That's right. If you like Kate Hudson or Matthew McConaughey, then, please, go watch something else. This is an intellectual piece which relies heavily on satire, mood, atmosphere and metaphor. Also, if you look back on your childhood fondly and have no serious psychological or emotional problems, you won't get this movie. It's not about cannibalism, it's about the monstrosity of parents, of Adultworld, of everything a child finds out about late at night when he stumbles down the hall for a glass of water; the underside of 1950s America; the insipid nature of the sitcom. It's about all of this, and more. And, despite what the previous reviewers had to say, it IS terribly funny. And TERRIBLY funny.
(Sandy Dennis is great, too.)