The Big Lebowski . Tucson Weekly . 03-16-98

The Big Lebowski

DIRECTED BY: Joel Coen

REVIEWED: 03-16-98

The latest comedy from the Coen brothers never really comes together as a whole; but the texture of it, as it spills across the screen, is funny, strange and wonderful. Jeff Bridges plays a type-B personality called the Dude, a chronically unemployed pot smoker dedicated to nothing except his bowling buddies, and bowling itself. A case of mistaken identity leads the Dude into some uncool, high-stress situations: kidnapping, gunplay, robbery, and the like. All this seems like an excuse to introduce a palette of oddball characters from the California spectrum. The Coen brothers have a great time concocting visual subplots and dream sequences that reference everything from Busby Berkeley musicals to spaghetti westerns to detective films, but they give their most loving attention to the bowling sequences. Who knew bowling was such a photogenic sport?

--Richter

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