A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

You haven't seen an outlandish movie like this in a long time. Or more correctly, you haven't seen a movie like Get Crazy, ever and you never will again. It's a unique, one of a kind, smart satire, set on New Years, 1983. I know exactly where I was that night, but it wasn't really memorable, yet this movie will be, once you've seen it. It's set in the Saturn Theatre, where the biggest rock concert ever, is under way. The enterprising owner Max Wolfe, (a great Alan Arkush, in a performance, unlike his others) is propositioned by a greedy developer, Colin Beverly, (a fantastic Ed Begley Jnr, hamming it up-nearly every actors fantastic in this) and his goons (who act as a Thesaurus to Beverly's remarks) to sell his theatre to make way for a bigger, more stylized and modernized one. Chili dog, eating Max, unobliging, and defiant, finds at the end of the night, a bomb has been planted in the theatre, set to explode at of course, Midnight. But before that we meet an array of the most craziest rockers every assembled, though you can't top idolized and aging punk rocker, Reggie W..ker, a real well you know, wonderfully played by Malcolm Mcdowell in one of his best ever performances, the last of the three best, all just mentioned, although Miles Chaplin good too, runs forth as Max's parasitic nephew. The pleasant performances of Stern and his new woman, provide a nice romantic element to the film. The crazy s..t, and rib poking humor is so original and consistently funny in this movie, and you just gotta meet, Bob Dylan lookalike rocker Audine, played brilliantly by too a famous rocker. Even Fabian gets in on this, adding to his acting resume, plus rocker Lee Ving, plays an uncaged and feral drummer and ornament to a rebel girl's band, who likes to headbutt walls, but also give strange signatures. And you can't leave without meeting, druggie robot, electric Larry, who lights up like a Christmas tree with his big case of colored goodies. The send up Blues character's scenes are classic. There's just so much original and funny s..t in this off the wall 80's flick one, as if a movie buff, this is one to put on that bucket list. That granted, your New Years will never be as wild as this one, or may'be some of you, wish it could be. I did think Chaplin kicking that poodle, though was in bad taste, although it did bounce back, barking on cue again.

Get crazy is a dropped on its head,spun in the cotton candy machine film.Based on the Fillmore east,it features Lou Reed aping Bob Dylan,Howard Kaylan aping Jerry Garcia,Malcolm Macdowell channeling Mick Jagger etc.director Allen Arkush worked at the Fillmore,so he based his experience on the screenplay,injecting a dose of rock and roll high school in the mix. The supporting cast includes Bobby Sherman and Fabian as henchmen who are helping to sabotage the new years eve party so their boss can build on the property.Mary Woronov and the late Paul Bartel {Eating raoul}round out the cast.Watch for the marijuana cigarette spectator who gets smaller as the film goes by.

I have this on tape and have made it a tradition, to be watched each New Years Eve for the past 20 years .... just can't think of not doing it. After Dick Clark and Times Square go off, on goes the movie. A movie about New Years Eve on New Years Eve ... what could be better. Sneaking up on 67, it's nice to know that my kids remember me doing this and still ask about to this day. It's a fun movie ... ENJOY !!! (don't pick it apart just enjoy it) Well seems I need to have more on here. So I would also like to point out that the music is good and I look forward to hearing each year, so again I'll say give it a look see, especially on New Years Eve.

I saw this movie, many years ago, during the Christmas season. I remember feeling very bored while waiting for my woman to get home, and being willing to try just about any movie. When I found that Lou Reed was a star, I had no doubt that I was not wasting my time. Sure, it was silly, and even a bit affected (or over the top, camp), but some movies are simply meant to entertain a specific market (or type of viewer). In this case, I would say that this is a musician's movie, not because there is so much good music, but because it parodies that "rock and roll" lifestyle.My favourite parts are, Lou Reed's journey while writing the song (I believe that the journey is supposed to be influencing it, but "Death Bed Request" is not a real song, as far as I know), and the dog being kicked across the room, by the person whom I believe to be the antagonist.