Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

fred here I watched this 20 years ago and it still is memorable. Stephen Baldwin is underrated and gives a stellar performance. It actually has a great quirky comedy script and played to the hilt by all actors. I have been trying to find this to watch and it is rare and not at redbox. He is an inventor trying to create a biodegradable sunblock for the army in his backyard in Arizona desert.I watched this 20 years ago and it still is memorable. Stephen Baldwin is underrated and gives a stellar performance. It actually has a great quirky comedy script and played to the hilt by all actors. I have been trying to find this to watch and it is rare and not at redbox. He is an inventor trying to create a biodegradable sunblock for the army in his backyard in Arizona desert

sexytail The beginning of the 90s brought many "quirky" and "off-beat" independent films, a particular sub-genre of which is the semi-spiritual desert crime movie. Others of note are "Wild at Heart", "From Dusk Til Dawn", and to a certain extent "Natural Born Killers". Good films like those spawned junk like "Highway 666", "Destiny Turns on the Radio" and this ineptly surreal anti-masterpiece "Under The Hula Moon". It's a comedy that aims for a certain emotional tone, attains it, but keeps going to the point of irritation. While the pursuit across the spirit-world of the desert and the casting of Chris Penn are good ideas, the film is not dirty enough or hard enough to be a good crime movie, and isn't focused enough on laughs to really be a comedy. I won't blow the ending, but let's just say it's bad. The film is basically a bad side effect of genre-cancer. This is the dregs of indie-mania.

malo218 I started watching it, and couldn't stop. I don't know if I wanted it to get better, or just wanted to see where it would go next. It was funny, and still, not a good movie, or a bad one. I know when it was over, I felt like something had been stolen from me. It had some inklings of Raising Arizona, but not as funny. There were some "hidden" funny things, but you have to pay attention. That's not always easy with this movie. A few times I wanted to turn it off, but like looking at a car accident while it's happening, it's bad, but you can't look away. I would recommend it, if you have some mind candy time to kill. Or perhaps just want to turn your brain to mush while eating cheetos and drinking strawberry quik.

Veronica Lake Let me just say that this film is not to everyone's taste but others will love it. I've seen it four times. Betty ( Lloyd, who is always fabulous, does a mean American accent here) and Buzz (Stephen Baldwin at his best) play a perfectly suited couple who live in a trailer and dream of big things. When Buzz's brother (Chris Penn) turns up things go haywire. Chris Penn gives a scarily intense performance. He is really great and gives a violent edge to this hilarious and quirky comedy. So if you like your movies unique and original. Under the Hula Moon is for you.