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A comedy is directed and co-written by Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, follows a man who is lost in an uninhabited island. One day, he comes across a dead body and then they make friends and have a wonderful trip to go home.
If you stick with it, there's a chance it'll grow on you as it grew on me - and you'll be rewarded with maybe the best ending of any movie so far this year.
Viewers who aren't intrinsically opposed to toilet humor may actually find this curiosity pretty funny -- and, thanks to the conviction of its lead actors, sometimes weirdly poignant.
An unusual tragicomedy that is not for everyone. However, if you look beyond flatulence, excrement and erections, you will find a very emotional story full of captivating moments. [Full review in Spanish]
Loneliness, arrested development and the slow disintegration of the imagination are all topics of interest to the directors, but they approach each with only a cool level of ironic detachment that becomes unbearable after 90 minutes.
The third act dissolves back into emo indulgence. But before then, you may just have found yourself briefly watching in wonderment, only disturbed by the nagging feeling that this is all very wrong.
This movie is every bit as whimsical as [Jonze and Gondry's] work but lacks the minimal plotting and strong intellectual component that gives their flights of fancy shape and substance.