Such a frustrating disappointment

Pretty Good

Absolutely Brilliant!

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I thought this movie was pretty good, actually. Sure it was kinda weird, especially at the end credits, but even then it gave it a very different touch. Sure it might of been a little melodramatic with the relationship between Coleridge and Wordsworth, but I bet there is also quite a bit of melodrama in the lives' of those who hate this movie. However, this movie does deserve very different veiws because it has a hard time knowing what it wants to be, but also, it deserves praise for trying to explain a very complicated subjects in very complicated times.And I thought the end credits were actually one of the best I've ever seen. It shows that it doesn't take itself too seriously. I think the review posted on this site is ridiculous... it just shows how the reviewer has no patience for something they don't understand right away.

I wandered lonely as a cow into the video store. . . and then I rented this film. Alas. I think the director was trying to channel the spirit of Ken Russell while he was making this film. Unfortunately, it was only during the last 15 minutes that the movie took a full bodied lurch into unintentionally comic melodramatic absurdity. With its utter disregard for the historic record, "Pandaemonium" attempts to do for England's greatest Romantic poets what "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" did for the Arthurian legends - but (sadly) without the wit or the humor.Why is it that so many films about poets fail to convey any essence of poetry? Perhaps if you don't know anything about Wordsworth or Coleridge (or you don't care) you might be satisfied with "Pandaemonium," but I find it impossible to recommend a film that slanders the former while portraying the latter as a slathering dope fiend.(I did enjoy the "Xanadu" music video shown over the ending credits - now that was truly trashy.)

If I had wasted another 1-1/2 hours of my life, I'm pretty sure I would have rated Pandaemonium (2001) a 1/5. It's that bad.The movie purports to tell the stories of the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, considered the fathers of the English Romantic literature movement. This happens to be an area I studied as my major in college. Pandaemonium bore so little resemblance to the actual stories that it might as well have been a film noir.Inept acting and stupefying camera tricks add to the general mess.Whoever is responsible for this piece of junk decided to represent STC and WW as extreme late 18th-century hippies, which insults their memories as well as that of hippies. Unlike some of their later colleagues, such as Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, STC and WW were conventional men with superb literary gifts. The movie further cultivates the myth of STC as a drug addict, a facade he maintained to add mystery to his reputation.Unlike some bad movies, though, Pandemonium's not even fun to watch.Run, do not walk, away.

I've been a movie fan for only a year, and have seen dozens in that time. This is by far the most exciting and memorable movie I've seen. Before seeing the movie I had no interest in English poets and knew little about them. After seeing the movie, I was entranced and had to find out more.The movie tells the story through the laudanum delusions of Coleridge. Linus Roache is awesome in the role and the weaving of his poetry and his weird and scary visions is breathtakingly original. Coleridge and the Wordsworths lived 200 years ago and yet they seemed of our time. Using drugs, craving new experiences and sensations, they are like young people of today, scandalising their elders and shocking polite society. The camera techniques are spectacular, as are the costumes, the locations and the editing, as you would expect from a production connected with the BBC. Watch and enjoy - you will not be disappointed!