Brad Dourif, Capt. Donald Williams, Dr. Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Martin Lo ...( see more  see more... ) , Michael McCulley , Roger Diehl , Shannon Lucid , Ted Sweetser

The film follows a hypothetical proposition: a group of astronauts are circling the earth in a spacecraft, but they cannot return, as our planet has become uninhabitable. The cause of this remains ope...( read more  read more... )n; all-out war, outbreak of a new disease beyond control, radiation after the complete disappearance of the ozone layer, or whatever. The crew of the spacecraft has to find a more hospitable place out there in space, and releases a probe from their cargo bay, Galileo. But Galileo -- after sending back very disquieting data -- has to be sent on a suicide mission.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 21 min.

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Release Date: November 8, 2005

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DVD Release Date: November 14, 2006

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  • October 1, 2009
    Much like Fata Morgana, this is the side of Herzog's films I'm not too fussed about. Its dreamlike footage of space and underwater are mesmerising and the sci-fi story narrated by Dourif was also strangely captivating. I also loved the music, the problem is that none of it really...( read more) fit together. It just seemed a bit muddled, especially compared to his epic documentaries that I adore.
  • November 24, 2009
    Boring, dreamlike in a bad way and uninteresting. Maybe it's Herzog I don't like or maybe this was an effort to captivate with random images and sounds that completely failed for me. Oh, and "sci-fi fantasy"? God, no!
  • November 1, 2009
    One of Herzog's most epic films. It's a celebration of life and the universe, much like his earlier work. It's good stuff, but a little unusual compared to what we've seen of his work prior to his work today.
  • October 8, 2009
    Nice try, but this time a little bit bad.
  • September 16, 2008
    Era la prima volta che mi cimentavo nella visione di un vero "finto documentario", le immagini sono affascinanti la trovata di utilizzare immagini dell'antartide per rendere immagini "aline" è azzeccatissima. Geniale Herzog nel saperle scegliere e nel decidere di portare avanti q...( read more)uesto lavoro anti-commerciale solo per il piacere della regia.
  • September 12, 2008
    Un capolavoro. Il più grande finto documentario che abbia mai visto. Il più originale film di fantascienza che abbia mai visto. Uno dei montaggi più geniali che abbia mai visto. Le immagini più belle della Terra che abbia mai visto...come se fosse un altro splendido pianeta... Ge...( read more)niale anche la scelta delle musiche sarde. Werner Herzog è uno dei registi più sottovalutati come questo film. Ma in realtà dietro tutto vi è genio e follia visionaria.
  • July 21, 2008
    Herzog as artist and writer, suceeds in making one of the most interesting and bizzare sci-fi mockumentaries ever made, Herzog the director is just a bit out of step though. Like Criag Baldwin's films, Herzog's "Wild Blue Yonder" mixes documentary ar...(read more) chival footage,...( read more) with a fictional narrative, and a few "new" scenes, about the secret history of a group of Aliens from an aquatic world called "The Wild Blue Yonder".

    The aliens come to earth, with hopes of building great cities, and a large shopping mall...but as narrator "Brad Dourif" says "we sucked...that's right aliens suck!". No one shows up to the shopping malls a ruined American town, acts as stand in for the lost hopes and dreams of the aliens, some of whom take jobs at NASA in secret. Then when a space program is created with the intention of humans going to the aliens homeworld...well unfortunately that's when things, slow, way, way down.

    Before this point in the movie theres a good rythmic balance between narration and found footage, that keeps the film lively, about as soon as Dourif is no longer the center of the story, Herzog relies far too heavily on his found footage. Nasa astornaugts float in space(though beatiful too long, and when they arrive Yonder, we see more stunning underwater cinematography that does look like a truly alien world, but again, it just goes on just too long.
    An ambitious and at times fascinating film, where Herzog the writer beats out Herzog the director, it's usually the other way around.

    "Have you any idea how vast the distance between stars is?", Dourif, the sucky alien asks, annoyed and frustrated, after going over Herzog's pet peeves like white mountain climbers stealing the dignity of the mountains and the domestication of pigs as the worst move in human history, and until this film, no I don't think I fully comprehended the vastness of the world. Which is a Herzog idea that comes up again and again, little people, big world, and its only those crazy obsessive driven individuals who can make dents in it, or at least the most interesting dents.
  • July 14, 2008
    interesting but not his best effort
  • February 3, 2008
    this movie isnt a movie its more like a documentary that is boring and stupid,its a mish mash of clips put together to a narative and stupid almost unbearable musicthere is no real point to this movie
  • November 24, 2007
    When they find the underwurld - amazing and somehow emotional.

Critic Reviews


October 24, 2006
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

Thirty-four years after Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Werner Herzog remains enthralled by the marvelous, mysterious power of nature. full review

January 20, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

The director calls the film a 'science-fiction fantasy,' but it's really a languid meditation on human impermanence. full review

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