Benjamin Button - TWO stars

Now I know why a 3 star movie like Slumdog won the Oscars -- it had serious 2 star contenders like "Curious case of Benjamin Button" to compete with

While the core idea, thought and in this case just that...a case...was interesting...one wonders how far you can stretch a teeny weeny good idea...into a more than 2 hour film?...hardly!

Well you may argue that the length of a film is of no consequence for a good film and there hiddeth moi point [and there hides my point, for those of you who are single lingual...singlingual]

Tell me how far can great cinematography, performances, and other production values carry a very minuscule idea? It reminds me of the story "the emperor's new clothes", only this is like an exact opposite scenario to that...he was wearing all the finery in the world, but somehow he himself was not there

At the end of the movie you are left wondering...everything was great...but what?...WHY?...and more importantly SO WHAT?

Believe me if this movie was made in Hindi even with all its production finery, we would have laughed our guts out. Which my family and I anyways did...toward the end we began ad libbing funny Bollywood dialogues and laughed at our own jokes -- more than we have laughed for any comedy

The movie has everything -- war scenes, a hurricane, missionary miracles...but yet feels like it has nothing...maybe in Oscar jury language this means something!