Review of Swiss Army Man (2016) by Thesweboo — 14 Dec 2018

You have to give this film and its creators kudos for creativity. You've most likely NEVER seen a movie like this. It's truly unique, weird, bizarre and different. For better or worse. It has moments of pure brilliance; the montage scene with its AMAZING music (goes for the entirety of the movie, and it's all acapella!) is genuinely one of my favorite movie scenes ever.

It's euphoric and magical. Then there're other scenes where they do things different in another way. A very weird way. Boner compasses and zombie fart-driven jet skis weird. Lots of farting in this movie.

All of it is very hit or miss and most times, unfortunately, it's a miss personally. One of the visions was to create a movie where the first fart made you laugh and the last one made you cry. In reality it's more like the first one makes you cringe and the last one makes you smile.

The ending felt kinda rushed and tacked-on but it does also have one of my favorite quotes from a movie ever. Where this movie really shines is with the charming chemistry and dialogue between Dano and Radcliffe and the accompanying music.

It has quite a lot to say about life actually, some of it more profound than the rest. At the same time I did cringe really hard at times and wanted to turn it off at the start the first time I watched it.

In the end, I do however really like and appreciate this movie. It's flawed but hard not to love. Give it a fair change, it does deserve it. It's truly original and in the future with ideas like this and better execution, greatness is to come.