Review of Short Order

If this film has a thread it is Moby Dick, which is sometimes drawn out in a heavy handed fashion, and at other just opaque. Add to that lots and lots allusions to other films, all the way from Eating Raul to Singing in the Rain, plus tedious philosophic soliloquies, and you have a romp of sorts through sex and food, culminating of course, in cannibalism. The principal characters were not engaging nor fleshed out in any compelling way. Their progress though the film is meandering at best, with the action broken by tasteless commentary on food, sex and women, by chefs who we are asked to believe are being interviewed by for a new program or documentary. I am astonished that it has received such positive reviews