13 Awesome 2016 Movies Everyone Thought Would Suck
8. Swiss Army Man
Why It Should've Sucked: It's a movie where Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse, and was infamously the most walked-out-of film at this year's Sundance Film Festival. So, another self-consciously quirky indie flick that tries to coast on its sheer weirdness alone? No thanks.
Why It Was Awesome: It will definitely be too oddball for many tastes, especially those who revere Radcliffe mainly for his Harry Potter work, but this drama about a marooned man (Paul Dano) and the animated corpse he finds washed up on the nearby beach (Radcliffe) is a surprisingly sweet, heartfelt look at the prevailing absurdity of the human experience.
Dano and Radcliffe are both excellent here, with Radcliffe in particular completely committed to a challenging, highly unflattering role. Sure, it has fart jokes, but they actually serve something of a narrative purpose, and overall the film is simply much more than what its hipster-baiting premise suggests.