NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

thebrighteyes Werner Herzog makes some pretty good documentaries, but this fiction pseudo-doc isn't one of his better accomplishments. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) takes stock footage and real interviews and then intertwines it with a fictional story narrated/discussed by (actor Brad Dourif) an alien from another planet.The story, constructed with this outside footage, is about some journey to and from the Andromeda galaxy, and it really doesn't matter because the story is really boring. Yeah, some of the imagery is really beautiful, and the concept of the film is one of the more original things I've seen... Hell, I wouldn't even know what genre to categorize this in (fictional documentary, I suppose).This, unfortunately, doesn't make up for the sheer dullness of the movie and the agonizingly bad soundtrack. Dourif's poor acting doesn't help things much either.

bertseymour7 I respect Herzog and like how he goes in strange directions, but with that sometimes he wanders down the wrong path, or maybe wrong isn't the word. He sometimes wanders down a boring path. Somehow Herzog got his hands on some space footage and some antarctic underwater footage and thought he could compose that into a sci fi movie.This is of course a visually distinctive journey and a must for all die hard Herzog fans, but I felt it was a bit too strange and far out. Brad Dourif plays an alien on earth who says he sucks at what he does or something along those lines, which is kind of funny.Maybe you have to be in the right atmosphere to enjoy this journey, but if you are only going to see one Herzog film, don't make it this one.

clymbon This is not a science fiction movie at all. It's some actors standing around on vacant lots blabbing some nonsense about how their great-great-great-etc. grandfathers came to earth and decided to build... wait for it... a Shopping Mall! Utterly ridiculous. There's some good NASA footage, but that footage would have been better used in a straightforward science documentary. Similarly, the footage of ice divers is excellent, but I found myself thinking that there must be an original soundtrack about ice diving that went with the footage, and would probably be much more interesting to listen to, since the footage didn't really have anything to do with the story line of the movie. In summary, if you're into watching Werner Herzog play around with medium of film, maybe you'll enjoy this, but if you were expecting an actual movie, you'll be sadly disappointed.

richard_sleboe I'm not sure at all what this is. Maybe that's a good thing. Director Werner Herzog calls it "a science fiction fantasy", but that doesn't say much. Using existing footage from space (from the 1989 Atlantis mission STS-34) and Antarctica (by Henry Kaiser) as well as about 15 minutes of his own footage, Herzog creates a faux narrative revolving around an alien in human shape (Brad Dourif) looking almost, but not entirely unlike a Steve Ballmer/Karl Lagerfeld crossbreed. We are led to believe he stranded on earth as a refugee from the Andromeda galaxy, while shuttle astronauts are exploring his native world as a potential human habitat. The local wildlife (mostly jellyfish) apparently speaks Swahili (or something), while back on earth madcap NASA scientists fantasize about shopping malls in space. It's at least as far-fetched as it sounds, but not without humorous touches. I especially liked the alien's synopsis of 20th century Terran history: WWI, WWII, Marylin Monroe, Elvis Presley. Sums it up pretty nicely I think.