Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 28, 2009

Raw materials are mingled with staged performance, context is scrambled, all of it is transformative

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Jennie Kermode Eye for Film Dec 7, 2007 4.5/5

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Rob Humanick Projection Booth Jul 3, 2007 A

Herzog's use of cinema defies the very fabric of our known world.

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Anthony Quinn Independent (UK) Jun 15, 2007 2/5

Herzog remains a one-off in German cinema - eccentric, infuriating, cherishable - and nothing in this will detract from his legend.

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Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard Jun 15, 2007 3/5

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.

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Tom Charity Total Film Jun 15, 2007 3/5

It's a long, strange trip, alternately banal and visionary.

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Phelim O'Neill Guardian Jun 15, 2007 3/5

This is just further proof that Herzog can make a film about anything, and indeed, from anything.

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Wendy Ide The Times (UK) Jun 15, 2007 2/5

It's not helped by a watery soundtrack that sounds like chill-out trance played on a nose flute.

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Jamie Russell Film4 Jun 15, 2007 3/5

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Tom Dawson BBC.com Jun 15, 2007 4/5

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.

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David Parkinson Empire Magazine Jun 15, 2007 3/5

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.

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Ben Walters Time Out Jun 14, 2007

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.

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Eric Monder Film Journal International Mar 1, 2007

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.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Feb 17, 2007 A

I don't know quite what Werner Herzog has been smoking all these decades, but more directors need to be smoking it.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Feb 16, 2007

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.

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Sid Smith Chicago Tribune Feb 15, 2007 2/4

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.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Feb 1, 2007 3/4

[A] bizarre, beautiful and slightly tedious amalgamation.

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John Thomason Orlando Weekly Nov 16, 2006

[A] maddeningly pretentious docu-fiction mash-up.

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Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Nov 7, 2006 4/5

while the narrative relies on some pretty goofy science, it's nonetheless a fascinating story to hear told

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