Upside Down

 

Upside Down 2012

• • Director: Juan Solanas
  • Based on the book: no
  • Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kirstin Dunst, Timothy Spall, Blu Mankuma
  • Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:

  o   Jim Sturgess – Cloud Atlas, Heartless, The Other Boleyn Girl, Across the Universe

  o   Kirsten Dunst – Hidden Figures, Melancholia, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mona Lisa’s Smile, Levity, Virgin Suicides, Little Women

  o   Timothy Spall – The Party, Mr Turner, The Love Punch, Ginger & Rosa, Harry Potter, The King’s Speech, From Time to Time, Heartless, Sweeney Todd, All or Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Topsy-Turvy, Still Crazy, Our Mutual Friend, Hamlet, Secrets & Lies, Spender, Life Is Sweet

  o   Blu Mankuma – Fringe, 2012, Fierce People, Dead Like Me, The X Files

  ·       Why? Sci fi 

  • Seen: 24 April 2023

               A love story between Adam (Sturgess) who lives Down and Eden (Dunst) who lives Up. Contact between the worlds is forbidden. They find a way.

         It hovers between the ridiculous and the ingenious. The upside downness makes me a little seasick and the love story is banal. But the effects are amazing, it’s entertaining, and I like Jim Sturgess. 

  3* of 5