[Roybert]

I loved the movie. Def one of my top-5.

I loved the whole thing, frogs and all. To me, the frogs were an essential part of the movie. The movie, up until the end, is basically a melodrama ... You have these people whose lives (at least in their own minds) are spiraling out of control. To their way of thinking, everything bad in the world is happening to them, and everything that is happening is bad. It makes them remarkably self-centered; they can only think about how messed up they are and how wrong it is that they are because they thought they had it all figured out. The madness crescendos in an amazing 15 (or so) minute stretch culminating with Robards death, Moore's suicide (attempt), Jimmy Gator's admission and suicide (attempt), Cruise coming to grips with all that has happened to him over the last few hours, Macy's f'd up burglery, the kid's bladder problems etc, etc.

Then it rains frogs.

And they all have this stark, ice-water-to-the-face reality that it isn't all about them. It took something so ridiculous, so improbable (but certainly possible) to show them that EVERYTHING is possible.

Then it's the next morning. They all look dazed and confused and almost hung over. They're left to wonder wtf happened, and in the process they realize that the Sun doesn't rise or set around any of them and they are all left feeling kind of ridiculous for getting so lost in life's mundane insanities that for the first time they realize their own stupity and limitations.

That's what I got out of it, anyways.