Herzog's use of cinema defies the very fabric of our known world.
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07/03/07
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The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 22
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Theatrical Release: Oct 27, 2006 Limited
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 open - all-out war, outbreak of a new... [More]
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Reviews for The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy
Herzog remains a one-off in German cinema - eccentric, infuriating, cherishable - and nothing in this will detract from his legend.
06/15/07
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.
06/15/07
This is just further proof that Herzog can make a film about anything, and indeed, from anything.
06/15/07
It’s not helped by a watery soundtrack that sounds like chill-out trance played on a nose flute.
06/15/07
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.
06/15/07
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.
06/15/07
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.
06/14/07
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.
03/01/07
I don't know quite what Werner Herzog has been smoking all these decades, but more directors need to be smoking it.
02/17/07
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.
02/16/07
Top Critic 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.
02/15/07
Top Critic
while the narrative relies on some pretty goofy science, it's nonetheless a fascinating story to hear told
11/07/06
When Herzog cycles through scenes of scuba divers under the ice and astronauts sleeping in zero gravity, he conveys a strong sense of what 'alien' really means.
10/28/06
For devotees of lunatic Herzog adventure a la Fitzcarraldo, it's only a serviceable time-killer 'til the arrival of Rescue Dawn, the director's Americanization of his 1997 documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly.
10/27/06
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