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Toni Collette Is Clearly Having the Most Fun an Actress Can Have<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Getty</p> <p>On a rainy April afternoon, I sat down for what I was sure would be the campsterpiece of the spring cinematic season, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/toni-collette-mafia-mamma-review-a-shocking-disaster-of-a-movie"><em>Mafia Mamma</em></a>. If you haven’t heard, <em>Mafia Mamma</em> stars <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/toni-collette-on-the-realistic-joneseslucky-them-and-crying-in-the-sixth-sense">Toni Collette</a> as a suburban mom turned Mafia don—a logline that stands out on the film’s poster, because of how it looks and reads like it should rhyme, even though it doesn’t. Not even a slant rhyme. Surely, a snappier choice would’ve been to play “mom” off “mob” in some fashion? But, I digress.</p> <p>This plot is ingenious. Of course, we should <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mafia-mamma-trailer-watch-toni-collette-take-over">give Toni Collette a gun</a>, and have her run around Italy as a bumbling, amateur mob boss. That’s precisely the kind of thing that most movies are missing. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/avatar-the-way-of-water-review-a-bad-big-loud-shiny-mess"><em>Avatar 2: The Way of Water</em></a> would’ve been so much more engaging for someone like me, if it was titled <em>Avatar 2: The Way of Toni Collette’s Accidental International Incidents</em>, instead.</p> <p>When the movie began—and dropped an undeniably fantastic, bold title card over a shot of Collette’s co-star, Monica Bellucci, standing among a sea of dead mob members—I thought I was in the right place. But over the course of its (inconsiderately long) runtime, I found myself asking several questions that I was not expecting to ponder when I walked in the door. Queries such as: Why? How? When will this be over? And: Is it too late for God to save us? To put it quite simply: <em>Mafia Mamma</em> is a disaster of epic proportions.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mafia-mamma-proves-toni-collette-is-having-the-most-fun">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Getty

On a rainy April afternoon, I sat down for what I was sure would be the campsterpiece of the spring cinematic season, Mafia Mamma. If you haven’t heard, Mafia Mamma stars Toni Collette as a suburban mom turned Mafia don—a logline that stands out on the film’s poster, because of how it looks and reads like it should rhyme, even though it doesn’t. Not even a slant rhyme. Surely, a snappier choice would’ve been to play “mom” off “mob” in some fashion? But, I digress.

This plot is ingenious. Of course, we should give Toni Collette a gun, and have her run around Italy as a bumbling, amateur mob boss. That’s precisely the kind of thing that most movies are missing. Avatar 2: The Way of Water would’ve been so much more engaging for someone like me, if it was titled Avatar 2: The Way of Toni Collette’s Accidental International Incidents, instead.

When the movie began—and dropped an undeniably fantastic, bold title card over a shot of Collette’s co-star, Monica Bellucci, standing among a sea of dead mob members—I thought I was in the right place. But over the course of its (inconsiderately long) runtime, I found myself asking several questions that I was not expecting to ponder when I walked in the door. Queries such as: Why? How? When will this be over? And: Is it too late for God to save us? To put it quite simply: Mafia Mamma is a disaster of epic proportions.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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