Robin\’s second movie, and it\’s not funny. It doesn\’t seek out humor, don\’t need jokes, and it\’s a great look at a few different types of feminism, but man, how did Robin Williams go from \”Popeye\” to \”Garp\” then \”The Survivors\”? Seeing that it\’s based on a book make sense, as this story feels condensed down from a much larger piece of work, and I can only imagine what was cut, as there\’s a ton of stuff in the movie.
Best part is seeing John Lithgow as a woman, played without any kind of wink or nod, just \”hey here\’s a guy that used to play football and is now a woman\”, nearly not explained at all and never with a tongue in it\’s cheek. It\’s a good movie, but covers some heavy subjects and ends in a way that I wasn\’t expecting.