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Go Further (2004) Rank 5 Reviews
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Harvey S. Karten
As the bus proceeds south, the doc–which thankfully is anything but a talkingheads bore–runs into a selection of colorful people, because that's what road movie are all about. There's a guy who sells worm tea, and discusses how the thousands of worms on ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Harvey S. Karten
Toronto Star
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and organic farming? Plenty, if you hop on the bus of activist/actor Woody Harrelson and his crew of Merry Hempsters - including a yoga instructor, a raw-food chef and a reformed junk-food addict who swears he's ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Toronto Star
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Filmmaker Ron Mann and actor/activist Woody Harrelson have followed up their hilarious 2000 documentary Grass with the equally amusing Go Further. While Grass - which could just as well have been titled Reefer Sanity - used humor to put over its ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
A highly entertaining form of ecological agitprop--radical but accessible. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Film Threat (Tim Merrill)
Filmmaker Ron Mann and actor/activist Woody Harrelson have followed up their hilarious 2000 documentary "Grass" with the equally amusing Go Further. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Film Threat (Tim Merrill)
Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
A message film that makes entertaining diversions out of environmental didacticism. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
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Jam! Movies (Jim Slotek)
A needed dose of levity for the eco-movement. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Jam! Movies (Jim Slotek)
eFilmCritic.com (Jason Whyte)
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
...a crowd pleaser in its purest form... ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
San Francisco Chronicle (Walter Addiego)
Actor Woody Harrelson is in his full activist mode in this low-key and loose documentary. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Walter Addiego)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Noted environmentalist/vegetarian Woody Harrelson takes a road trip with his unabashed hippie friends in Go Further, a crude documentary that follows his crew from Oregon (via bikes and a bio-diesel bus) to southern California, proselytizing all the ...read the complete Go Further movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Meant to be a romp in the old Ken Kesey tradition, it's more like a dull drive with a bunch of leftover flower children. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
This yeasty, yogic, sweetly yappy film could change your life, perhaps starting with the 'butter substitute' on your popcorn. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
Most of the points addressed are familiar, but they do need to be repeated again and again because it's too easy to fall back into the comfort of careless consumption ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
digitallyOBSESSED.com (Chuck Aliaga)
Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
Los Angeles Times (Kevin Crust)
Amusing and informative. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kevin Crust)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
A warmly spirited travel diary of a movie. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Variety (Joe Leydon)
Unquestioning agitprop for vegetarianism, hemp fiber, solar energy, sustainable organic living and other causes espoused by actor-activist Woody Harrelson. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Variety (Joe Leydon)
The Hollywood Reporter (Michael Rechtshaffen)
An agreeably goofy road movie. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at The Hollywood Reporter (Michael Rechtshaffen)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
[Director Ron Mann] devotes little time to really exploring the issues, leaving the film a patchwork of assertions that, while they may be true, have to be taken on faith. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Portland Oregonian (Marc Mohan)
Overall, the trip successfully embodies the spirit of the original Magic Bus man, Ken Kesey, whom these modern-day pranksters visit in a poignant scene filmed just months before his death. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Portland Oregonian (Marc Mohan)
CineScene.com (Howard Schumann)
The Onion A.V. Club
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Goes down smoothly. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
By the time the tour is over, it's hard not to admire Harrelson for embracing easily mocked ideals and suggesting by example that it's better to be part of a small, personal solution than do nothing because the problem is so vast and intimidating. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
New York Times (Dana Stevens)
Go Further will galvanize viewers who, in Mr. Kesey's words, are already 'on the bus,' but for those who have not yet climbed aboard (or who got off long ago), it's an agreeably shaggy portrait of a thriving subculture. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at New York Times (Dana Stevens)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
so riddled with cliches and old information that it's hard to muster much interest ...read the complete Go Further movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
