“Griff the Invisible” has some very funny scenes, although I hesitate to call it a comedy. It may, in fact, be a tragedy. If Griff and Melody are meant for no one except one another, and if in being together they exacerbate their ineptitudes, where does that ultimately leave them? Melody believes that the world needs to grow up as opposed to herself and Griff.

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‘Griff the Invisible’ Is an Oddly Sweet Look At the Heroics Of the Heart

Griff the Invisible is a sweet little Australian nugget that charms in its simplicity.

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On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, “Griff the Invisible” is an original, idiosyncratic 7, a quirky glimpse of imaginative innocence.

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Though the movie sounds perilously twee, “Griff the Invisible” works as a slice of emotional life for the most part because of its lead performances

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The darkly funny Australian charmer "Griff the Invisible" introduces its titular hero to us as nighttime caped crusader first, mild-mannered daytime office drone second.

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The end result is a film that's more effective as a portrait of social misfits in love than as an over-the-top action comedy, yet Griff the Invisible, which certainly has its moments, remains worth a look if only for Kwanten's almost revelatory performance.

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A too-quirky superhero spoof

Griff the Invisible revels too much in quirk, in a quirky-for-its-own-sake attitude. It tries too hard to be eccentric, kooky. So hard, it can be downright annoying.

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Griff the Invisible remains an experimental genre film split down the middle by multiple personalities at odds with the outside world.

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The Melody-Griff evolution is the sweetest part of "Griff the Invisible," and has a certain charm. But anyone looking for a superhero movie is going to be disappointed.

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Fans of Kwanten’s often shirtless swaggering on True Blood will struggle to find any trace of Jason Stackhouse in the shrugging, stammering Griff, and Dermody matches his wide-open vulnerability as the starry-eyed Melody.

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It's a very small film, and Kwanten plays it so internal, so contracted, that fans looking for some of that Jason Stackhouse swagger might be disappointed. But it's nice work, and Maeve Dermody is right on his wavelength, making them a very nice match in the film.

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The little glimpses of everyday magic on offer here are lovely, from a “universe suit” to a porous apartment door, but they're not enough to hang a film or a life on.

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An Australian misfits-in-love story manufactured from whole quirk, Griff the Invisible is more mannerism than movie.

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A deep love of True Blood is the main reason an American might sample Griff the Invisible

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A superhero wannabe fights the forces of loneliness and alienation in this uneven Aussie indie.

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Writer-director Leon Ford wisely declines to make Griff entirely sympathetic - the character's alienation is genuine and has a troubling edge.

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“Griff the Invisible’’ is really a rom-com, and thus depends on sparks flying between the two lovers.

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The movie is stocked with charming visual gags [..] but it’s a rickety ride, choppily edited

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Having declared much of his previous construction inoperative, Ford proceeds with the rom-com portion of the projection and, true to form, he manages to overwork that to the point of weary, drained emptiness.

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This Australian movie, made with subsidies from that country's government, simply should have saved taxpayers the expense in the first place.

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