Highly Offensive Material

I just saw the spectacularly amazing movie, The Wolf Of Wall Street.  DO NOT GO SEE THIS MOVIE IF:

• you find misogyny to be offensive
• you find excessive cussing to be offensive 
• you find extremely graphic sex to be offensive
• you find nudity to be offensive
• you find dwarf throwing to be offensive
• you find extremely excessive drug use to be offensive
• you find glorification of exceedingly poor behaviors to be offensive
• you find any previous Martin Scorcese movie to be offensive

Seriously, the topic and the glorification of the characters is reprehensible.  HOWEVER, IF:

• you want to see some of the best physical acting Leonardo DiCaprio has ever done
• you want to see Kyle Chandler take on Leonardo DiCaprio and hold his own, brilliantly
• you want to see an unexpected character portrayal by Rob Reiner
• you want to see some really (I mean REALLY) dark humor
• you want to see some fantastic work by Noah Hill (with some truly crazy teeth caps)
• you want to see a scene that could be straight out of Diner (very funny)
• you want to see some great ensemble work from the entire cast (male, of course... the female cast is given exactly the same work they've been given in the generic Scorcese film)
• you want to hear the words that will be used in hard sales training for the next 10 years (to replace, or augment the 'set of steak knives' scene from Glengary Glen Ross)
• you want to hear some spectacular music cues, many of which are laugh out loud funny
• you want to see a fantastically well crafted film that was fully watchable for every one of the 180 minutes 

So, I gave it two very enthusiastic thumbs up. And, the big concern I had going into it, that the third act would be a downward spiral into retribution and horror (like every other movie of this ilk: Good Fellas, Boogie Nights, etc.) but instead, it just got darker and funnier.  I think this movie feeds into my cynicism and dark humor, which made me enjoy it immensely.

Be happy and healthy!