Konterr Brilliant and touching

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Holzo This is the only film I've been unable sit through at the cinema. It was so hammy, cheap and amateurish that 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. It is still a longstanding joke between us that he chose the worst film either of us have ever seen. Of course, there is a chance the film got significantly better after that point, but the ground it would have had to make up is so substantial as to make that inconceivable.Shame to be so harsh, I've enjoyed Herzog films in the past. I did however join this site with the specific purpose of reviewing this terrible film.

Michael_Elliott Wild Blue Yonder, The (2005) ** (out of 4) An alien planet starts to die so their inhabitants head off to find life in another universe. Their ships eventually land on Earth and years later one of the surviving aliens (Brad Dourif) recalls their journey. This is an extremely bizarre science-fiction film but would you really expect anything less from Herzog? I wouldn't call this a bad film but at the same time I couldn't call it a good film either so I'm somewhere down the middle on it. I think it has a brilliant idea and for the most part the idea is created very well but in the end I couldn't help but feel this would have worked better as a forty-minute film instead of a feature length (even though it still only runs 75-minutes). The visual look of the film is quite impressive with various stock footage used to tell the story. The Antarctica footage, which Herzog would later use in his documentary Encounters of the End of the World, makes for a unique "frozen sky" of outer space. The underwater scenes are going to be alien just about to everyone watching the film so to use this as another alien outpost (outer space) was a very good idea. Dourif has gathered some heat for his performance but I'm sure it's exactly what the director wanted and overall I thought it was fine. It's certainly out there but any alien encounter would probably fit the term out there.

bertseymour7 I respect Herzog and like how he goes in strange directions, but with that sometimes he wanders down the wrong path, or maybe wrong isn't the word. He sometimes wanders down a boring path. Somehow Herzog got his hands on some space footage and some antarctic underwater footage and thought he could compose that into a sci fi movie.This is of course a visually distinctive journey and a must for all die hard Herzog fans, but I felt it was a bit too strange and far out. Brad Dourif plays an alien on earth who says he sucks at what he does or something along those lines, which is kind of funny.Maybe you have to be in the right atmosphere to enjoy this journey, but if you are only going to see one Herzog film, don't make it this one.

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.