CRYSTAL FAIRY AND THE MAGICAL CACTUS no stars

A drugs movie, (the title kind of gives it away), and a road movie filmed in Chile by the Chilean director Sebastian Silva but starring Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffmann as the young Americans out to experience the ultimate high. Like its stars, the film basically meanders along with the director's brothers for company and is apparently based on a real experience Silva had. Both Hoffmann and Cera are excellent playing the kind of people you might jump off a high building to avoid and the film itself isn't very pleasant. In fact it feels like something of an ego trip and one that is being made up as it goes along. Personally I found it just the kind of drugs movie to put you off drugs for life which I don't think was the director's intention.