Willkommen in Wellville (1994)

Willkommen in Wellville: Directed by Alan Parker. With Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack. A story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.

“I canu0026#39;t believe some of the reviews Iu0026#39;ve read on this site about The Road to Wellville. Some people complain that it was crude and disgusting, others complain that it didnu0026#39;t have a coherent plot, and still others whine that it wasnu0026#39;t historically accurate (concerning Dr. Kelloggu0026#39;s methods). Those reviewers clearly missed the boat. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs for those who thought the movie was crude and disgusting, what did you expect from a comedy set in a turn-of-the-century health sanitorium run by a well meaning but eccentric doctor? Such a movie is bound to contain scenes of patients vomiting, getting enemas, and having a sexual tryst or two, just as undoubtedly occurred in many health sanitoriums at that time. Furthermore, none of those scenes were graphic, so I donu0026#39;t understand anybody being offended by them. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs for complaints that the movie didnu0026#39;t have a coherent plot, it didnu0026#39;t need one. It was a comedy, not a drama! The health sanitorium setting was a perfect vehicle for satirizing turn-of-the-century attitudes about health, and it was the dialogue and comedic situations that held the movie together and kept it moving, not its plot. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFinally, for those who complain that the movie wasnu0026#39;t historically accurate about Dr. Kelloggu0026#39;s actual methods (such as his characteru0026#39;s use of electric-powered machines for health therapy), the movie was a comedy, not a biography! It was meant to elicit laughs, and in that respect it was a smashing success. I havenu0026#39;t laughed so much during a movie in a long time. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSome people should take Sargeant Hulkau0026#39;s (u0026quot;Stripesu0026quot;) advice and u0026quot;lighten up.u0026quot; Good comedy is not dependent on plot or historical accuracy to be entertaining; all that matters is that itu0026#39;s funny, and Wellville was one of the funniest comedies Iu0026#39;ve ever seen.”