May couldn't seem to make any friends as a little girl so her mom gave her a doll to be her best friend. Forward several years ahead and in present time May is a teenager, still without friends, but still with the doll. She's a strange young lady who works as a veterinarian assistant and manages, through her work, to meet a girl who she becomes friends with. She also meets a boy for whom she falls for, later to realize that she's to strange for the man, and things doesn't seem to work out with her female friend either. After being let down, she decides to create her own best friend, using parts from different people.
Here we got a great story, but it didn't quite work for me as May (Angela Bettis) herself is just way to freaky and creepy. So everything with feeling sorry for her kinda goes down the drain, she's just way too weird.
It's to bad for her that she hasn't got any friends, but the way she acts and talks to people and everything is just too much, so hey no wonder. She actually has no real problems meeting people, it's just the way she handles things after meeting them. She freaks them out, and it's totally understandable why they don't wanna hang out with her anymore.
The acting is very good, nothing to complain about there, but May as a person is just very hard to relate to. Anna Faris from Scary movie shows up as one of May's friends, and she's exactly like in Scary Movie, or The Hot Chick for that matter. No real change in character, but she's still ok here though. It works anyway.
It's a little bit like a modern Frankenstein tale, without the actual science. We get some gore from how she kills people, and it's somewhat ok. Nothing spectacular though, and this is not a movie you would watch for the gore.
The score is horrible I tell you, just truly horrible. There's this "horror music" that pops up once in a while with some childlike humming, and it's just a pain to listen to as it takes away your focus on the movie and instead makes you irritated about what you hear. Truly annoying.
There's some black comedy in the movie as well. Very dark at times and works pretty well every now and then, but a flick like this sure could've had more of that. Other than that, it's an ok story, a bit too tame at times and kinda hard to relate to. Although I think it's worth a watch, but don't feel like you've missed out if you don't get to see it.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2002
DIRECTOR: Lucky McKee
WRITING CREDITS: Lucky McKee
GENRE: Horror, Drama, Thriller, Black Comedy
CAST: Angela Bettis, Anna Faris, Jeremy Sisto
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 93 min
RATING: 5/10
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