Perfect cast and a good story

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This is one of those crazy counter culture flicks that some how got backing in the 1970s.It rambles. It fumbles.But it's strangely hypnotic.For me there isn't much of a plot. Maybe because it was directed for pot heads, I am missing something. I don't really get the life of Christ reference really. Except that Greaser does some healing. And makes some references to Jerusalem, but it's all way too obtuse and silly to be taken as a true satire or even a referential film.Life of Brian was so much better. The movie loses it's hypnosis about 20 minutes into it and become boring...again, maybe because I'm not high...or maybe because the 70s are long gone and they weren't that fun or kooky to begin with.A lot of these wacky 70s films are just not so wacky today. The hippies are retiring and the world is going to hell. No time for meaningless drivel.

Greaser's Palace (1972) ** (out of 4) I know that there are people out there who really, really enjoy this movie as its cult following appears to get bigger and bigger each year but I can't say I'm one of them. After hearing so many things about this film I had to try it for myself but I never really got drawn into the movie so for the most part it left me bored. The film is pretty much a stoner's (or alternative) look at the life of Jesus Christ but set in the Old West. A zoot suit wearing man is going through a small town where he heals the sick and brings the dead back to life. This doesn't sit too well with the town bad guy. That's pretty much the only bit of "plot" that I could pick up because this movie certainly succeeds at being strange and surreal. I think the likes of someone like Bunuel would even have a hard time following everything that goes on in this thing. The humor isn't in your face funny but more often than not it's just laid back and really comes off without having to use any punchlines. Something, or almost anything, will happen and you either laugh or you don't. The film really doesn't push too hard for laughs so I think it's really going to depend on whether or not the viewer can really get into the film from the start. I was unable to so that certainly explains why I wasn't really going along with the thing. I certainly respect the attempt but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Look quick for Robert Downey, Jr. playing a molested boy.

Yes, as all the other comments will tell you, this is an absurd, bizarre film, with Jesus in a purple zoot suit parachuting into the old west and some strange religious allegory going on that I never manage to piece together. However - what amazes me every time I watch it (and I've watched it a couple dozen times) is how visually sumptuous it is, how lovingly the scenery and characters are fondled by the camera in this crude, weird story. Describing what happens doesn't really do it justice, because it ends up being more than the sum of its parts. I first saw it in a theater in 1975, never forgot it, and when it came out on DVD I really fell in love with it. Some of my cult favorites like Eraserhead have faded a little over the years, but this one continues to astonish me every time.

When I first saw this film, it was at 2am on a Sunday morning. Half awake, staring blindly into the screen, what I saw defied description. The story of Jesus Christ told in an Old West setting with Jesus' character wearing a zoot suit? Count me in!The dialogue is extremely non-sequitur, and the characters are hilarious! Herve' Villachaise is wonderful as a condensed cowboy married to a 6-foot tall man named "Petunia".I highly recommend this movie simply on the basis that it is so bizarre (even though Greaser doesn't think he's bizarre enough). Oh, and knowing that Robert Downey directed this puts a few things into perspective as well (yes, that's Robert Downey Sr., as in Father of R D Jr.)