Arthur

  Dudley Moore first captured out hearts as Arthur in the 1981 release of this lovable characters drunken antics, but now there's a new Arthur for a much newer generation.  I watched the original film and was instantly in love with the crazed boy like billionaire.  This remake wasn't one I had wanted to see in the theater, so I waited for it to come out on On Demand for Comcast.
  Arthur (Russell Brand) is a ridicules man child that has to much time on his hands and too easy a access to billions of dollars.  Proved by his crazed need to give things away.  Having no time spent with his real mother, Arthur is raised by his nanny, Hobson (Helen Mirren).  They continue their love, hate relationship until the end and push off jokes like no other.
  Beyond the great one lines, I find Russell Brand's rants to be a bit unnerving.  Sad to say, but with his accent, I find it hard to understand him when he starts to go a hundred miles a minute.  Just slow down a bit, we'll still get the joke, I swear.  Now that I've seen Brand in several movies, I'm finding myself to come upon mixed feelings.  On one hand I find his jokes to be fucking hilarious.  In the other hand, I find his acting to be a bit dull.  He falls into the same roles time after time.  He's starting to become just like his wife, Katy Perry, a one trick pony.
  However much I missed of the vocal exchange was happily made up by Greta Gerwig.  Gerwig played Arthur's love interest Naomi Quinn.  She was cute in all the right ways.  Bubbly and a bit off center.  It was kinda interesting to see her interact with Arthur's forced loved interest, Susan Johnson (Jennifer Garner).  The whole bitch and saint comparison comes to mind.
  Despite Gerwig cute performance, Garner proved to be quite a bitch.  I think she has this down to an exact art form by now.  She too seems to be a bit type cast as the overbearing mean one.  Who knows, maybe its all that bent up anger from Ben.
  Overall, the jokes where funny as hell, but you get a lot of down time.  The acting was a bit under pare and it just lacked a little something extra.  I would watch it for a quick laugh but it isn't something I could see over and over.  I would have liked to see what was left on The Editor's Floor.