Joolz40 If you can recall the worst movie you've ever seen and multiply that by a large number, you will a get a sense of how bad this is. What made this movie tolerable was reading the comments by the people, who like myself hated it. Some of them were so funny and entertaining I ended up reading all the negative reviews while the "movie" was playing in the background as a split screen window. I could feel my brain cells dying about 10 mins into this movie, before I realised that I HAD to do something else while watching this movie to avoid possible long term brain damage.So dear friends and critics, I thought Id make this review a little different and compile a list of my favourite negative reviews for this movie, which are certainly far more entertaining than the movie itself. Enjoy ! "the story had no consistency, plausibility, character, insight, or intelligence of any sort. It was like someone farting in your face and expecting you to think it was life-enhancing." LOL"Add to that, an utterly annoying soundtrack of Nazi-era German soprano/opera, and some tribal folk music - all mixed at levels that make you cringe - and you have a recipe for agony." OUCH"So to summarize; Take about bunch of stock footage off the internet, edit it together in no particular order, add some exerts of interviews with some NASA eggheads that you found on Discovery, slap on the most annoying music you can find, and then hire an actor to narrate a "space story", which has nothing to do with the images or footage that you are seeing - and then you'll have this movie." SPOT ON !"I struggled to restrain myself from laughing at how absurdly bad it was. My companion and I then joined the steady stream of escapees about 40minutes in." LOL" But I'm sorry to say I don't do drugs of drink copious amounts of alcohol. So I must obviously be unable to hallucinate in seeing any merit in this film " HEAR HEAR" I technically wouldn't even call it a movie. It also isn't a documentary. It is one of a kind, a very very bad kind." LOL , YES INDEED A VERY VERY VERY BAD KINDWhy should we be required to exert effort in critiquing that which involved NO EFFORT? GOOD POINThis is a desperately poor, indulgent, cheap, empty, irritating, unwatchable concoction of clips tied together with an infantile plot and dressed up with some ethnic chanting intended to make it seem meaningful and spiritual or something. APT and TO THE POINTThese entertaining reviews helped preserved my sanity while watching. ( sorry I meant enduring) this movie and I hope they will help preserve yours too.

tieman64 "I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as generally accepted, 'don't try to fly too high', or whether it might also be thought of as, 'forget the wax and feathers and do a better job on the wings'." – Stanley Kubrick"We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it." – Bob DylanIn hindsight, it makes sense that Warner Herzog would increasingly gravitate toward science fiction. The German director has always styled himself as a romantic adventurer, conquering mountains, jungles and deserts with compass and camera. With Earth explored he then moved toward documentaries, in which he typically followed explorers, astronauts, pilots and scientists, all of whom shared his longing for further expanding man's frontiers.Ironically, the impossibility of this expansion is what two of Herzog's later documentaries, "Encounters at the End of the World" and "The Wild Blue Yonder", are covertly about. The latter film consists of recontextualized documentary footage - taken largely from NASA space missions - which is spliced together with an extended monologue by actor Brad Dourif. Dourif plays a cranky extraterrestrial, and his monologue offers a thinly disguised story about the rise and fall of the human Empire.So here we have the tale of a species who evolves outward from a water planet, survives an ice age, and then develops language. This acquisition of language becomes man's tragedy, barring him from his "natural state", tearing him from the contentment of a prelapsarian existence, and trapping him in a never-ending race to latch on to the imaginary, unattainable wholeness of desire. On and on man thus travels, repeatedly forming communities, and watching as they all rise and fall. The species then stagnates for a while, becoming filthy, all consuming pigs, before catching the disease of "hope and innovation" from the great men of yesterday. Man then takes to the stars, before quickly finding himself lost in space. Space is too vast and all is chaos, he mourns, realisations which cause the species to stall yet again. Trapped in a postmodern funk, man repeats history over and over again, until he learns not to resist chaos but to see its shapes and patterns, be responsive to its wild undulations and harness its untamed cosmic highways. Onwards humanity now surges, conquering new territories and planets, building new futures beneath its feet and then...erects a intergalactic shopping mall. All this for nothing, Herzog sighs. Dourif's cranky alien throws up his hands in despair. Back home, Earth has become a museum; a testimony, pristine and majestic, to both a grandeur and divinity our species hopes to capture and hold within itself."The Wild Blue Yonder" has been marketed as a documentary, but like most of Herzog's supposed "documentaries", it's a wholly fictional film, concerned with themes which Herzog has mulled over throughout his career. It's the weakest of Herzog's later science fiction "documentaries", but interesting enough for its wild, improvisational style. Herzog appropriates material from everywhere, co-opting stock footage, images and interviews, distorting everything he gets his hands on for his own madcap purposes.8/10 – Worth one viewing. See "Encounters at the End of the World" and "The White Diamond".

hollishanover What the? This astoundingly painful patchwork of filched free footage, oddball tribal music and an old dude with a ponytail portraying an exotic alien from Andromeda (which, by the way, is a galaxy with 100 billion stars, not an ice bound planet with jellyfish), has been greeted with mega gushes from smitten Herzog fans who diligently seek meaning where there is none. As the title of this review would suggest, I, and a very few others it seems, can see the old boy's bum.The plot has been recounted many times in these reviews, so I will just hit the lowlights. Earthlings and Andromedans (perhaps they should call us Milky Wayans) switch planets because of mutually uninhabitable conditions at home. Doesn't sound too bad yet. Wait. The Earth people apparently make the two and one half million light year trip in a small earth orbiter from the late eighties utilizing an exotic technology announced by a smart looking guy standing in an orange grove. The uninhabitable nature of Earth is difficult to discern because of the traffic filled interstates in the background of one of the Andromedan's soliloquies.Environmental consciousness abounds - for instance, film is preserved by using the same wistful shot of the alien but using different voice-overs on at least two occasions. Set expense is minimized by using a trailer junkyard and a ... something with columns perched on dirt. Script pages were saved by having insufferable lengths of time showing five or six people (the Earth contingent, I presume) floating in the space capsule and the same amounts of time consumed by other scenes of scuba divers and jellyfish. The musical score is a sort of eerie wailing which I contend was recorded by holding a microphone over the audience at the premier.Hunter Thompson might have liked this picture, providing he was properly medicated. I didn't. If you want to see space journeys made in unlikely conveyances, I recommend The American Astronaut in which yokels from Oklahoma travel in space in a barn.

dbborroughs Werner Herzog's science fantasy about a trip to a far off planet. The plot concerns an alien played by Brad Dourif, who has come to this world from Andromeda when his world begins to die. He out lines the story of his time on earth and of our trip to his far off world. Consisting of new footage by Herzog the film also contains a great deal of footage from a space shuttle mission as well as images from under the Antarctic ice. Its a strangely hypnotic film thats often a head trip as we are forced to look at our own world as something, somewhere than what it is. This is a heady mix of facts and fictions mixed with beautiful images set to some intriguing vocal and cello music (think Tibetan throat songs) . For much of the film the mix works as we begin to see believe that the aliens are here and that we sent a mission that went there. The problem with the film is that there are long passages, particularly with the space shuttle stuff where its nothing but image and singing. It would be fine if there was a change of image but Herzog holds the images, say of an astronaut jogging, much too long. I don't why he felt the need to use all of the footage that was shot of some subjects. It will drive you to the point of slumber. Which isn't to say the film is bad. Its not. the dialog, well monologue is very witty and contains some great quotes. It also presents a few facts, about distance and our ability to bridge it that is wickedly disheartening for people looking to jump in a ship one day and travel far away, while at the same time opening you up to the possibility of actually doing it. Ultimately this is a movie that you will think about for a long time after you see it.