Reviews

The problem with most people that don't "get" this little film is that they do not understand the concept of the "day trips to nowhere", which are VERY popular in England. For a small fee, you can hop on a bus and ride around the countryside doing nothing but getting drunk and having fun. And that is all this is about. There are some innovative video segments thrown in for some of the best songs in the Beatles catalog. Rest assured, if you "hated" Yellow Submarine (say wha?), you'll despise this. If you don't mind a half-hour of nonsense, you won't mind this either. Lighten up and dig it.

I finally go a chance to see this film after hearing the buzz about it, and what a dreadful film it is. A plodding story about the absolute worst society has to offer. While the film neither condemns nor praises the characters it portrays, it suffers for a lack of doing so. We follow the exploits of a group of mid teen 'kids' who run amok and destroy all lives they encounter along with their own. There's not a rotten juvenile in the bunch that wouldn't be better served in military school, boot camp or prison, led by an illiterate, slack-jawed doofus. If the underbelly of New York youth is/was truly this bad, then civilization indeed has no future. All the more frustrating is the lack of a cohesive end to this film, which just seems to stop when the material ran out - and I use the term material lightly, as the film appears to be scriptless. The best purpose this film serves is as a snapshot of New York back when it was a scary place to visit. Rental dollars would be better spent elsewhere.