Synopsis
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
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Cast
- Brad DourifAlien
- Donald WilliamsAstronaut Commander
- Ellen BakerAstronaut physician
- Franklin Chang-DiazAstronaut Plasma Physicist
- Shannon LucidAstronaut biochemist
- Michael McCulleyAstronaut pilot
- Roger DiehlMathematician
- Martin LoMathematician
- Ted SweetserMathematician
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Herzog's strangely beautiful film has marvelous music and hypnotic imagery. A documentary for stoners and people who are that way naturally, it is a cautionary tale for wishful thinkers. - 80
Variety
Should stand with the likes of "Fata Morgana" and "Lessons of Darkness" as one of helmer's best efforts at smudging the lines between docu and fiction. - 80
Salon
Not a major Herzog work or one that will draw a large audience, but a must-see for those who suspect (as I do) that he's one of the greatest talents now working in this medium. - 80
The New York Times
There is pleasure in such useless beauty, of course, and pleasure too in drifting with the jellyfish amid the wild blue yonder of a great filmmaker’s imagination. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Werner Herzog's self-proclaimed "science-fiction fantasy" is a meticulously constructed fiction made from a combination of real-life footage repurposed in ways a conventional documentarian couldn't imagine. - 67
The A.V. Club
The Wild Blue Yonder has a small message to deliver about the importance of ecological conservation, but mostly, it's an excuse to cut together mesmerizing undersea and outer-space photography while a hypnotic soundtrack drones on. - 63
New York Daily News
A meandering, amusing trifle, Werner Herzog's latest film is as cheekily flaky as his recent "Grizzly Man" was sharply down-to-earth. - 60
Village Voice
Though occasionally striking, the footage doesn't pack the evocative punch Herzog intends, and segments that should be lyrical mind trips only result in overstretched longueurs.
