Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

FlashCallahan Smith's everyday life in college consists of: hanging out with his artsy, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, and lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor But it all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night, when a reoccurring dream becomes a bleak reality, and he starts having visions of a dystopian nature.Araki movies are an acquired taste, you either get them and appreciate their beauty, or you get on the bandwagon of people who cannot stomach certain things and dismiss it as rubbish.Out of all the Araki movies, this has to be his most accessible, and it's very intriguing from beginning to end. The opening shot is very reminiscent of something that David Lynch would do, and the film does have a very Mulholland Drive feel about it.As his films do, it gets very bonkers toward the end, and you do have to suspend belief come the very end, but the film has such a cool laid back lizard feel to it, that you cannot help but get sucked in to his vision.Not all will appreciate his work, but I really enjoyed this.

gavin6942 Smith's everyday life in the dorm -- hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor -- all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.I watched this because it had James Duval, although his role is very small (he plays a pro-legalization Rastafarian). But it is also a Gregg Araki film ,so it was worth watching just for that.Araki made some of the great nihilistic films of the 1990s, including "Doom Generation" and "Nowhere". They may not be critical successes and may be a bit tarnished in retrospect, but they influenced me as a 90s teenager. With this film, it seems I have grown up but Araki has not.He is still focused on the sexuality of young people, particularly the line between homosexuality and heterosexuality... a line he likes to blur. This is very much a return to the sexual politics of "Doom Generation", though without the nihilism. Still the weirdness, without the despair. Worth a peek but hardly a winner.

Jacques Shepherd The Good: The style and direction is executed quite well. It's pretty impressive for an independent film and especially one of such R-rated material such as this.The acting is pretty good. Smith (Thomas Dekker) was pretty good as your average sexually confused teenager and the rest of the characters were all superb in their own ways.So strange it's engaging. This is definitely one of the strangest films I've ever seen. It's on Salvador Dali levels of surreality. But the strange turns the film takes are so strange they're engaging. It's like Tommy Wiseau's The Room, which is so bad it's fascinating. In this case however, it's the strangeness and sexual taboos that are so attractive about the film.The Bad: The ending was too rushed and was brought down to basic sci-fi ending levels and denominates the story to an unnecessary them or us stance. If the film had a more stranger ending and had explored a more intellectual stance on the world as we know it, then it would have been better.Some of the characters I thought were unnecessary. In fact all the characters other than Smith, Stella and London and the characters they have sexual contact with are unimportant and could've been removed.Final Score: 8/10 Great. If you're a fan of really surreal and coming of age films then this is for you. I actually think back on it and I find that I really enjoyed it. So strange it's awesome.

Brent Trafton I have not been a big fan of Gregg Araki's films in the past but "Kaboom" is easily my favorite and it is his funniest.Obviously this is not a film for everyone. It is kind of a cross between "Scott Pilgrim versus the World" and "Donnie Darko" but "Kaboom" places more emphasis on comedy than narrative. From reading the other reviews on IMDb, a lot of people did not get the jokes. I was laughing throughout the entire movie. If you are offended by sexual content, this movie is not for you.This is one of the best ensemble casts I've seen in a while. Most of them are new to me. I predict Juno Temple is on her way to becoming a star.While "Kaboom" is definitely not for everyone, if you are willing to take a chance on an end-of-the-world sex comedy, you should give it a try.