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.

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

wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank *splurt*

The middle really doesn't make sense. But you can have some great flashes of ideas.

It walks a fine line between pretentiousness and stimulating, and even if I enjoyed it I can easily imagine people disliking this. The visual style is a bit uneven but still adds to the experience. Even if that experience is not really that much more than a random assortment of people barraging you with pseudo-intellectual ideas about life and death and dreams.

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.

Don't watch this drunk and tripping. Or sober.

Pretentious as fuck.

Trippy animated flick. Pretty good.

It's been years, but I remember it being thought-provoking, to say the least.

Great direction, animation and acting/voices in this exploration of dream philosophy. But while some of it is genuinely intriguing far too much feels as if you're stuck in a room with a bunch of stoned university students, babbling on about something you don't agree with in very pretentious, verbose language. A real shame because there are some truly cracking moments (particularly involving the animation) and I really wanted to enjoy this more.

Linklater's dreamy metaphysical journey is engaging, dazzling and beautiful. An experience for brain and eyes.

Whenever anybody, usually a highschool kid who hangs out at the Japan club every Wednesday at lunch, says that American animation all sucks, show him this and prove him wrong.

Linklater's films are about the space in between people; they're about the process of sharing and understanding ideas, and the magic involved in their communication. Waking Life is an inspiring celebration of the community of ideas. The continuity of human thought and the desire to explain what we don't know is gratifying and inspirational in a weird way. In some ways it's an incomplete film because it's not finished until you've had a dialogue with the stuff that's thrown at you.

Wonderful, thought-provoking stuff. See it if you're interested in philosophy of any kind.

The most insufferable movie ever made, with two hours of the most asinine and insipid conversations you'll ever hear. The script is something you'd expect from a pothead who dropped out of community college after attending one lecture on introduction to philosophy. Never has the adjective 'half-baked' been so apt. Oh, and the rotoscope visual style is as nauseating as the dialogue.

I fell asleep and that is never a good sign.