"Finds Gregg Araki seeking a balance between the gleefully anarchic impulses of his early New Queer Cinema efforts and the newfound technical control of Mysterious Skin." - Fernando F. Croce

Playing it fast and loose with Kaboom, Gregg Araki continues down the same path, taken in years prior with Mysterious Skin and Smiley Face, of subversion and deviancy, blending a vibrant approximation of teenage youthfulness and sexual abandon with a fitfully dense plot of uncompromisingly eccentric design. As with Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Kaboom brings vitality and vision in spades, further strengthening the argument for unconventionally kaleidoscopic cinema. It's a radical vision.

It's exceptionally erratic and has barely any interest in its apocalyptic plot (?) but this is a wonderfully hedonistic sci-fi sex comedy which is intentionally unserious about anything in itself. It's still manages to be deeply charming and sincere though - with a sexual openness I wish existed in more films - all the while being amusing in how deadpan it is when the sci-fi and fantastical aspects appear unexpectedly.

I could be gay for this movie...or at least bi... I mean, the plot is as retarded as it is irrelevant, but this movie can actually pull off a pretty weird vibe without trying too hard. Plus, I actually liked the digital look of the movie and even though everyone looks like a fuckin' model and the colors are so flamboyant (neither of which the movie sets out to do subtly), it's kind of sexy. In a weird, bisexual way. kind of a look into Araki's head. fun movie.

"The Gregg Araki Movie" indeed. A nice, absurdly self-referential career summery from a wildly misunderstood auteur. It's very much like Nowhere redux, with a third act thrown in that's like Don Delillo on amyl nitrate, not as fresh as the first time around but still charming and "Araki" in all the right ways. It's all here: the gender-oblivious sex (lots of sex!), the drugs, the colors, the shoegaze soundtrack.

Trashy. Besides, I really don't like witches, and this movie would have made Proust cry.

I didn't get it.

Wild, sexy, all over the map. I love this movie's frenetic, unpredictable energy.

Kaboom is a kaleidoscopic candy-coloured psychedelic fantasia of millennial fin de siècle pansexual eroticism, knowing B-movieness, wry humour, and vibratory pop art energy. It also doesn’t hurt that Dekker, Temple, Zylka, Mejia, Bennett, Olive, Mendez, and Fischer-Price are all eminently fuckable. This is an endlessly fun, self-assured, and deliciously twisted highwire act from Araki, and I loved every minute of it.

Gregg Araki may not have a film-making talent which will go down in history as one of the greatest, but his output remains refreshingly original. His most accessible film centres mainly on a set of attractive young people who will have sex with each other without hesitation. Once bored with this scenario, Araki cooks up the biggest, most nonsensical deus ex machina ending I've ever seen, and calls it quits. You have to admire his balls, and on some level forgive the incoherent mess of a story.

This movie is a bizarre romp ... and I mean free-loving, trippy-sound tracking, drug-induced, schizo-psychedelic, world-blowing-up-at-end-of-movie parade through a young man's sexual and spiritual fantasies ... the soundtrack is ultra-cool, the storyline is convoluted, the bodies sexy ... I give up trying to sound intelligent ... the movie is bizarre! watch it! :p

Juno Temple was the only actor in this completely empty bullshit.

09 ekim 10, filmekimi10, gmall5, 19:00, cansuyla & muhtelif cinselliklerini birbirine karistiran, escinsellik yoktur cinsellik vardir mottosu ile her turlu varyansin komik bir uslupta denendigi universitelile ilgili bir film. korku, komedi, fantastik gibi turleri birbirine karistiran, absurdlestikce abdsurdlesen, kafa iyiyken yazilip cizilmis, yok daha neler derken kaboom. araki'nin en iyisi degil ama 'iyi vakit gecirmek icin neden olmasin' filmi. (eksisozluk, yazar: ride - #20558048)

Araki discovers modern morality within the blueeyed ruins of a Hollister model the same way archeologists uncover ancient totems.

A silly and pointless mess that is not without its fair share of entertaining moments.

Watch this film if you ever wondered if Richard Kelly's Southland Tales rough cut would have been any better if there was any gay porn in it. Otherwise you can safely skip it, bacause it's a silly mess.

This movie is a ridiculous, self-indulgent, and inconsequential mess, but -- largely due to its lack of pretension, technical acumen and tonal brinkmanship -- I kind of love it anyway.

Witty/random. Like.