Film Review – Sweet Dreams

As an actor, Johnny Knoxville hasn’t really achieved much in the way of professional respect. He’s been in a lot of T.V. shows and movies, but he’ll be forever known as the star of “Jackass,” with some of his best acting coming from opportunities to sell the questionable danger of certain pranks. Knoxville finds a meatier role in “Sweet Dreams,” which is a blend of an underdog sports comedy and a study of sober living challenges. Writer/director Lije Sarki doesn’t have grand plans for the picture, electing to work with smaller emotional moments and softball action, gathering a cast of comedians to help find the humor in just about anything. There’s little dramatic muscle to “Sweet Dreams,” but it does provide a few clear-eyed moments of reflection from what’s possibly some type of autobiographical point of view, and Knoxville nails select scenes of confession, showing range and realism in his best performance to date. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com