Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

jaceberrymanjb This is it, King. God Save the Queen.This is definitely going to be a highly polarized film. I personally loved the movie, it was just the right amount weirdness, intelligence, and campyness. People might think it's awful but they can... Cult Classic in the making here folks.

irakusneiz It got my attention in the first 30 minutes, but after that everything went down the drain. I'll just give 3 stars because of the great cast, the music and the photography. It's true what it's said in other comments. You'll love it or you'll hate it.

jrspam29 A punk sci-fi alien sex comedy might not be for everyone, and that's ok. Yet for lovers of intelligent sci-fi mixed with experimental cinema, this movie dances like the sex pistols running through Bowie's "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Apparently based on a Neil Gaiman short story, the director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch stamps his punk musical feel onto Neil Gaiman's wonderfully thought out premise, and a cross cultural love story between aliens and punks entertainingly spews forth. Frankly, I loved it. Elle Fanning's adorable portrayal of naively transgressing from a controlling alien culture into 1977's punk world highlights the nature of punk's original anarchistic push against our own cultural normsI think time will prove critics wrong as this definitively un-hollywood take on punk and imagined alien culture clash elevates from the mass of easy critique into the status of cult classic.

plumfennec This is certainly a bizarre production. I went in less as a John Cameron Mitchell fan (Though I did enjoy Hedwig & even to an extent Shortbus) and more as a Neil Gaiman fan. I had no clue how such a short, strange, and vague story could really be adapted and Mitchell's answer was less to make a film out of the story and its implications - but his own film, in his own style, with his own themes based upon the skeleton of the story.And it works, provided you can tune into this films wavelength. It's an intentionally weird film; extremely campy, often stupid, and very heavily targeted towards an LGBT friendly demographic (In spite of the heterosexual main couple.). If you enjoy some of the more out there films from that crowd including some of Mitchell's previous films, you might be able to find How to Talk to Girls at Parties as charming as I did.It's not a great film by any stretch and it ends on an admittedly confusing note that I'm not sure I fully understood. It doesn't stick the landing when it comes to delivering on the sci-fi elements implied in the original short story. But one could argue that wasn't the point. It's clear this movie just wants to have fun.And fun it is! The characters are charming, there's some fun dialogue & gags, and the playful sexuality of the film is something that appeals to me as a member of the LGBT community. But it's easy to understand why this film is going to appeal to a very small niche.To quote Gaiman himself on the film: Watch the trailer. If that looks like a film you'll enjoy, go ahead and see it. If the style turns you off... you'll probably hate it. It is not for everyone and that is clear from any distance, but I just so happen to be in the demographic that found something to enjoy here.