An adaptation that can rightfully be called brilliant.

It's great unruly fun.

The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.

Just isn't funny enough to sustain the lunacy.

Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle.

This starry ensemble dazzles, but the film never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes, which are deeply moving.

Among the year's biggest disappointments.

Fails in a pretty spectacular manner but, to its everlasting credit, it goes down swinging and sometimes even connecting.

A crude, manic and embarrassingly unfunny satire that feels off from beginning to end.

Quite a spectacle, but the movie falls flat.

A weirdly stillborn experience.

Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't.

Vonnegut's brand of juvenile surrealism...doesn't age especially well...but it could hardly be worse served than to be brought to the screen with such ham-fisted literal-mindedness.

Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.