As I don’t have much space left, I’d like to take our criticisms in a slightly different direction.

While watching the film I was constantly aware of three specific ways “Huckabees” relates to Macalester. First, both Hoffman and Huppert’s characters bear uncanny resemblances to Macalester Professors. While I won’t reveal their names, Hoffman seems to channel a new age persona (if it could exist) of Macalester’s resident Kantian. Huppert, on the other hand, plays Katerine, whose name and propensity to expose the “dark subjective misery of late capitalism” (to quote Mr. Sawyer) seem eerily similar to Macalester’s postmodern professor par excellence.

On the political front, Macalester could learn something from this two hour theoretical romp. If (not giving too much away) two seemingly diametrically opposed theoretical camps can come to take a collective stance, certainly the political issues confronting our campus should be approached with the desire to reach a compromise arrived at mutually.

And, lastly, on a lighter note, while “Entertainment Weekly” dismissively declares the film “literally full of itself,” anyone who has been on a college campus in the last ten years would, I hope, not react with such ad hominem attacks. If you have taken or taught a course with “theory” in the title (and lord knows we have about 600 of them here) Russell's romp will, if nothing else, allow you to laugh at the serious subjects we tackle each week in our classrooms.