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Anne Hathaway As A 'Colossal' Trainwreck Who Wreaks Monster-Movie Havoc

A binge-drinking American woman unwittingly controls a monster that's destroying Seoul in this tone-deaf comedy; the film's lumbering attempts to subvert our rom-com expectations fall flat.
Where There's Smoke, There's Kaiju: Gloria (Anne Hathaway) and Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) look pensive in <em>Colossal</em>.

Take my alcoholic girlfriend... please. begins as a variation on the musty Henny Youngman line, crossed with a self-consciously wacky riff on the genre known in Japanese as ("big strange beast"). But the premise can't sustain a nearly two-hour movie, so writer-director Nacho Vigalondo adds more twists, designed not only to keep the plot moving but also to

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