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.

I just watched Werner Herzog's 2005 science fiction fantasy film The Wild Blue Yonder, and am left in that rare position of not having much to say of the film that could really change the opinion of a viewer, pro or con, toward it. This is not because it is good nor bad, simply because it is one of those works of art that is not even on a good/bad scale. It is beyond such reckoning, a purely aural and visual experience for most of its 81 minutes, and thus has an effect similar to the phantasmagoric end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.The narrative, however slight, is this: the alien (Dourif) comes to earth some decades ago, in a Third Wave of colonizers, before the supposed 1947 Roswell UFO crash, because his home planet entered an Ice Age. Upon landing, they attempted to establish their own version of Washington, D.C. out in the California desert, thus justifying Dourif's rants out in a ghost town. Their failure leads him to the conclusion that all aliens suck- a point he repeatedly hammers home. It also lets him go on about how mankind has ecologically ravaged the earth. He speaks of his CIA involvement, and more found footage, of the Jovian Galileo mission, allows him to hypothesize on the Roswell matter. Then he claims that the aliens brought with them microbial diseases. NASA launches a space mission to find inhabitable planets, but none are found in the Milky Way, until, via silly mathematics, a gateway to the Andromeda galaxy is found- one even the aliens did not know of. As the earth is getting more and more uninhabitable humans, who shortcutted their way to the alien Andromedan world, decide to explore it. Cue the Antarctic ice footage, meant to portray the frozen atmosphere and liquid helium ocean of The Wild Blue Yonder. While intensely beautiful and hypnotically mixed with the oral sounds of a bunch of Sardinian singers and an African singer, the film becomes really indescribable- but not in that good nor bad way. You just have to watch, whether you like or dislike it. When it's done, we see that the humans have returned to earth, aged only 15 years (comparisons of the archival footage vs. that Herzog shot for interviews) while the earth went through 820 years, and reverted to a wild state. Humans left the earth, and now treat it as a planetary game preserve. In the audio commentary, Herzog reveals that shots of the high green plateau that ends the film were from Venezuela, part of the leftover footage from his earlier film The White Diamond.This film will doubtlessly bore many people, and it will turn off still others for a plenum of possible reasons, and in no way, shape, nor form, is this a masterpiece on par with the best in Herzog's oeuvre. But, even if one views it in the worst way, and calls it a daring failure, it is a film worth watching again. One day soon, I will.

I'm not sure at all what this is. Maybe that's a good thing. Director Werner Herzog calls it "a science fiction fantasy", but that doesn't say much. Using existing footage from space (from the 1989 Atlantis mission STS-34) and Antarctica (by Henry Kaiser) as well as about 15 minutes of his own footage, Herzog creates a faux narrative revolving around an alien in human shape (Brad Dourif) looking almost, but not entirely unlike a Steve Ballmer/Karl Lagerfeld crossbreed. We are led to believe he stranded on earth as a refugee from the Andromeda galaxy, while shuttle astronauts are exploring his native world as a potential human habitat. The local wildlife (mostly jellyfish) apparently speaks Swahili (or something), while back on earth madcap NASA scientists fantasize about shopping malls in space. It's at least as far-fetched as it sounds, but not without humorous touches. I especially liked the alien's synopsis of 20th century Terran history: WWI, WWII, Marylin Monroe, Elvis Presley. Sums it up pretty nicely I think.

This 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.It is the laziest piece of movie non-art I've seen in quite some time... maybe ever. Dross, crap, worthless nonsense. I feel awful after watching it. How can people get away with this?We are required, in this commenting system, to write ten whole lines of text in order for the comment to get accepted. So, we have to find a way of elaborating on that which is without content or substance or quality. This is not easy, how far can you stretch the idea that something is simply crap?Why should we be required to exert effort in critiquing that which involved NO EFFORT? Not only were there no original scenes filmed besides the narrator, 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.