I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Absolutely Fantastic

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Because the general public are morons and critics are refined professionals.NOT because critics are snooty snoots and regular folk know whats best.Hidden themes/plot:Michael Cera plays a young, educated, and rebellious American young man on a "TRIP" to Chile seeking out the San Pedro cactus, a psychoactive cactus containing mescaline. A TRIP to Chile, a road TRIP to the beach, and a mescaline TRIP on the beach.Cera's character, Jamie, is often described as aggressive, rude, unlikeable, etc. Actually people are simply misinterpreting his complete and utter IMPATIENCE and OBSESSION. Jamie is OBSESSED with Alduous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception" and Jamie is OBSESSED with getting to try mescaline.He along with three Chilean friends take a road trip/adventure across Chile having all these amazing experiences. Does Jamie care? No, he wants to get going and won't even smell the roses (pointed out when Crystal Fairy smells the herbs she picked in the field and gets him to smell it). Jamie is so obsessed and impatient that he comes off extremely ungrateful. He fails to live in the moment.Jamie is impatient.Enter Crystal Fairy. Jamie is impatient. Crystal Fairy requires much, much patience to deal with.Jamie is logical, rational. Crystal fairy believes in things because.Jamie believes that mescaline open the doors of perception and will grant him some sort of insight in to himself and the world. Crystal fairy is an avid psychedelic user who's brain is entirely fried. Reality staring in the face of Jamie's psychedelic theory.So the theme is patience. Patience in waiting for something you're excited about and patience in dealing with difficult people.Crystal fairy's name is Crystal FAIRY. FAIRY. At the end of the movie she mysteriously disappears behind a rock. Fairy=ANGEL.Michael Cera's character, Jamie, is UNGRATEFUL to God for the life he's been given. He takes his adventure in Chile entirely for granted. Ridiculously so. So "God", a secret character in this story, sends a magic psychedelic hippie angel who is SUPER stupid and annoying. To teach Jamie patience in dealing with people and in waiting for things to occur. Also to be the living example of the dangers of psychedelics--to try to scare Jamie away from drugs.He does it anyways.WHOA. What a trippy movie.This entire movie is a TRIP. A trip to Chile, a trip across Chile, and a psychedelic trip. Also a secret subplot that blows minds.Considering this was masterfully written/directed by one individual... it's a 10/10.If you think this movie sucks... no, you just totally missed the entire point of the movie.

I'd rather lick dirt from the bottom of a muddy welly that had been used to tread through a field of cows suffering from delly belly, after eating a truck full of out of date vindaloo's that fell of a passing lorry, than be forced to carry on watching this film!!It's utterly boring, the dialog would be similar to a group of your mates hanging out pretending to make a film at a party. It's uncomfortable viewing to say the least.I'm sorry for anyone that has wasted their earth minutes watching this film, you are now closer to death than you were before you decided to settle down on the sofa with your lady to watch this film. Your optimistic expectations that this film would surprise and delight you has been punched out of you like a heavy weight world boxer sucker punching an eight year old boy.

Chilean writer/director Sebastián Silva was successful with his auspicious 2009 debut, 'The Maid'. But here, with his sophomore effort, Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus, he proffers up a real vanity project, marked by an air of unmistakable self-indulgence. Joining him in this slight affair is Michael Cera, whose star power obviously got the film bankrolled. Cera plays Jamie, an obnoxious version of himself. He finds himself at a party with a friend, Champa, in Santiago, Chile, where he scores some cocaine and boasts about his knowledge of Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of Perception'. He soon runs into Crystal Fairy, a hippie, earth-mother type, who isn't shy about disrobing in later scenes and showing off her hairy armpits. Jaime insults Crystal about her dancing abilities and jokingly mentions that he and his friend (along with his two brothers) will be taking a three hour trip to score some San Pedro cacti and its by-product: pure mescaline; it's mainly Jaime's plan, who intends to imbibe the psychedelic substance, at the beaches of the Atacama desert. Much to Jaime's chagrin, while driving to the town up north where they'll be looking for the cactus, Crystal calls and surprisingly informs Jaime that she'll be meeting him and the boys in town. Jaime ramps up his overbearing demeanor, as the group knocks on the doors of residents who have large stalks of San Pedro cacti, growing in their front yards. None of the residents seem to be interested in giving Jaime and his posse a piece so Jaime simply cuts off one and the group doesn't seem to be upset by his immoral actions.When the group finally arrives at the seashore, Crystal goes off by herself, communing with nature and Jaime boils some cactus and gets high on the mescaline. I understand that Cera actually did get high during the filming but none of his dreamy 'trips' are illustrated visually—he merely parades around the beach, making an ass of himself, as he did before. Later, during a campfire, Crystal reveals that she was raped, after being led away from some kind of new age gathering she was attending. Crystal also reveals that she works as a dominatrix, which doesn't seem to perturb any of Jaime's pals. As for the Chilean group, they really have little to do throughout the film, except ensure that Jaime, doesn't get too out of hand.Somewhere there's a solid, well-developed story here, but most of the lines are improvised and everything ends up rambling. Some judicious editing could have improved the story quite a bit, but Mr. Silva was probably having too much fun during the shooting of the film, to think about that. Silva has an ear for dialogue and certainly the Chilean landscape will keep your eyes glued to the screen. The aim here was obviously for comedy but unfortunately Cera's character is so unsympathetic, that we care little about any of this machinations, along with his Chilean compatriots, whom he took along for the ride.

If I had Jamie in my group of friends - I would of repeatedly kicked his balls, tied him up or just shot him. His ignorance and impatience wound me up. Crystal fairy is a Marmite kind of girl - you either hate her or love her, but in her own way she is fun.Anyway, the film itself is slow and boring. It could be that you just want to see the gang get wasted, but the build up to it was just plain boring.I can't tell you what happened at the end as I fell asleep, and for some people saying that it is like a modern age Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas need their heads checking. This is nowhere near the classic drug journey FALILV shows.