Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I had never heard of this movie and it just happened to come on while I was at home. From the very opening moment through the final credits, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The film continues to walk the fine line between real and fantasy, leaving the viewer guessing if it's a dream or not. Even the bits that are predictable are wonderful to see them happen anyway. The dialogue was very clever, and I found myself smiling the entire time. Seeing the may cameos by big-name stars like Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Kurt Russell and Ann Margaret was an added treat.I cannot recommend this movie highly enough!

I'll say this, the great thing about "Interstate 60" is the cast. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Cooper, Gary Oldman, even James Marsden fits the main role pretty well. Then that chick from the Power Rangers shows up and steams her scene up all to hell. Same for the fine redheaded lawyer and Ann Margaret (total fox). And then there's Kurt Russell, who walks away with the movie (as usual). Dude makes it look easy.It took me a bit to figure out why I didn't take to "Interstate 60", but here it is: it's hollow. Everyone's too good-natured, the mysticism gets old, and pieces fall just where they're supposed to. Happy coincidences feel manufactured. And by the end, everything's wrapped up with a pretty bow, tidied and orderly. And that's why I lost interest, way before the credits rolled. Not a bad movie, but ... not very good, either.5/10

This is a fantasy road type movie that takes place on a highway laden with a bag of tricks. It tries hard, but comes off as fluffy and hollow. There are some neat skits like the drug town and the lawyer town - but others were simply too cliché – the overly tiresome ads of his fairyland girlfriend for instance.The main problem is James Marsden – who attempts to be the lead character. Yes the script is pretty banal – but to be blunt, Marsden makes the movie boring – he exudes little character and energy. He's just a pretty face like the billboard ads he keeps gawking at.This movie is worth a peak on a dull night, but that's about it.

I bet, after watching this, you had some great feelings, however after a while it might fade away from your memory. MAN, it was about making one of the most thoughtful films and entertaining movies in the same time.. But sure, something got in the way !Originally, it is such a modern odyssey into the contemporary America, with all the lessons of this boy's trip (to learn about life and himself to make the hardest decision, and choose what he really wants to be), plus all the crazy sarcasm out of his very society as well (it's the interstate after all), showing a philosophical reading of life in general, through what could be a comic fantasy road movie. Though, and I hate this "though", the final result wasn't up to all of that.Firstly, it's the casting. (James Marsden) isn't suitable at all to play the lead role. He did nothing throughout the movie but putting the most provocative smile on his face, like it's an ad about a toothbrush !Secondly, it's the editing. Oh what a destroyer! The pace needed to be more sane. Many parts of the movie demanded more time to be understood, yet being slightly meditative was forbidden. The editor dealt with the movie as a comedy or adventure movie, to be totally unjust to the real philosophical nature of it. So, the episodes on the road became too rapid, too laconic, and too intensive. Maybe its writer / director (Bob Gale) believed that the swift cuts would deliver it less odd, or maybe he was forcing us to watch it more than once, or maybe he's like me not satisfied with this editing in the first place !!Thirdly, the directing. Sometime it's a bad omen when a story is directed by its own writer, where mostly something would be unseen for them. (Bob Gale) here nearly damaged his good idea when he made it in that fast pace, with a wooden lead, missing the very point. It looked like a Disney adventure for kids, or at its best as a feel good movie from the 1980s. But while it isn't none of both, it lost the deep sense of it, being not simple inasmuch as damn trivial. (Gale) just hackneyed the uniqueness of the story to make it easier, but to tell the truth, he manipulated it to the extent of being belittled !Look at the way (Gale) as a writer fabricates an action scene near the end, as if movies nowadays can't be made unless with an explosive car ! Part of the story or not, it seemed eventually a desperate attempt to appear more cool and commercial. It's great to speak profoundly, and look plain and attractive in the same time. But this movie sounded confused between both, and too afraid of being philosophical. So (Gale) abbreviated that side badly, like he was making a comedy or action. In fact, it could have been one great musical; at least, there, you might have the time to think of it better.I loved some of the lessons along the way. For instance, the museum of fake art; where the people are so blind, or so self-assured, to see the truth that this is the real deal, so sometimes the real thing is in front of us but we just don't, or don't want to, see it. I loved some of the characters too. Aside from (Christopher Lloyd) as (Ray) who wasn't magically portrayed as he should have been cinematically, there was (Chris Cooper)'s character (Bob Cody) who once was a lair, then now he's like a truth enforcer (the kind this life needs !) as the perfect anti-evil authority. He was the greatest sidekick, or rather rescuer, anyone dreams of. Add to that, some of the bitter irony, where (Gale) shows us exaggerated negative images of actual negative ones in the American society : the non-stoppable eater as the monster consumer, the doped up country as a dark futuristic America where drugs are legal, and the attorneys' city which's creative caricature that deserves a movie apart ! It didn't give itself the chance to be effective, being a movie that got no time for its wonderful subject, or its too many wild images, refusing to be anything but too ordinary flick, while deep down inside it wholly isn't.It's the most teaser-like Odyssey you can ever see.