Fresh
Helps us to dive headfirst into both the journey and period and decide for ourselves whether to take it or leave it.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s
2011 · 1h 47m · R
Documentary, Music
Directed by
Alison Ellwood
,
Alex Gibney
Overview
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Records a lot of silly misbehavior but only minor merriment.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
It's the movie "Yellow Submarine'' should have been but didn't know how to be.
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Fresh
"Magic Trip" is neither as magic nor as trippy as the culture quake that it documents, but it's a valuable flashback and a pleasurable contact high.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
This is the story of sunny, casual West Coast visionary utopians, told from the inside out.
Paul de Barros, Seattle Times
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