What is this movie about?
I've watched it for the third time in about 20 years, and I still can't figure out any point or purpose to it. While the characters are ridiculous enough to make it watchable, what is the theme? What's the point? How can you have a movie about nothing? A movie doesn't have to have a grand good-vs-evil theme, but a theme nonetheless is necessary! I suspect this movie uses a lot of cunning and highly skilful tricks to make you keep watching and forget that it's really just super-mundane tosh.
One idea I had, was that the movie falls because the plot centers around some very ordinary and average people flaunting their rather pedestrian 'great expectations', living by the old 'fake it till you make it' adage, but failing to exhibit any extraordinary qualities that raise them above the lowest common denominator average man or woman.