"Death Becomes Her," directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Forrest Gump") was released in 1992. It stars Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis. As you can see by the release date this was a good 12 years before Robert Zemeckis went crazy and started to only make motion capture movies. He used to make such great movies..."Death Becomes Her" is still special effects heavy though, since that is Robert Zemeckis' thing. Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn play Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp. Madeline stole Helen's fiance, Dr. Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis) from her. Madeline and Ernest got married instead. To say the least the two woman's relationship isn't the greatest...Helen would very much like to have Madeline dead. 14 years go by...the movie starts in 1978 and Helen is looking all young and what not and Madeline not so much. As it turns out Helen took some crazy potion years ago that made it so she would stay young forever. Madeline takes the same thing. Both end up getting killed, except not because of the aforementioned potion...they are slightly maimed, and have no heart beats, but are still living. They both find out that trying to kill each other at this point in time is completely futile. That's the general idea. The cast was great in this movie. Meryl Streep can do anything as far as movie roles go. She's proven this about 107 times so far to us. She was very funny in this movie and had great chemistry with Goldie Hawn. This is the first thing I have seen Goldie Hawn in, but I found out that she's a good actress. Bruce Willis still had hair at this point, which is strange. He definitely plays the most uninteresting and weak character in the movie and a couple times screams like a woman...I kid you not...but he does a great job, because he is Bruce Willis and all and is a good counterpart to both Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn. The special effects in this movie are great...they won an Acadmey Award actually...we get to see Goldie Hawn with a giant bullet wound to the chest...still living don't forget and Meryl Streep head twisted around after a pretty bad fall...that would have killed the normal person, among other great uses of special effects. I mind as well mention the score, since I love film scores. It was done by Alan Silvestri and was great and contributed to a dark atmosphere...since this is in fact a dark comedy...A couple parts of the movie were boring and drawn out and the movie is definitely a strange one...I enjoyed it though...then again I enjoy most things that Meryl Streep is in...This movie definitely isn't for everyone. This was also a Youtube viewing experience...just like "She-Devil"...I wouldn't have wanted to spend money on either...but they were fun to watch...and I got a couple good doses of Meryl Streep...-Joseph Sbrilli
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