content: Damn! When I went into this, I figured "Okay, Terry Gilliam, great director, Johnny Depp, good actor, should be funny and at least all right. .... It is funny in the beginning, especcially Depp's drugged-out warning "We can't stop here, this is bat country!", but after about 20 minutes or so you realize that it's just one drawn-out drug trip and the only question on your mind (well, my mind anyway) is "When will it end?" To Depp's credit, he does do a good acting job under the circumstances (I hardly even recognized him with his bald head), but the story was just bad and Terry Gilliam has a tendency to keep his films going long after they should have ended (in the case of this one, it should have stopped when he got the script). All in all this was a most disappointing movie experience; if it came out a couple years after the novel did, it probably would have done well, but not in today's world. Sorry.