Colossal

Colossal

Poster for Colossal

Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway leads the latest from filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes, Open Windows) as an unemployed woman who, for some reason, can remotely control a giant monster that's tearing up South Korea. Co-stars Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses). More

Gloria (Hathaway) is an out-of-work girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realisation that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.

Less

81 ^%Rotten
tomatoes®
9 reviews
Directed by Nacho Vigalondo

2016Rating: M, Violence & offensive language109 minsCanada, Spain

ActionScience FictionThriller

Director:: Nacho Vigalondo ('Timecrimes', 'Open Windows', 'Extraterrestrial')
Writer:: Nacho Vigalondo
Cast:: Anne HathawayJason SudeikisTim Blake NelsonDan StevensAustin StowellAgam DarshiHannah CheramyRukiya Bernard

Streaming (5 Providers)

Reckon we have something wrong? Let us know.

Colossal | Reviews

81%264 reviews

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

All reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

Flicks, Steve Newall

Weaving together unlikely subject matter, the Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis-led Colossal is perhaps the most audacious effort yet from writer/director Nacho Vigalondo - which says something off the back of time travel, alien, and online voyeurism pics. Principally, it’s a film about Gloria (Hathaway), a woman returning to her small American hometown and confronting her unhealthy relationships with men and booze. And then, half a world away, there’s also an enormous monster terrorising Seoul - somehow linked to Gloria and her actions.

Village Voice

Engaging ideas bubble up every so often in Colossal, a film that carries out magical thinking to its extreme. But the audacity of its conceit is inexorably tamed, becoming an all-too-familiar lesson on saying no.

Variety

Seems made for satirical treatment yet is executed with an increasingly awkward semi-seriousness the characters aren’t depthed (or likable) enough to ballast.

Time Out

For better and worse, you won't have seen a movie like Colossal before, and you won't again. And that, in itself, is a strong recommendation.

The New York Times

"Colossal" ... wrings a great deal of fun - and also some genuine terror, by no means all of it monster-related - from its blithely bizarre conceit.

The Guardian

Given the bizarro conceit, there’s something surprisingly, and frustratingly, safe about the film.

Stuff

In my notebook I've scrawled "this would make a great Spike Jonze short film". Which sounds about right.

New Zealand Herald

An odd film that may feel disorienting to some, but it's also a totally original conceit that dares to tackle a little thing in a gigantic way.

Hollywood Reporter

The cast's likability keeps us on board, watching the sometimes baffling behavior onscreen...

FilmInk

This is what would happen if Pacific Rim and When Harry Met Sally had a baby, and it’s freaking awesome.

Colossal | Trailers

Trailer

Trailer

Teaser

Teaser

Colossal | Release Details

Colossal is available to stream in New Zealand now on Netflix and Google Play and Apple TV and Neon and Shudder.