Is Donnie crazy? or more in touch with the universe than anyone around him?

The Bird Lady and her spouse gave me this for my birthday last year, it being one of her favorite movies, and to tell the truth, it had been on my Netflix list for quite a while. "You'll like it," she said, "it's got a demonic bunny in it."

So I took it with me on one of my visits to Southern California, to watch in my motel room.

And Frank the bunny was oogie. So I stopped watching it about 15 minutes along, thinking I would wait until Mr. Otter could watch it with me.

I mentioned this to the Bird Lady. "Oh, no," she said, "Frank isn't oogie, really, you'll see."

So Mr. Otter and I watched it. And, as I had suspected: Frank was way, way oogie. Even after you find out what's going on with him...he's oogie.

Having said all that, this was a pretty darn good movie.

Firstly, it stars Jake Gyllenhaal, serious honey. This was made in 2001, when he was only 21, but his honeyness is apparant, and is only getting more and more evident. And he's a good actor too, double points to you Mr. Gyllenhaal!

The other actors in this move are good too, and Drew Barrymore is so understated that I totally didn't recognize her. Amazing. And the special effects are really good too. And of course Frank is there for oogies.

And the plot. Hm. On the one hand, it was really fascinating...on the other hand, I had problems with how it worked out, which is where the reality police show up...but which I also can't talk about without giving away everything, sorry.

But it's a very good, suspenseful movie, a little scary, kind of perplexing, good for those who like conspiracy theory sorts of stuff and also plain ol' science fiction buffs like me. Watch it and enjoy it, this is a good one.