The curious case of Benjamin Button should be a great film. It has spectacular cinematography, rounded full characters, with some fine, if necessarily mannered acting from both Pitt and Blanchett that rounds out the characters, and generally steers just clear of showboating throughout. The concept itself is sky high, and is backed up by some fantastic effects. As anyone unfortunate enough to sit through 10,000 BC knows however, CG does not make or break a movie, and this is one case that adds up to spectacularly less than the sum of its parts.
