Oddly enough, the movie was nowhere near as trippy as I remember the book. It also had a happier-feeling ending. Yeah, believe me, the book left me way more depressed than this movie did. Maybe I just had more hormones back then. I’ll have to read the book again to be sure, since it’s been close to fourteen years since the last time.

I thought it would be tripper, what with being animated (digitally rotoscoped, a software Linklater had developed and is called, get this, Rotoshop).

Certainly the most entertaining parts are listening to the conversations between Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey, Jr. plus whoever is present with them at the time.

Worth the price of admission, but if you forced to me to say what Philip K. Dick-adapted movie I’d watch over and over again, it wouldn’t be this. I’ll probably buy it on DVD, but Bladerunner and, would you believe it, Total Recall, still outpace this by a mile, even if the novel, along with The Man in the High Castle, is my favorite Dick story. Speaking of The Man in the High Castle, I wonder how hard it would be to adapt THAT into a movie?

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It’s a wonderful life.

This sort of movie happens every once in a while. The last one I saw like this was Bruce Almighty.

Well, anyhow, here’s Click. I like these kinds of movies so I’m already biased (come on, don’t you watch Jimmy Stewart run around yelling Merry Christmas every year on the tube?).

It’s no Scrooged, though. That one remains, for me, the modern champ.

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Good movie. At times funny, at other times just plain silly — and sometimes mouth wide open hilarious. The movie even has heart, what’s not to love?

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Cheesy good fun. Worth a matinee, for sure. For some, full price (which I happily paid).

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All in good fun. Not as much fun as the first — this one goes a bit too serious and runs out too much plot to justify the need for a cliffhanger to force you to have to go see the third part. Yes, this is an Empire Strikes Back movie, only not so impressive.

Matinee.

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Enjoyable movie. Might pay a little TOO much homage to the Christopher Reeve movies, but that’s really nothing to complain about. I would have preferred Luthor to be less the Chris Reeve movie version and more the current incarnation of corporate mogul.

Brandon Routh is all right. I would have liked a little more charisma — he might be trying too hard. Kate Bosworth doesn’t work for me, but eh, she’s nice to look at, at least.

Worth the price of admission, sure. But not something that’ll stick with you the way Batman Begins did for me.

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