Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013)

Too much of everything

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Review: I actually enjoyed this movie because I have been in a simian type of environment before. The whole movie has a kind of independent look to it which really suits the films tone. The characters were a great choice, especially the weird and wonderful Crystal Fairy who was really in her own world. I liked the fact that there was a whole meaning to the film and that all of the characters were on there own mission. It's not very often that you find movies that don't have that much dialogue, but the meaning and feel to what the director is trying to portray, really flows out with the actions of each character. For a film that isn't a bit blockbuster, it's worth a watch but if your expecting explosions and CGI then this is not the movie for you. Enjoyable!Round-Up: We are really beginning to see a different side to Michael Cera, who usually plays the crystal clean characters that can't do no wrong. I think that he was getting fed up with getting type casted. It's amazing to think that the the girl that plays Crystal Fairy is actually the kid out of Field Of Dreams & Uncle Buck. Anyway, she played a very convincing part in this film and it cracked me up when they called her Crystal Hairy. I recommend this movie to people who are into there road movies about a group of teenagers tripping out on Cactus juice. 5/10

CRYSTAL FAIRY & THE MAGICAL CACTUS has little to offer its viewers. The dialogue comes off as a documentary or a reality show (which, as I recently discovered, is because most of the film was not scripted, as the cast either improvised or was fed lines by the director right before takes), and there isn't much plot to the film. To put it simply, a group of friends in Chile search for the San Pedro cactus in order to cook it and drink it as a hallucinogenic drug, and once they finally find it, they camp out in the desert, cook it, drink it, and trip on it; that's all that there is to it. There are so many unnecessary scenes that do absolutely nothing to move the barely existent plot along, and the very little that this film accomplishes could have been accomplished in a half-hour short film. The characters have very little depth to them and are not compelling at all, and the film is just, to put it simply, incredibly boring. I was excited to see this film because I am a fan of Michael Cera, but I am so drastically disappointed, and if, like me, you are only interested in seeing this film because you are a Michael Cera fan, then waste your time with this pointless film if and only if you're that desperate to see him because otherwise, this probably won't be worth your time. It might have been a bit better if the whole script had actually been written, but the improvisation technique works for some productions and not for others; this film falls into the latter category, to say the least.

This is a movie about 2 annoying self centered assholes and their dumb-ass 'friends' who put up with their crap for some unknown reason. The only interesting thing is that they are both complete self centered assholes in totally opposing ways. The supposed story line is almost forgotten half way through and it just becomes a pointless rambling dribble of nothing. It goes on and on for 98mins, and when it finishes you will think to yourself what the f was that. Honestly I cant believe how bad this movie is, its like its made by film students without any talent, money or ideas. Very badly edited too I might add, but that is the least of this stinker's problems. Avoid like the plague.

I haven't seen many Chilean movies. With Michael Cera in the cast i really wanted to watch Crystal Fairy, in particular because it was described as adventure/comedy and had no ambition of being a blockbuster.Now, i enjoy "small" movies, because they present stories, characters and feelings that are mostly ignored by Hollywood big productions. However, Crystal Fairy was less interesting that most of reality TV shows. It guided us through a couple of days in a life of Chilean youth and their American guests trying to score and consume a hallucinogenic cactus. So far, so good.The protagonists are those people that use their aura of being "different" to justify whatever they are doing. Michael Cera's character and his unlikely sidekick Crystal Fairy were leading in behaving like idiots. The locals were much more likable, yet i wouldn't want to spend more time than necessary with this motley crew.Overall, i'm not sure why i should be interested in a rather long search for a hallucinogen that would be consumed by the group and observe their less than memorable experience.