Movie Review: "Great Gatsby"

THE WASHINGTON POST 
By Anne Hornady

HOLLYWOOD---“It’s like an amusement park.” That’s Nick Carraway, the wide-eyed, ever-present narrator of “The Great Gatsby,” describing one of the legendary parties thrown by the movie’s fabulously wealthy and elusive title character. But Carraway could just as easily be referring to the very movie he finds himself in, a hyper-real, hyper-active, hyperbolic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel that spares no flower, flapper or fringe in bringing Jazz Age decadence to throbbing life. By no means is “The Great Gatsby” a disaster: But neither is it necessary. [link]