Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

kurosawakira The most celebrated work of the brother Quays', this adaptation of Bruno Schulz's "Street of Crocodiles" is an amazing work of imaginative genius that's enthralling, alluring and hyper-cinematic.I really want to be able to dream like this. Or perhaps I do but I can't remember. It's like "Finnegans Wake", really, where everything is loaded with meaning on multiple levels simultaneously. The Brothers' imagery is just like this, it seems to explode to all directions, all the time, and one is breathless in trying to keep up.The brothers' work is also deeply referential. The tennis rackets and ice cube are straight from "This Unnameable Little Broom" (1985), and this internal connectivity brings a sense of integrality, where we reassemble the things we see — much of what is incomprehensible for us — in a wider frame of reference, as if resuscitating the images from our unconsciousness with fresh connotations to other films, somehow becoming even richer and more meaningful.It's also utterly awe-inspiring how they make the camera move and inhabit the world. It moves effortlessly and fluidly, examining the smallest of details and then cleaving the particle-filled spaces framed by the brothers' exquisite knack for interior design.

jzappa This visually amazing achievement in clay animation begins with a live action man closing up a lecture hall and reaching into a box in which he snips the string holding a scrawny, almost skeletal puppet. Unconstrained, the puppet cautiously wanders the darkened rooms in the world of the box. The dismal vibes and infectious musical score suggest a tone of seclusion and senselessness, constraining us into direct empathy with the puppet as he deals with a domain of his reality, which is full of simple machines and mechanisms and man-made amusements. As he seeks to conform, or is coerced, of which we are never quite sure, the film little by little bares how fruitless the environment essentially is. Soul and strength are slowly reduced to expose the phase of life as a macrocosm.The idea of a puppet being cut loose from its string inside of a box of dark rooms to wander about without aid is fascinating, but lots of people could make a movie that basically revolves around the idea of a wasteland where nothing ends, nothing concludes. It's quite easy. It's basically an excuse to trail off on a stream of consciousness. However the Quay brothers have done something organic and beautiful by telling a story with images. The understanding of cinema intrinsic in Street of Crocodiles is important and exceptionally valuable. Its concept is in truth a very deeply imagined allegory for a mind-shiftingly objective philosophical, perhaps existential, perception, taking life as a whole and putting it in the context of another impression of it, a smaller sort of spin-off of human life, causing us to rethink our existence.

Kitty_Lester Not an imitation, rather an homage to Jan Svankmajer, the Borther's Quay can be a little unsettling to the uninitiated. They are well worth the price of admission and then some. Always a rich tapestry of the imagination gone wild, this collection of short films is effective both for the heart and the head. That these brothers have not gone on to blockbuster status is either a testiment to their great artistry or a testiment to La La land's great stupidity in not scooping up the brightest minds in the business. Here is somthing new.

dzstroke015 I have seen this film numerous times before buying it on dvd this year and I have to say that it's impact has not wavered in the slightest. Wonderful set design to house the strange, almost nightmarish characters and bodies that only the Brothers Quay could bring to life. The legitstics and reality of this world are unimportant and have no baring on the minimal plot. One is simply asked to believe that this place exists for the ungodly creatures to inhabit. To say that this film brings up moments of some childhood nightmare wihtin us is not far from the truth. But what the Quay Brothers manage to do (for me, anyways) is open up the possibility of worlds never explored within the sub-conscious, to allow oneself to be absorbed by the rust and decay and follow the trails of strings into the darkness, hoping to find some answers to questions you forgot you had. As soon as I saw this I knew that they had tapped into the dreams that some of us wished we didn't have, but would have been upset had we not had them shown to us to begin with. This is probably the best work by the brothers that you could possibly see.