It's funny how Brian Doyle-Murray's, Mary Kay Place's, and Dabney Coleman's characters all cease to exist in the final scenes of the movie. For crying out loud that's not that big of a house! Where'd they go? Did they get sucked up by the Twilight Zone and disappear? This contributes to the overall eerie and dark mood of the film that glorifies the cruel intentions of Max Fielding, the human toxic avenger! I'm assuming that they eventually got Mark the author down from the ceiling when they cleaned up the house. And Mary Kay Place and Brian Doyle-Murray hopefully recovered from the horrendous ruckus that Dorita (A Haitian woman with an ebonics accent) predicted before the dinner party began. But we don't know that because of Ken Shapiro's sloppy directing and writing as if he didn't give a crap about his characters. Not only that but when Max made Mark levitate during the whole dinner scene I was actually terrified! After all, if Shapiro is mean-spirited enough to cause an innocent ballet dancer's groin to explode, what is he going to do to the designated villain of the movie? What horrible thing is Max going to do to Mark? Something horrendous probably. Does Shapiro have an axe to grind and he's just taking it out on his characters? Strange. Strange. Strange! This movie left me with a bad feeling in my gut. Yuck!
Review of Modern Problems
