This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The acting in this movie is really good.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Everybody knows that man has always shown his superiority over animals and birds.He has always made a point to do things which have been done by other species.There was hardly any moment in the history of mankind when man did not make attempts to fly high in the sky. It can be surmised that keeping these facts in mind,American director Robert Altman chose to make a film which revealed man's hidden desire to fly like a bird."Brewster Mccloud" is also a pure entertainer as it addresses a serious issue in a very light manner.Robert Altman's film bears testimony to the fact that birds need to be respected as well as protected from selfish humans.Apart from birds in all shapes and sizes,this film concerns a young boy who would avoid many young women whom he considers obstacles in his path leading to a journey high up in the skies.Funny cops are not a rarity but "Brewster Mccloud" has cast some funny actors as inept cops who adopt funny methods to find out more about murders taking place near them.Lastly,it is not only ornithologists but also bird watchers who would turn out to be this film's loyal audiences.

Brewster McCloud (1970), set in Houston in the late 1960s, is a Robert Altman comedy. One reference source describes it as a quirky comedy, which may be the best adjective to attach. The movie is about birds, and things bird-like, in three ways: First, Rene Auberjonois appears intermittently as a gawking professor of ornithology, to lecture the audience on matters avian. As the film progresses, he comes more and more to resemble his subject. Second, Bud Cort lives surreptitiously in a cubbyhole of the Astrodome, where he has fashioned a set of wings and is attempting to learn to fly, as in human-powered flight in something of a throwback to before the Wright brothers. Third, there occurs in Houston an inexplicable series of deaths, possibly murders. A common element is that the deceased are found with....well, let's stop there, tiptoeing toward the edge without risking falling off the cliff into a spoiler.Sally Kellerman plays a quasi-angelic character who watches over Cort's welfare. We have also the young Shelley Duvall, ten years before her appearance as Jack Nicholson's wife in The Shining (1980), in the role of an Astrodome tour guide. Michael Murphy plays the San Francisco detective who is summoned to Texas to investigate what is going on. His big decision each morning is to decide on the color de jour for his trademark gun holster and matching turtleneck.As was said, quirky.

Folks must have been very stoned when they made this .... It is such a "playful" film with so many great characters (and actors) riding on a very wild and surreal mixed up mythology. The film should be re-released (maybe since Altman got an Oscar they will).I don't know how he got away with making this... but thank God he did! In many ways Robert Altman except for his hands off approach to his actors has created many films that are at the equal to Fredrico Fellini in satire and whimsically profound sequences that baffle the audience -= but ain't it nice to home from a movie and remember it because you just can't get the ideas and images out of your head. This is a very funny film. It has the Star Spangle Banner, Ruby Slippers, Bird Do-Do, Mustard pumps, un-principled law enforcers, and wings that try very hard to fly away.

this is both the oddest film i've ever seen, and one of my all time favourites. after a few watches this movie emerges as one of those films you love to analyse and dissect over and over. with it's hidden metaphors and subtle in-jokes, it makes for an exciting piece of work for general film fans and film buffs alike. i'm a huge bud cort fan, and this is one of the films i can't take my eyes off of him in, and not just because i have a major crush on him, but because as always his performance is so enjoyable. he makes brewster, a theoretically dark and slightly frightening character strangely mesmerising and lovable. the best jokes in the film are the ones you'll miss if you blink. its worth watching at least twice to notice things you might not have the first time round. i can't recommend this film highly enough, its absurd, idealistic and beautiful.