Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

Despite what some people may say about this film, this film itself is quite unique, and quite entertaining at that! With its exotic writing, acting, and overall film methods, it definitely in my opinion is worth a watch.

I was going to begin this title with "Surreal", but if you're going to talk about a film that's clearly inspired by Phillip K. Dick's fiction that's kind of redundant. The basic plot bears quite a few points of similarity to one of the author's lesser-known novels, "Ubik"; there's even a major character named "Palmer Eldritch" -- as in Dick's novel "The Three Stigmata of". Which also featured an alien hallucinogen.

So the film isn't shy about acknowledging its antecedents. Along with lots of other influences from all over the place. Whether you'll like it or not probably depends on whether you enjoy that type of story. But seriously: "Worst movie ever"? No way. I really wish reviewers would stop using this as shorthand for "This was confusing/I didn't understand it."

Which is a perfectly valid opinion. I can't claim to have completely understood it, either, after one viewing. But I enjoyed it enough to think this is worth a couple more looks. Yeah, it's got its rough edges, but it also has real heart and creativity.

Whether you like it or not you are unlikely to ever see anything similar. If you liked space cop or kung fury this deserves a look. Its much wierder, at times it's Jodorowski level wierd. I dont even know if i liked it but im glad i watched it.

The world needs more films like this. Its like The Mighty Boosh wanted to produce a sci-fi as a side project, but for some reason they wanted to keep their names out of it. Every criticism that you may have about this being ridiculously cheap and making no sense is everything that makes this film wonderful. I can't be the only person thats sick of knowing everything about a film the second i see the poster or hear the byline. The bigger budget a film has then the more cliches they usually cram in. But this film looks like was made for the price of a lunchtime snack for the main cast. And a small snack at that.

Looking at the other reviews I can see how confusing this film is, as it was meant to be. Viewers have trouble getting the heroes and villains straight and one review cleared up some confusion for me. At one point in the middle my husband turned to me and said, "I wonder what they are going to recommend because we watched this?" It is a challenge to think of other films like it because it throws in so many genres. It isn't that funny, either, because that would make it a parody, which is a genre. While watching it I thought it was incoherent but now I think the filmmakers were very focused and intentional. Some films are stories, some evoke emotion, some are intended to invoke a state of consciousness in their audience. This idea is lifted from the conclusion of Aristophanes' The Frogs. This movie invokes a state of some sort. Whatever that state is, it seems to be shared by the community that made this film.