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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettHerzog's strangely beautiful film has marvelous music and hypnotic imagery. A documentary for stoners and people who are that way naturally, it is a cautionary tale for wishful thinkers.
- 80VarietyVarietyShould stand with the likes of "Fata Morgana" and "Lessons of Darkness" as one of helmer's best efforts at smudging the lines between docu and fiction.
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirNot a major Herzog work or one that will draw a large audience, but a must-see for those who suspect (as I do) that he's one of the greatest talents now working in this medium.
- 80The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThere is pleasure in such useless beauty, of course, and pleasure too in drifting with the jellyfish amid the wild blue yonder of a great filmmaker’s imagination.
- 75TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghWerner Herzog's self-proclaimed "science-fiction fantasy" is a meticulously constructed fiction made from a combination of real-life footage repurposed in ways a conventional documentarian couldn't imagine.
- 67The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe Wild Blue Yonder has a small message to deliver about the importance of ecological conservation, but mostly, it's an excuse to cut together mesmerizing undersea and outer-space photography while a hypnotic soundtrack drones on.
- 63New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA meandering, amusing trifle, Werner Herzog's latest film is as cheekily flaky as his recent "Grizzly Man" was sharply down-to-earth.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceThough occasionally striking, the footage doesn't pack the evocative punch Herzog intends, and segments that should be lyrical mind trips only result in overstretched longueurs.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoWavers between (sometimes) brilliant and (mostly) boring. But it would be wrong to call it a failure.
- 50Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneAt times playful and inventive, at others simplistic and silly. Ultimately, Werner Herzog's free-form, idiosyncratic devolution of the documentary is beautiful but dull.