Great campaing mode. Movie making lacking.
The tycoon part is quite rich. Everything seems to influence how your movies turn out, and being able to increase stats and talents of my actors appeals to my RPG loving nature. The interactions and effects of what you are doing are intuative and obvious, but difficult to master. You can't just make a star good at everything, and are forced to make decisions or limit their career to specific genres to get the best out of them.
The movie making part was a real let down. I thought I was going to be able to make masterpieces with this thing, and send them to my friends for a good laugh. Turns out that it's greatest strength (it's ease of use and speed at producing movies) is also the biggest downfall. The game is too limited in it's interactions and you find yourself changing your script too often because the game simply cannot accomodate what you want to do. For example, two guys walk into a bar. I want them to start talking, and then have a fight. But after they walk in, I don't have an option to move them from where they end up in the first scene to the start of where the next scene shoots. You can't have a fight anywhere - it must be wherever Lionhead decided the best place for it to be was. So what you end up with is two guys walking up to the bar, and in the next shot they are fighting in the middle of the room. How did they get there? Who knows!
Anyway, overall it's a bit of a laugh and I have still churned out some funny stuff to amuse my friends. The single player campaign mode is holding my interest the most at the moment though.