The New York Times (Dana Stevens)
Mr. Harrelson seems appealingly goodhearted, but his naïve idealism leaves him always on the edge of self-parody. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at The New York Times (Dana Stevens)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Whether Mann's film will make a difference, however, is another question. He devotes little time to really exploring the issues, leaving the film a patchwork of assertions that, while they may be true, have to be taken on faith. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Village Voice (Jorge Morales)
Go Further meanders--narratively as well as geographically--all over the map. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Village Voice (Jorge Morales)
MovieWeb (Dodd Alley)
New York Daily News (Robert Dominguez)
A one-sided soapbox for Harrelson's eco-friendly prattle. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at New York Daily News (Robert Dominguez)
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Go Further may be preaching to the converted, but this easygoing documentary promoting an 'alternative lifestyle' -- living without biotechnologically processed foods -- goes down smoothly. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Aimed at the willing to be converted, though not the sophisticated, Go Further risks placing entertainment above complexity. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
The Onion (A.V. Club) (Nathan Rabin)
Like much of Mann's work, it's an unabashed love letter to the counterculture. But this time out, Mann has made an unintentionally vicious satire of the fuzzyheaded self-intoxication and impracticality of the progressive left, a film that's far more ...read the complete Go Further movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Nathan Rabin)
eye WEEKLY (Kim Linekin)
Harrelson's environmental truths are taken as self-evident, and his private life off-limits, which makes for a doc that's neither educational nor especially compelling. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at eye WEEKLY (Kim Linekin)
LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Without the actor’s name and amiably demented grin, Go Further would be an unspeakably tedious and preachy travelogue. With them, this insupportably long home movie, unremarkably directed by Ron Mann, is merely dull. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Seattle Times (Erik Lundegaard)
You want to yell 'Focus!' not at the projectionist in the booth but at the activists on the screen. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at Seattle Times (Erik Lundegaard)
eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
The tour wanders about, rambling from issue to issue like a stoner easily distracted by a bag of cookies. ...read the complete Go Further movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
User Reviews
by michael on October 10, 2009
This documentary of Woody's road trip is a good introduction to the many environmental problems we face. I hope it encouraged people to investigate further.
It's unfortunate the movie spent so much time documenting Steve's transformation. Steve went from ...
by Tom Mayter on January 25, 2009
Here is a very informative and amusing documentary with a cause. Woody Harrelson is the ...
by C on June 25, 2008
This is a fantastic and inspiring movie. The people in it are relateable, the music is great, and the message is timeless. It is funny, but not cheesy, the message is vocalized but not preachy. Ron Mann is a great director who made a motivating and ...
by Christian J. Bech... on August 22, 2005
After reading reviews on Amazon about this movie I was prepared to be disappointed. This is hands down the best movie I have seen that tries to put an entire organic way of living into a holistic framework. I have been disappointed in the past where ...
by Sean D. Stutzman ... on June 30, 2005
For a fat carnivore like myself, I found this exremely motivating. It isn't preachy. It isn't super political. It's just some basic truths and ideas presented. I've always been pretty ignorant about environmental things and didn't have the will power ...
by Bwitching Heart on August 03, 2007
This movie is for the every day Joe and Josie who are more concerned with putting food on the table for their families, rather than if it was microbiotic. Its not a get on your soap box movie, its a "this is a journey we took with like-minded folk ...
by Lucius on June 20, 2005
Unfortunately, in this case the medium drowns out the message. Ostensibly the story of Woody Harrelson's bio-organic powered bus trip/college speaking tour of the West Coast to promote "environmental awareness" and "simple organic living," this ...
by Robin Simmons on April 21, 2005
Woody Harrelson travels down the West Coast in a huge but environmentally friendly RV spreading the mesage of "walking lightly on the planet" and using all things hemp.
Kind of amateurish and boring, and very 60s (I almost expected Peter Fonda to ride ...
by Chris Roberts "Ch... on June 18, 2005
This film basically consists of keeping Woody Harrelson company as he rages against the machine. And while this is not useless or a waste of time, it does not make for good cinema. Besides technical problems such as bad sound and lighting, these people ...
by Paul b Burns "ama... on October 01, 2007
This movie is a spoof -- he is the enviro hippy, yoga, organic Borat . Read why! It was insulting.
The multiple long scenes of them hold hands at the ocean were suppose to be funny + they were all the same. The bike riding footage is sporadic and ...
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