I wish I enjoyed this one more than I did. It has a good cast and some funny moments but I just really struggled to get into the plot and was really losing interest by the end.

This is a quirky exploration of life's big questions, where Jason Schwartzman’s intense search for meaning collides with absurdity. The existential detectives, played by Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman, bring a hilariously unorthodox approach to solving life's mysteries. Mark Wahlberg's performance as Tommy Corn is ridiculously funny… one of his best. The movie's themes of existentialism and the interconnectedness of everything are explored with humor and wit, and Lily Tomlin's deadpan delivery is a highlight. With its eccentric cast, dark humor, and unconventional storytelling, this movie is an entertaining unique watch.

Finding their business card by happenstance, an insecure environmental activist/poet contracts a pair of so-called “existential detectives” to help straighten out his life. As they snoop and pry into every aspect of his daily routine (_especially_ the bathroom), he falls in with another, unhappier client and contacts a competing agency; the philosophical yin to their yang. Where the first duo preaches unity and harmony, albeit in nonsensical, tripped-out ways, their competition embraces lust and nihilism. From there, a spiritual tug-of-war ensues and the whole bustling train car jumps the rails. Effectively a cynical satire of modern life - a laughing send-up of all the lies we tell, contradictions we overlook and boxes we use for self-imprisonment - _I ♥ Huckabees_ is clever, funny, observant and confidently weird. It’s also, primarily, a string of skits in which committed actors gladly project their heads into the clouds and spout all sorts of spacey mumbo-jumbo with stoic conviction. We’re all a part of the same blanket, you see, but that much won’t be obvious until I zip you up in this body bag and let all the demons come out to play. Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are ideal castings in the detectives’ roles, characters with an expert blend of professorial certainty and air-headed inattention that cast their bait, hook their fish and then forget they’re holding a rod. It doesn’t hurt that they’re old enough to be realistically living through the longest shared acid dream in human history. They’re two bundles of fun together, which is especially remarkable considering Tomlin’s documented on-set screaming match with director David O. Russell. The plot skips and jumps, though, chasing stray threads with the enthusiasm of a house cat and then nonchalantly abandoning them on the living room floor. Which, come to think of it, is also like a house cat. We probably follow two dozen subplots, and only two or three approach any sort of a resolution. Just as we think we’re getting a grasp on where this ship is headed, the captain spins the wheel and we jolt off in a new direction. At least the humor works. Dense layers of irony and absurdity are lathered, a wicked combination which results in some real gut-busters (the dinner table argument is a riot), but those laughs aren’t as constant as they need to be. _Huckabees_ is certainly its own thing - it’s been twenty years now, and I’ve seen nothing else like it - but that blade cuts both ways. Sharp and hilarious at the best of times, but hopelessly unfocused at the worst.