I have read a great deal of Phillip Dick's work and was looking forward to seeing this. Hoo-boy, was THAT a mistake. The audio interviews of Mr. Dick were equalized/engineered so badly as to be unintelligible. The animated character that was shown during the audio interviews of Mr. Dick was at best laughable and at worst disrespectful. Mix the typewriter crap animation (mentioned in other reviews) with the cheesiest synthesizer soundtrack I have ever heard and you have a product that would drive Mother Teresa to walk into an orphanage with a fully loaded street-sweeper and open fire. This pathetic attempt at a documentary is almost criminal. Paraphrasing another reviewer here, it is a shame that one of the greatest writers of the last century gets this kind of treatment. Amen.

As a certifiable "Dick-head," I bought this docu in the hopes it might shed some additional light on one of the greatest purveyors of sci-fi and American literature in general. Dick was a brilliant -- a superlative I seldom use -- man. His stories were fascinating meditations on what constitutes reality, self, etc. Sadly, this docu is a cheapo featuring some nice interviews with Dick friends and fans (could have done without the fans, who while sincere didn't seem that knowledgeable or at the very least interesting).Most distracting -- and reeking of padding -- are the "animated" segments. Truly awful. I assume they were done in Flash, but they are static beyond belief. I speed-scanned through them all.Dick deserves a fine documentary. This isn't it. Read Lawrence Sutin's bio if you seek info on Dick. Or read Paul Williams' interviews with the man. Skip this sorry effort.

Except for choosing the most fascinating subject to "document" (the brilliant author Philip K. Dick), the "filmmakers" of TGATPKD manage to do everything else wrong. This SOV (shot on video) documentary is so devoid of form and style that what little substance remains is not worth muddling through this disaster to see and hear. The location sound is terrible, the videography pedestrian, and worst of all, the pace of the editing is atrocious. These (so called) "filmmakers" let their interviewees go on and on and on and on and on and on, not employing the simplest of editing techniques: crosscutting between interviewees to "edit" what they've said to encapsulate a topic point in sections to build towards a cohesive whole. Surprise-surprise: editing is not just slapping a bunch of footage together. I too could go on and on and on about how abysmal the editing is, but suffice it to say this TGATPKD feels like it was "edited" by a group of public access trainees. The opening credits sequence is super-weak "animation" that goes on forever; but what's worse is that this "animation" continues throughout the "film" as a means to give form to the late author, who was (sound) recorded in a previous interview. And the constant quasi-futuristic background music (I dare not call it a score) that persists from beginning to end is so awful that if it isn't stock library background music (usually used for corporate videos or local cable commercials), then the amateur(s) who wrote and recorded it should be ashamed. THIS "FILM" IS THE REASON WHY I CAN'T CONVINCE MOST OF MY FRIENDS THAT DOCUMENTARIES DON'T ACTUALLY STINK AND AREN'T ALL BORING. TGATPKD is proof that if there is a built-in audience for the subject matter that any given filmmaker (the makers of TGATPKD are certainly not filmmakers -- hacks is more like it) sets out to EXPLOIT, said filmmaker will find a distributor, no matter how bad their "film" is.

PKD is a good subject for a documentary, but this piece is hampered by a lack of visual stimulus, a slow-starting narrative, and especially an overload of silly graphics.The content starts getting intriguing and compelling about half-way through, but it takes some time to get there, a shame, since it seems that there is plenty of material to start off this direction at a much earlier point. In addition to this, there is a sequence of CGI that is repeated again and again, that is painful to watch, but is unrelenting. Although removing it would make this a very short documentary, it is cruel to leave in.All that said, if you're a fan, you might as well watch it, there is plenty of interest, especially if you thought Jason Koornick was a spazz in grade school.