The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy (2006)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:23
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release:15-06-2007
Synopsis: The film follows a hypothetical proposition: a group of astronauts are circling the earth in a spacecraft, but they cannot return, as our planet has become uninhabitable. The cause of this remains... [More]
Reviews for The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy
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Herzog remains a one-off in German cinema - eccentric, infuriating, cherishable - and nothing in this will detract from his legend. Full Review |
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An unlikely combination, but then Herzog never ceases to surprise and here, despite some dull patches, does so with an off-centre film of an almost dreamlike quality. Full Review |
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3/5 |
It’s a long, strange trip, alternately banal and visionary. Full Review |
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3/5 |
This is just further proof that Herzog can make a film about anything, and indeed, from anything. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It’s not helped by a watery soundtrack that sounds like chill-out trance played on a nose flute. Full Review |
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3/5 |
http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=161810 Full Review |
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4/5 |
Despite the film's playful humour, there's also a deadly seriousness to The Wild Blue Yonder, for it shows man's insignificance faced with the sheer vastness of nature. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Sci-fi nuts, stoners and conspiracy theorists might get a kick out of this. But even Herzog fans will find this mix of found footage and Kinski-lite diatribe as frustrating as it's fascinating. Full Review |
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A scientific context is offered by interviews with researchers expounding modes of intergalactic travel, but the real pleasures are in the organic beauty of deep spaces and the ambiguous position of the humans suspended in them. Full Review |
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Raw materials are mingled with staged performance, context is scrambled, all of it is transformative Full Review |
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4/4 |
Herzog's use of cinema defies the very fabric of our known world. Full Review |
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Though far from perfect, The Wild Blue Yonder does have something to say about human folly and it makes its statement in an unusual and thought-provoking way. Full Review |
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5/5 |
I don't know quite what Werner Herzog has been smoking all these decades, but more directors need to be smoking it. Full Review |
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This wacky 'science fiction fantasy' (2005) by Werner Herzog looks like it was made for a few thousand bucks, but it's held aloft by the filmmaker's inexhaustible curiosity and wonder. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The Wild Blue Yonder is 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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[A] bizarre, beautiful and slightly tedious amalgamation. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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[A] maddeningly pretentious docu-fiction mash-up. Full Review |
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4/5 |
while the narrative relies on some pretty goofy science, it's nonetheless a fascinating story to hear told Full Review |
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