A Journey to Planet Sanity (2013) User Reviews

Easy AND breezy, hmmm....

[placebo213 · 6 December 2013]

I thought this movie was going to be a lot like Religulous (which I did like) but it was definitely more... theatrical? Meaning there were a lot of moving/sentimental moments that I did not expect. It deals with paranormal, crop circles, aliens, ghosts (not explored very well though), voodoo, God, doomsday, etc.

I learned to love each of these special characters and I think Blake Freeman takes the viewer on a fun, silly, random, and meaningful journey. It brought a lot of new perspective to me on how we live our lives. I know, this is very strange commentary for this particular movie but when you see, you'll understand why.

Any criticisms would be for the cinematography I guess. It's sometimes guerrilla style shooting, which is understandable, but in a lot of places it doesn't seem to flow too easily or transition well. It's kind of like those adventures on Jackass. It often switches from home-video style to theatrical style which can be kind of confusing, but I took it for the better because it KEPT my attention. It's VERY EASY to say I was never bored or looking at my phone. I cared about where the characters went and what happened to them.

Definitely something I enjoyed and would recommend.

So impressed!!

[emilytrosclair · 10/10 · 4 September 2019]

This was sooo good! I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it! It was hilarious, yet emotional at times. It was raw and genuine, yet completely over the top at times. I had so much fun watching their journey! You really fall in love with Leroy and Blake. The other characters all add to the humor in their own unique way, with their diverse personalities all clashing together. There was never a dull moment and I was in it from the first 5minutes and never did I get taken out of it. I could say so much more, but would be giving spoilers! I really liked the trailer, but I didn't expect to love this sooo much! Truly impressed! Very well done and highly recommend !

Hypocrisy - Bummer!

[Francis_Unger · 6/10 · 28 October 2016]

SPOILER alert:

I really liked where this was going but got pretty bummed out at the end.

You made it a central theme that you were rescuing Leroy from the grasp of fakers and scammers. All the while, this documentary (with so much potential) ended by pulling the biggest scam of the film - pretend to be a French painter. This time around the victims were obviously the young employed citizens of Los Angeles who were too stupid to research the guy.

What did Leroy learn from scamming I would ask? With a bit more training Leroy could find his own unique style.

What could have been.....

Hope to see more of your work. Sincerely- Frank

The most ironic fake documentary ever>

[immaculusvonnorton · 1/10 · 25 October 2016]

I was pretty stunned to see the other reviews here working from the premise that this was in fact a genuine documentary. While the people and beliefs mocked in the film are often far-fetched, none more so than this movie itself. That anyone would believe this is real is as laughable as anything LeRoy ever believed, perhaps more so. Sadly, it wasn't just the other two reviewers who got it wrong. Reviews from CBS to Huffington Post reviewed this film with the same flawed and naive premise. In a brief search only the LA Times managed to see through the inauthenticity of the film. Without examining the claims mocked in the 'documentary' we can see that the film itself is a trap for well-meaning but gullible people looking to gain kinship and identity by confirming their biases with any information that does so, no matter how ridiculous. Team Lazy Skeptic is now every bit as irrational and easily manipulated as Team Tinfoil Hat. The irony that a movie highlighting gullibility has itself duped so many of the gullible is either completely genius on Blake Freeman's part, or completely disheartening as a portrayal of how gullibility, certainty and self-righteousness are often simultaneously present in our culture. But since Freeman hasn't called out the gullible fans of his half- witted circus of debunking, it is probably the case that even he doesn't see how ironic it all is. I look forward to seeing this as a Friday Night movie in the near future, right after 'Ow My Balls!'.

When frat meets cuckoo

[pierre-mangeol · 5/10 · 27 February 2016]

Theme of the journey is in principle interesting, but it is very loosely treated.

You put a bunch or poorly educated people who create a whole imaginary world around them, because obviously they did not manage to reach the dream life they wanted when they were kids and you put them in front of a camera. Of course they make fool of themselves, their ego shouting all over the place that they want to be considered, whatever it takes. The film director seems very much happy that they give the show, not trying a single minute to be understanding, quite the contrary. Summum is reached when he gathers two of these chumps, which of course ends up in a fight of cuckoos. Easy and lazy.

After explaining how much psychs, voodoo, and other proclaimed experts fool people and make money out of them, the movie end up in a big painting sale, where the film director is delighted in showing how much he can fool people buying pieces he painted with his penis...

Of course on the way one poor guy is helped for the "ooooo that's so sweet"-effect, but the aftertaste of this movie is rather bitter. Too bad good ingredients were there.

At the end this is not a must see and current IMDb rating is difficult to understand.

Just another form of exploiting Leon

[berg-74532 · 26 February 2018]

Unemployed filmmaker does to 68 year old food delivery man exactly what fake psychics and alien abduction insurance sales people do to Leon, but worse under guise of helping him. Man you have got to feel bad for the poor unemployed filmmaker sipping coffee on on his glass enclosed balcony on the beach somewhere in southern California. Leon did not ask for his help but must have expected when it was offered. But all he got is another douche exploiting him. Another 20 something walking around telling everyone how stupid they are while giving the impression they are helping. I don't believe psychics are real and they are evil people making a buck off of people in need just like this jack ass. Don't watch this self indulgent look at how great I'm for helping this poor stupid old man. Physics suck, useless insurance sales people suck, and you suck. If you really want to help people like double your tip next time he comes with food. What you don't do is offer help and do nothing but show how tough his life and leave him used once again

Hucksters and hoaxster all, including the documentary

[recklessron · 2/10 · 15 June 2020]

If you think that you can prove someone didn't see something 20 years ago by proving that today they aren't the most articulate of people then this movie is for you. Concrete proof is simply stating that the person is not credible today. No need to consider if the experience caused them to have mental problems or if having mental problems is a necessity to see things other don't. Neither of those two possibilities exist in the world of this film-maker. He searches for loons and then proclaims everything is a hoax because... look at this loon. He "debunks" everything from UFO sightings to crop circles to abductions to psychics simply by finding someone that he can ridicule and stating that is proof. No science is used only opinions when it comes to debunking everything. Since the military of many nations claim to have seen UFOs it is amazing how he believes he can "prove" they don't exist by going to a UFO convention in Roswell and interviewing some colourful people. Then, in the finale of the film, he scams a bunch of people into buy some art pieces they have made by conning them into thinking the artist is French. More "proof" of everything being a scam. The real scam is getting this film to be rated more than 3 stars.