American Splendor (2003)

Synopsis: It depicts the life and creative process of a comics writer.
Appraisal: Mostly boring and conventional combination of documentary and biopic, that has occasional inserts of comic book graphics (that add nothing important to the film, but hey they are so cool). The leading performance is no more than the imitation of a frown. Every time the real character shows up, one can see that he has nothing to do with his impersonation: the body movement is gone, the soul is gone. Also, any originality that perhaps was present in the cartoons (I say 'perhaps' because I never read them) is gone in the film: as I said earlier, this is conventional stuff by any parameter, and it would be more fit for TV than theaters (except that, as I have already remarked in another review, TV shows are becoming more interesting than theatrical films).
Rating: 45