'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' Earns Incredible 100% On Rotten Tomatoes for Being a Film Starring Nicolas Cage Playing Nicolas Cage Poking Fun at Nicolas Cage (Wait, What?)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the new Nicolas Cage film, just recieved a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Nicolas Cage is in every movie, from the worst to the best. His invovlement in LITERALLY everything has been made note of and poked fun at by various sit-coms and sketches. Andy Samberg had a recurring Weekend Update segement in which he played Nicolas Cage and declared that he should be in every movie.
Similarly, there was an entire Community storyline wherein Abed goes crazy trying to scientifically determine whether Nicolas Cage is a good actor or a bad actor. Due to the widespread, all encompasing nature of his films, the overpowering, self-contradicting nature of the data drives Abed LITERALLY insane.
However, there is no question when it comes to Cage's newest film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. According to an article on The Hollywood Reporter, the film recieved an incredibly rare honor: 100% approval rate on Rotten Tomatoes. Fresh after the premiere of this meta film during SXSW wherein Nicolas Cage plays himself, critics have begun to rave about the magnifecent movie and unquestionable talent of the star.
It is currently the number one film of all of the 170 films Cage has on the site. A Variety review called the film, "A commercial comedy that has a delirious good time poking fun at Nicolas Cage, celebrating everything that makes him Nicolas Cage - and, in the end, actually becoming a Nicolas Cage movie, which turns out to be both a cheesy thing and a special thing."
A top rated film in which Nicolas Cage gives a stellar performance as Nicolas Cage making fun of Nicolas Cage in an artful and critically acclaimed way? Sign us up!
