What a waste of my time!!!

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

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

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in. Wonder Boys has a terrific and talented cast of big names like Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Rip Torn and Robert Downey Jr but the film's weird characters, bland acting and terrible script makes up for an awful movie. There's an entire plot with a dead dog, Douglas writing a book and also Douglas falling down in the entire film plus it's 1hr and 47mins only and it feels like 2hrs and 30mins that's how bad it was personally please go and see L.A Confidential it's a better directed movie and also a better acted movie too. (0/10)

Equipped with a lot of talented actors and maybe the best performance of Michael Douglas , this is one of a kind movie , great story and chemistry among cast , fully hilarious . watchable multiple times

This is a great movie in the same genre with Cohen brothers and Richard Linklater. If you like witty dialogue, comically brilliant situations and excellent acting, watch this movie. Oh, if you like silly story lines and graphic sex and violence, as well as, a complete absence of vocabulary beyond the word "f...",give it a miss. It is rare these days to find a movie that can stimulate the mind and still inspire laughter. It seems we have either in your face violence that is so graphic it turns the stomach. I often wonder if there are so many people who know so little about the sex act that they have to have it blatantly exhibited on the screen. Whatever happened to imagination? You don't have to be an intellectual to enjoy this movie, just have good taste

This 2000 Curtis Hanson film was the second best he made after L.A. Confidential and together with Bedroom Window. It is a story of two people of completely different background, a middle aged writing professor and his student and protégé. The professor, played by Michael Douglas in one of his strongest roles, is going thru a crisis and drinks a lot, after his younger wife has left him. He is also having problems finishing his second book. The young and bright but troubled protégé is played by Tobey Maguire. Then there is also Douglas' eccentric and flamboyant editor and friend played by the excellent Robert Downey Jr. A guy who is a swinger and according to Douglas "is gay, or thinks he is". Katie Holmes also appears as another of Douglas' students who is smitten with him but he rejects her advances.There are also a few really amusing side characters, such as the man Douglas and Downey Jr. dub VERNON HARDAPPLE, who gives the movie a comical edge. The whole movie is somewhat of a dark comedy really, with scenes like the one where Maguire kills a dog who attacked Douglas and Douglas has to keep his body in the trunk of his car for a week or at the end where the manuscript for his latest book flies away. When he's asked by Downey Jr if he has a copy, he replies "I have an alternative ending of the second chapter". This is what is so enjoyable with this movie: not only is it a character study drama but also a humorous oddball comedy with some exciting plot twists. In the end the roles are almost switched as Douglas the mentor starts to learn from Maguire the protégé and discovers that he has talent. This also helps him revitalize his own talent and get his life back on track. Frances McDormand also appears as Douglas' love interest who is also the chancellor of the university where he works and is pregnant with his child. Really enjoyable and trippy film, a semi-classic. Hanson once again hit bullseye with this.