This film made me embarrassed to be an american most of the

"comedy" was based on the hilarious premise "Why do these idiot

Japanese persist in speaking their own language in their own

country in spite of how much attitude they might get from Bill

Murray as Bill Murray playing Bill Murray [oh yeah what an

"amazing" performance. how does he do it!? genius!!!] , don't they

'get it'???" This film was not funny-the audience was "tittering" very

smarmily not actually laughing, in the packed house I saw it in last

night-it just made me hate Bill Murray and really despise Sofia

Coppola. The whole sense of the film is summed up in the

exchange in which Charlotte explains that Evelyn Waugh is a man

and not a woman, "I went to Yale and am too good for this

confederacy of dunces, so audience are you with me or against

me?" This was like Woody Allen at his most archly snobbish

without any of the laughs. Who cares about these rich spoiled

brats who feel sorry for themselves and look down on everyone

around them? Who cares if Bill Murray gets pickle hole action with

the Lolita? And by the way I went to Yale myself so there!