Amazing animation, but drags on way too long.

After a while, the philosophical ramblings become tedious and uninteresting. As a philosophical argument? Pretty interesting. As a film? Eh...

Considering how time-consuming the animation process is, and how well it brings out the unique strengths of an artist, using it to animate bits and pieces of baby's first philosophy lectures seems like a massive waste of potential, and the movie comes off as a story of a young man who has the most boring dreams ever. What little truly dream-like material there is is excellent, and some Slacker-esque encounters are a welcome throwback, but mostly the film is just a bad idea with killer style.

Some very interesting conversations but also quite a few boring ones. Rotoscopy looks nice.

This flick has a lot of potential, though it starts pretty boring. The rotoscopy is okay as soon as story starts to develop, but in the beginning it is quite shaky and disturbing. Story contains thoughtful conversations between non-interesting ones. But it is too literal and episodic; animation just supports the text. It never took out of it's own. Flick brought into my mind the book If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, but does not reach that level ever.

I'm kind of torn. I love the visual style and the whole philosophical dream atmosphere, but too much of the actual content is half baked beyond belief.

REALLY mind blowing.

It's great because it has the potential to be life changing. The ideas may be presented in new and shiny ways, but they have been around for ages, in a way this is a film largely about Decartes' concepts, among others.

god, a mate put this on while i was tripping balls and i didn't really think it existed until now. thanks criticker!

Worth watching a few times. Basically it's just a bunch of other peoples interesting ideas thrown together...... Philosophy 101.

An interesting movie but not nearly as amazing as I once thought. Sure, it's philosophical and its animation is fairly innovative, but there is not enough to make me watch it that often.

Thought-provoking meditation on philosophy presented in a unique format that keeps your attention throughout. The film can leave the viewer tired by the end in the constant barrage of ideas, since each idea is mind-blowing. This movie changed my life, in particular the "Holy Moment" scene.

"An intriguing and visually impressive film squarely aimed at the art house crowd."

Cool visual style and dialogues that make your head spin at times. There's not really a cohesive structure though. The whole film is pretty much like a chaotic dream.

You can tell that he's really in love with the ideas, and some of them are interesting, but that doesn't always make for a good film. More of a curiousity than anything. Rotoscoping is novel and exciting the first time you see it, and then it quickly becomes gimmicky. Might be of some minor interest.

The crowning jewel in Linklater's portfolio of sub-art school trash. Looks interesting, but the monologues are mindnumbing and the overall tone is unrelentingly obnoxious.

Visually gratifing, but often pretentious

The movie is interesting, but doesn't quite manage to pull you in like Linklater's own A Scanner Darkly where both the style and the narrative are perfected.