your review of my favorite audiobook, "Wigfield."

Comment by Michael J. West on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:15:30 EST

So if I found the TV show stale, clumsy, and unfunny--which I did--will the movie change my mind?

Comment by Alan Dale on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Sat, 6 Jan 2007 18:42:17 EST

Thanks for the comment, Hobokamp. (Or is that spelled V-I-C-T-O-R-Y?) I totally agree that the show seems simple and bizarre on the surface, but reveals a totally coherent vision underneath. The only thing I would alter is that SWC strikes me as going deeper than social commentary. It dramatizes the lowest estimate of what we humans are, in ourselves. If you know how to send the review to the SWC, please do. Thanks again.

Comment by Hobokamp on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Sat, 6 Jan 2007 18:13:48 EST

Now that was the most thoroughly in-depth review of SWC that I have ever seen! Bravo, well done. You really "get" what they were putting out there. What seems simple and sometimes bizarre on the surface unfolds nicely into a strangely insightful comment on society once you scratch the surface, right? Thanks for the great read-hope Amy, Paul and Stephen all get a chance to see it.

Comment by Alan Dale on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:09:08 EST

Thank you, Mr. Barger for your comment. I'm thrilled that it has made you want to check the movie out. (Remember, though, I was quoting from the series as well as the movie.) SWC has turned me into a combination of St. Paul and Typhoid Mary--I want everyone to succumb, for their own good.

Comment by Alan Dale on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:05:56 EST

Lee Siegel alert: that top e-mail is, in truth, from the B.F. He's not a computer wiz and so he used my log-on without realizing that it would make it look as if I had attempted to comment on my own writing under a pseudonym. Sorry for any confusion.

Comment by Al Barger on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Sat, 6 Jan 2007 01:55:28 EST

Hey, that's some outstanding writing, Mr Dale. I watched just one or two episodes of the series, but this definitely has me interested in seeing the feature film.

Comment by Alan Dale on Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible

Fri, 5 Jan 2007 21:15:51 EST

you have not said it in ways i thought you never could, bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your B.F.