Magic Trip
Magic Trip
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America.
3.0 out of 5 based on 10 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
15 |
| Genre |
Documentary |
| Director |
Alison Ellwood Alex Gibney |
| Cast |
Timothy Leary, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Garcia Stanley Tucci |
| Studio |
Studio Canal |
| Release Date |
November 2011 |
| Running Time |
107 mins |
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A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America.
Reviews
The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
“Touching, even minor-key-tragic. ”
17/11/2011
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The Observer
Philip French
“A hilarious, instructive and invaluable time capsule of that touching, idealistic and more than slightly ridiculous period.
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20/11/2011
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The Sunday Times
Cosmo Landesman
“At its best it’s also a funny, far-out and fascinating trip into the creation of the 1960s counterculture.
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20/11/2011
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The Daily Telegraph
Tim Robey
“The major caveat is that you’ll need a pre-existing susceptibility to that whole scene’s dippy fascination – quite a bit to ask, these days – or you may just want to step off.”
18/11/2011
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Time Out
Dave Calhoun
“The filmmakers make little attempt to argue any cultural or historical case for their subjects and there are too many folk on the bus to get close to anyone, even Kesey. But they make the wise decision to show no footage of anybody in later years ... which helps us to dive headfirst into both the journey and period and decide for ourselves whether to take it or leave it”
14/11/2011
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The Times
Kate Muir
“As with most cinematic drug trips, is that there’s nothing more boring than watching someone else get high. The Merry Pranksters may feel they started the hippy movement, but to our eyes they seem embarrassingly uncool. ”
18/11/2011
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“A watchable little blast from the past.”
17/11/2011
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The Evening Standard
Derek Malcolm
“The trouble with people high on hallucinogenic drugs is they think they are being incredibly interesting but rarely are. This is the trouble with Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney's otherwise rather jolly documentary.”
18/11/2011
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The Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
“While the restored footage has a certain vitality ... it fails to provide any new perspective or deeper understanding of what those early-'60s hippie-prototype adventurers might have been looking for or what they failed to find.”
12/08/2011
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The New York Times
Stephen Holden
“The cinematic equivalent of a yellowed scrapbook whose pictures are accompanied by sketchy captions created after the fact. ”
04/08/2011
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