Truly Dreadful Film

Great Film overall

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

James Cann in a rare simpleton role. He plays a guy who just got out of jail and will go with anything. He just drifts with a guy who gets shot but gives him some information that could land him some money. Then he gets picked up by the beautiful barefoot Sally Kellerman. But he discovers that she is a psycho.He contacts the brother of the guy who gave him the information. And the brother (played by the portly Peter Boyle), James Cann and the brothers wife (Louise Lasser) embark on a road trip to get the money.But a sinister looking vehicle is following them.It has so many good bits. The dialogs are fantastic and memorable. All these meandering 70s movies were awesome. Slither, 92 in a Shade and Five Easy Pieces. Somehow they celebrate the possibilities of life but it's all quite depressing in the end. Human nature messes up everything.I loved this film. I watched it without subtitles. So I had to listen hard to what they were saying. Some of the scenes were laugh out loud funny.The film has a great action sequence towards the end. It is a bittersweet road film. One which makes you confused about what to think about it.(8/10)

An ex-con stumbles across America, meeting one oddball character after another, while being pursued by a mysterious black minivan. The characters are wonderful - oddball without being exaggerated or overdone. The plot is engrossing. It's a wonderful piece of 70s anarchy. It is very clear that this must have been a big influence on the Coen brothers movies. That combination of deadpan observation of personal quirk and absurdity, combined with violence and a twisting plot. The Big Lebowski is a clear example of where you'll this film's influence. All the performances are great, with Sally Kellerman being her usual unforgettable self.

Off-beat kooky film that's great with relaxed and funny performances from James Caan & Sally Kellerman in the leads. Howard Zieff also directed HEARTS OF THE WEST 3 years later (wonderful flick). Road flick, dangerous, great supporting cast including Peter Boyle (so great in JOE, TAXI DRIVER, and THE CANDIDATE and Louise Lasser - always interesting). From the opening with Richard B. Schull, James Caan is in a state of perpetual paranoia in the plains and it's like a Jonathan Demme film crossed with David Lynch with a touch of Woody Allen. An 8 out of 10. Best performance = Peter Boyle.Seek this little gem out if you're interested in hip 70's films that didn't make the bucks and really wasn't seen by many Americans. Terrific stuff with a laid-back yet keen sensibility.

I usually either don't like, or hate, action comedies - though Slither isn't one entirely. But, as far as it IS an action one, it's the best one ever made, and (to me) about the most underrated comedy of ANY category. Most comedies or dramas about cops and robbers (or about criminals, period) promise to be about the CHARACTERS more than anything, but this one keeps that promise completely. I do have one complaint about the Sally Kellerman character, and that's that, in most of the film, she was a sort of WOULD-BE maniacal character, and that one scene of her actually holding up a diner spoils that in a way. But at least that scene gave James Caan the chance to do what he did best in the movie, which was acting horrifed or disgusted by everything that happened around him. Somehow, this doesn't wear thin anywhere in the movie, especially in his scenes with Kellerman. I usually don't like crude dialogue when it's there just for the sake of it, but the laundromat scene, where she grosses him out with her talk, is done just right, and that's why it's funny. I have what is probably a real minority opinion about the film version of MASH, and that's that it works EXCEPT for the "Burns and Houlihan" scenes, which (to me) were a real waste of both her and Duvall (including that hugely famous scene). All I can say is that anyone wanting to see Sally Kellerman in a FUNNY role should see Slither instead. The same is true of Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser, and all the character actors in smaller parts, all the way to the ones in the bingo hall scene. I don't know why most other comedies of this category can't at least APPROACH this one.