It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Short and Simple Review by WubsTheFadgerManderlay is the sequel to the amazing experimental film Dogville. Manderlay takes place right after Dogville and is about a town were slavery is not abolished. The story is at best okay. I found it too political and how it made it seem like white people owed blacks something. The film had too much white guilt over slavery scenes. I did find the ending very good because it made Grace realize that Dogville and Manderlay are both places where good people don't exist. All of the actors from Dogville were replaced in Manderlay which is one of the worst aspects of the film. Bryce Dallas Howard is no where near Nicole Kidman and this is the worst part of the film. Bryce Dallas Howard is shown nude. She is shown full frontal. Her breasts, though they are small, and orange pubic hair can be seen very clearly. There is also a scene where she spreads her legs and her vulva can be seen for a split second.The pacing is slow but Lars does this in order to develop the characters and the story. The runtime is nonetheless overlong.Pros: Good experimental film, an okay story, good ending, seeing Bryce Dallas Howard nude, and slow pacing that develops the characters and storyCons: Way too political, all the actors were replaced, some of the pacing is too slow, and an overlong runtimeOverall Rating: 7.3

How poorly written!Talk about a heavy hand.This movie is nearly unwatchable.The main character simply proselytizes on and on and on and on until she practically starts foaming at the mouth and falls over backwards!I'm really unsure how anyone can sit through this borefest. It's simply dreadful. And how many times does this dumb chick have to say "we made them what they are?"HUh? We didn't hear you the 204th time?OMG burn the film Please burn the negative! Please!! Bury every copy.

The way that director Lars Von Trier can point his finger so solemnly and self-importantly at a country he's never lived in is insufferable. The look of the film is tough on the eyes to watch. Can't a serious film be at least mildly pleasing aesthetically? I'd hope so. Cinema is a visual art form after all. And Von Trier's message? Moronic obvious nonsense about slavery still existing 70 years later, the fact that capitalism itself becomes slavery, and comparing Grace's (Bryce Dallas Howard) fight to end the slavery at Manderlay with the U.S. invasion of Iraq. As in "Dogville", Von Trier has no concept of what he speaks. Thankfully I didn't pay to see the movie so I'm glad he didn't reap any rewards from me or my crew.

My first, belated run-in with von Trier is this hyper-extended, unfathomably brutal condemnation of white youth activism's ahistorical egotism. At least, that's what I got out of it: the loathsomely self-righteous Bryce Dallas Howard's attempts to 'educate' a community of newly-freed Southern slaves and their masters may be intended as a metaphor for globalization or something, but there's more than enough to chew on right there on the surface. Especially for someone who has spent his own time wrestling with the culture-bound, missionary pitfalls of liberation rhetoric. The minimalist lines-on-the-studio-floor design job directs your full attention to the brilliant cast, who seem perfectly and improbably attuned to this snooty outsider's vision of America. On this evidence von Trier would be this century's Carl-Theodor Dreyer: brilliant and compelling, but not exactly the life of the party. My attention never wandered, and it's a good thing because otherwise I wouldn't have enjoyed the full impact of the mind-bending wrap-up. Docked a mark for being so hard to endure, even though (or because) that's the point.