The Wild Blue Yonder
Subversive Cinema | Release Date: October 27, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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80
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
Herzog's strangely beautiful film has marvelous music and hypnotic imagery. A documentary for stoners and people who are that way naturally, it is a cautionary tale for wishful thinkers. Read full review
80
VarietyLeslie Felperin
Should stand with the likes of "Fata Morgana" and "Lessons of Darkness" as one of helmer's best efforts at smudging the lines between docu and fiction. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Not a major Herzog work or one that will draw a large audience, but a must-see for those who suspect (as I do) that he's one of the greatest talents now working in this medium. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
There is pleasure in such useless beauty, of course, and pleasure too in drifting with the jellyfish amid the wild blue yonder of a great filmmaker’s imagination. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Werner Herzog's self-proclaimed "science-fiction fantasy" is a meticulously constructed fiction made from a combination of real-life footage repurposed in ways a conventional documentarian couldn't imagine. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The Wild Blue Yonder has a small message to deliver about the importance of ecological conservation, but mostly, it's an excuse to cut together mesmerizing undersea and outer-space photography while a hypnotic soundtrack drones on. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A meandering, amusing trifle, Werner Herzog's latest film is as cheekily flaky as his recent "Grizzly Man" was sharply down-to-earth. Read full review
60
Village VoiceEd Halter
Though occasionally striking, the footage doesn't pack the evocative punch Herzog intends, and segments that should be lyrical mind trips only result in overstretched longueurs. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Wavers between (sometimes) brilliant and (mostly) boring. But it would be wrong to call it a failure. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
At times playful and inventive, at others simplistic and silly. Ultimately, Werner Herzog's free-form, idiosyncratic devolution of the documentary is beautiful but dull. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
By the time Herzog tried to pass off jellyfish as Dourif's old pals, my indulgence was nearing its end--but then so was the movie. Read full review
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