Batman Alum: Christian Bale After you're able to wrap your head around this cast - Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Steve Carell - and the fact that such a serio-comic look at an economic collapse is directed by Adam McKay (of Anchorman and Step Brothers fame), you might wonder why all of these people came together to tell such a relatively bland, big bummer type of story. All they really wanted to say was this: F*ck the banks that got a bailout after they helped ruin the economy and screwed over millions of homeowners in the process. This is a darkly hilarious look at some very complicated financial maneuvering, but luckily it sprinkles in the more unsavory (and pretty boring) details with silly celebrity cameos while the four leads get weird with it. Parts of the movie will infuriate you, but don't worry, because the team of Gosling, Pitt, Bale, and Carell are there to make sure you can laugh off most of your anger before you leave the theater. Bale is obviously ready to leave the cape and cowl behind and work in something with a little more quirkiness to it, and he's more gleefully eccentric in this role than any since American Psycho.
