Save the Green Planet 2003

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Punk graphics and a snaking camera add zest to the story, which is alternately heartbreaking, suspenseful, and darkly funny. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Like any roller-coaster ride, it may make you queasy, but you'll never be bored. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: There's a very human story within the one involving possible space aliens. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Save The Green Planet has a free-ranging mood, mixing tragedy and comedy irregularly, but Jeong's film is equally free with genre, and entertains its audience openly before pouring on the astringent. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Unlike just about every other American action movie, this film knows how to embrace momentum without sacrificing challenges to the mind or the soul. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Makes you wonder just what new talent the increasingly inventive and idiosyncratic Korean cinema is going to give us next. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Somehow, Jang manages to meld shocking sadism, slapstick laughs and a poignant political plea into a head-spinning trip that, it seems safe to say, is like none you've taken before. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A dog named Earth and aliens both domestic and imported rotate around one another in this self-consciously freaky, rambunctiously goofy genre hybrid from South Korea. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Entertaining, visually inventive and truly out-there. Read more

Murray Whyte, Toronto Star: Demented yet somehow humane, Save The Green Planet is a visually ingenious hybrid melding horror, black comedy, revenge thriller and science fiction into an unpredictable, cohesive whole. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: The film oscillates between wild humour, suspense, horror and pathos, sometimes all in one shot. It's quite something. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: Works on a variety of levels, from gruesome slapstick comedy through social critique to genuinely chilling Grand Guignol. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Mad conspiracy rules in Korean writer-director Jang Jun-hwan's snazzy, playful, somewhat gory, often hilarious, and generally unpredictable first feature. Read more