What About Bob?

Entering the comedy genre, What About Bob? set the right tone for what a comedy movie should have, quality wise. The film is almost a dark comedy, but in other aspects it's lighthearted. The story line follows successful psychologist Dr. Lee Marvin, and his OCD, eccentric, wonderfully strange patient: Bob Wiley. Wiley becomes extremely attached to to Dr. Marvin and his family, following them on a family vacation. This causes Dr. Marvin to become extremely aggravated with Bob, to the point of insanity. His family on the other hand, is delighted by him. The plot has a "reverse psychology" outline where the doctor becomes the patient, and the patient becomes the doctor. The film is undeniably funny, but has "that" type of humor that only certain types of people would find humorous. In one viewers perspective it pokes fun at very eccentric (maybe even a bit dim) people, while others might see it as making fun of the mentally insane. Further into the plot, it appears that the story makes fun of more uptight, orderly, boring people, and glorifies those are a bit crazy and spontaneous. One of the ongoing themes throughout the whole movie is: clarity is madness. In the beginning, that theme didn't fit the movie at all, but as the movie rolls along, the movie "becomes it". I wouldn't recommend this movie to everyone, but personally I rather enjoyed and would watch it again.