He embraces factory life with unnerving enthusiasm, dissembles to his kindly psychiatrist, Dr. Satrapi best sustains the tension in the first half-hour, as her camera follows Jerry through a game of existential hopscotch. Whiskers’s erotic excitement over big cats tearing apart prey on a National Geographic TV show. In this film, though, the talking-critter gags are funny, especially Mr. Whiskers, the archetypal loner cat, as well as slobbering and butt-sniffing from Bosco, the archetypal owner-loving dog. Reynolds contributed an uncredited cameo to Seth MacFarlane’s talking-teddy-bear smash Ted (12), and The Voices contains onslaughts of Ted-like sexual wisecracks from Mr.
Whiskers and a deep, consoling Southern bass for Bosco. Reynolds provides their voices, too-an abrasive Scottish burr for Mr. He drives home to an isolated apartment above a defunct bowling alley and converses with two talking pets: Mr. Reynolds embodies this functioning schizophrenic so naturally, you believe that people around Jerry think he’s one weird go-getter, not a psycho focused on visions they can’t see. Except for a couple of impressionable gals in the accounting department who flutter at his cuteness, his co-workers consider him awkward and eccentrically upbeat, like a walking smiley face. Is his super-amiability just a put-on? Or is he simply ultra-pleased to be employed in the packing and shipping department of Milton Fixture and Faucet? Only his boss knows that he sees a government-appointed shrink. The Voices starts out as a classic seriocomic tale about the “new guy” on the job. Like him, they work at a modest tub factory in an ailing North American small town.
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In Satrapi’s sporadically engaging mix of psycho-thriller and splatter comedy, Reynolds exacts a full measure of empathy for Jerry Hickfang, a cheery rube who inflicts terrible punishment on a string of unsuspecting ladies. He’s nonpareil at suggesting a spiky sensibility under the affable veneer of a romantic lead or the athletic poise of an action hero. This perennially underrated actor has one extraordinary specialty.
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It’s no surprise that Ryan Reynolds is splendid and unsettling as a wholesome-looking serial killer in Marjane Satrapi’s The Voices.
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