Reviews

in a word, disembowelment. i watched this a long time ago. i just watched the royal tannenbaums and it brought up bad memories. let me share them with you.

but first, on the upside, the art style is great but the animation is limited for the most part.

but thats about as up as it gets. its okay for the first 20 minutes, but the characters end up spending the rest of the "series" spewing monologues about how depressed they are and how messed up the world is. every now and then the maxx trips out and plays tarzan in his day dream world, but its only a rare escape. he quickly returns to reality and most likely clips someones toenails while they, again, whine about how bad everything is.

after they introduced the fourth character, some whiny and depressed goth kid(go figure) or maybe it was when the chick engaged in pseudo intellectual combat with the villain, i ejected the cassette from the VHS player and promptly broke it across my knee. justice had been served and i slept well.

Well if your reading this your either bored, deciding on whether or not to watch it or just trying to get some perspective. So lemme' clear the air.

First off, this is a sci-fi movie in the way the smith/goldbloom blockbuster "independance day" is. In other words its not a sci-fi movie but more of a fantasy action drama. You could even consider it a kind of cop chase movie crammed with ample techno-psycho babble. But I don't think those genres are quite fitting. I personally deem it a sorta pulpy/campy flick and possibly a soon to be cult classic. That said, don't compare it to "independence day". Think more along the lines of kubrik's "dr. strange love or how i..." Who will like this movie? Well studied and open minded ufo nerds, people who laugh at things that ain't meant to be funny, film students and of course stoners. Who will hate it? People who read the book first, people who like any vin deisel movie or magnolia, film critics and of course stoners. Whats the straight dope? Its very well shot, but its pock marked with terrible and often confusing dialog. It has constant trouble pacing the scenes but the action bits seem way too cool. As a pluss the actors give a serious tour deforce and make sure to keep an eye out for Charlton Heston. By far, the most grooved out aspect is wondering how much of todays media was inspired by this movie.

The best- an astronaut spontaneously stealing a car. The worst- the first 10 minutes. The line to know- "Airplanes crash every day."