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      Human Highway

      1982 1 hr. 23 min. Comedy Drama List
      Reviews 53% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Goofy gas-station attendants (Neil Young, Russ Tamblyn) face disaster every day from a nearby nuclear power plant. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Although it is Neil Young's worst music video( :-) ) music still figures into the storyline of faulty humans and a faulty nuclear powerplant - with some cartoonish elements and occasional cardboard backgrounds the obviously low budget opus is quite uneven in pacing and plot developement... what there is of it. A bright spot is the band DEVO as clueless power plant workers - another is Dean Stockwell chewing up the scenery as (maybe) the Bad Guy. A thoroughly odd movie - it kind of makes you want to keep watching to see where it is going - and I am not sure it ever got there. While I found it due to my enjoyment of Neil Young's music ( and DEVO's!) I do not think they taught Dennis Hopper anything about filmmaking with this picture. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member HUMAN HIGHWAY (1982) is the best movie I have ever seen. I have not yet seen this movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Neil Young's film (he did co-direct) is utterly strange. Not sure how to describe it...perhaps a low-rent proto-Twin Peaks with musical numbers and a exaggerated sense of artifice? Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member For some reasin I had a VHS of this when I was a kid- all I really remember is someone driving through a desert and DEVO, of course! Well hey, Dennis Hopper? Dean Stockwell!? I think this calls for a re-watch! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Awful movie, but that was probably the point anyway (I hope). Worth watching though for the handful of scenes with Devo. The Neill Young/Devo jam session is one of the weirdest and most amazing things I've seen. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Don't get me wrong, this movie is terrible, but Neil Young is a man after my own heart. Despite spending the last 25 years in toiling away in mediocrity thinking he's brilliant. But I digress... Neil Young is working on a new album. It's a concept album about electric cars. Or his electric car. Whatever. It has groundbreaking videos like the one where he sticks ipod earbuds into an apple and lipsyncs to his song. Or the one where he's in the back of a limo pretending to be a businessman. (You know he's a business man because he's wearing a suity AND on the phone in the back of the limo) and one were he's driving his car and his dog just so happens to be there in the back, looking confused. The point, as they say, is that Neil Young is an uncompromising, annoying weirdo. Sometimes, like say Nick Cave and Tom Waits that can work out for you and you can branch out into other mediums, and keep making brilliant music. That has not worked out for Neil Young. The movie opens with the lead singer of Devo (cap'n fuckface) is in a baby mask, has a stomach gut, an annoying high pitched voice, and a shovel (god. Who shovels things nowadays?) and sings a parody of Blowing in the Wind. I mean blowin'. The ing blew away! After some apocalypse. Flashback to a life of when Neil Young decided to make a nonsensical acid trip of a movie, and watch a coke addled Dennis Hopper play with knives and nearly kill one of the actress (It's true!). Also Devo is in it, glowing red from radioactivity, and they sing and dance. Not to mention that it ends with a, what half hour dream? A movie that's an hour and a half long, shitty, nonsensical, looks like a long episode of Peewee's playhouse (which cap'n fuckface would go on to compose for, as well as blow Wes Anderson) has a half hour dream sequence. That my friends. Takes balls. For sheer oddity this movie is fucking amazing. It's terrible. But TERRIBLY entertaining as well. Mostly for being terrible. Also, Neil Young is pretty unrecognizable as Napolean Dynamite in this film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Ben Kenigsberg New York Times Mr. Young's slapdash style, which suggests a Roger Corman movie crossed with dinner theater, extends to the clanking sound effects and flagrantly fake backdrops. Apr 16, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Goofy gas-station attendants (Neil Young, Russ Tamblyn) face disaster every day from a nearby nuclear power plant.
      Director
      Neil Young, Dean Stockwell
      Executive Producer
      Elliot Rabinowitz
      Screenwriter
      Neil Young, Jeanne Fields, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, James Beshears
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jul 22, 2016