Wild in the Streets

Silly and unrealistic but some fun moments

This was very up and down for me. The synopsis makes this sound a lot more interesting than it is but it does have some high and entertaining points. Interesting ending that makes you question what you thought the film was trying to convey throughout. What began as what I thought was a film made by old people trying to make a story for young people, I came out of it thinking that it's trying to say power will corrupt, no matter what age you are

Just for Pryor.

Life is shit

What an odd oddity. I only watched this because it came up on We Hate Movies.

Campy late '60s time capsule. A bit too silly to take seriously. The cast is great, though, with Pryor especially good in an early role, as one of Jones's devoted followers.

A film much more fun to talk about than it is to watch. It's not particularly funny and they seem to want us to fall in love with an imaginary teen pop idol.

Good/interesting cast, with a Brad Pitt lookalike in the lead role. Treads an uneasy path between searing drama and farce. A number of silly songs featuring numbers (thus making it seem more like a Broadway musical than a movie); the exception was the trenchant "Shape of Things To Come." Still, where else are you gonna get to see Richard Pryor and Greg Brady in the same film?

Enjoyable on a nonthink level

In all likelihood, this is the most wildly overrated movie of the 60s. (Here I go again) nowhere nearly as much fun as the cast and synopsis make it sound