Crystal Fairy (2013)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 48 | Rotten: 11
Slight and unpolished, The Crystal Fairy is held together with Sebastian Silva's assured direction and a pair of strong, committed performances from Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffman.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 2
Slight and unpolished, The Crystal Fairy is held together with Sebastian Silva's assured direction and a pair of strong, committed performances from Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffman.
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In this freewheeling comedy from the director of The Maid, Michael Cera (Arrested Development, Superbad) stars as Jamie, a shaggy, boorish young American traveling through Chile. While searching for a rare hallucinogen-the famed San Pedro cactus-with a trio of Chilean brothers, Jamie invites a mysterious hippie (Gaby Hoffmann) along for the ride, but her free-spirited personality quickly clashes with his self-absorption. When they head for the beach, Jamie's big trip starts taking surprising
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Michael Cera
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Gaby Hoffmann
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Juan Andrés Silva
Champa -
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Agustín Silva
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All Critics (59) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (11)
Jamie and Crystal Fairy, though slightly exaggerated for comic effect, are still truer representations of gringo backpackers than I've ever seen on film.
Top Critic[Cera] has transformed himself from one of the most irritating actors of his generation to one of the best.
Consistently funny and fascinating.
While the pleasures of Silva's trippy road-trip movie are mostly minor, it still does something major by eliciting Cera's boldest performance to date.
Shot on the fly, while Silva, Cera & Co. were waiting to make another movie, Crystal Fairy ends up on a beach, and ends up resonating with a pesky charm.
Part drug comedy, part psychological drama, the movie is slight, but only superficially so.
"Crystal Fairy" is a funny and authentic look at two very distinct types of Americans abroad, who can't escape themselves no matter how far they go.
Somehow or other, I ended up finding the movie strangely compelling. There's something appealing here.
Writer-director Sebastián Silva takes viewers on a physical, spiritual, hallucinogenic journey. He's a marvelous filmmaker and storyteller.
Cera takes a road trip... and a mescaline trip
It has an air of authenticity, loose and free-flowing...(which) works very well thematically, as Cera and Hoffmann explore two different versions of aimlessness.
The road trip/buddy film has been with us for many decades but helmer/scribe Sebastien Silva and his stars give it their own delightful spin.
Time marches on, and Hoffman and Cera with it. Gone is their childhood charm and naivety; replaced by two talented and daring actors making the most of a flawed, but occasionally fascinating movie to prove emphatically they're not kids anymore.
Like the hallucinogenic brew the film's American drug tourist painstakingly distills from a purloined San Pedro cactus, it demonstrates that a simple formula can produce a potent effect.
Pleasant enough but not terribly satisfying.
it's great to see [Michael Cera] upending his sweet man-child persona...But the real revelation of "Crystal Fairy" is former child actress Gaby Hoffman
A highly improvised, Chilean-set travelogue that unfolds in long, shaggy, straggling stretches seemingly meant to mimic and induce the frazzled vexation of its protagonist.
Watching other people on a drug trip is never much fun.
The film becomes a road trip to awareness.
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Foreign Titles
- Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (DE)
- Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (UK)
