The Road to Wellville

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john d This is a very funny and at the same time cringey movie in the way it pushes the envelope on morality, sexuality and vapid culture. It plays like a blake Edwards farce crossed with a period drama and comes off beautifully. The writing is very clever and the performers are obviously having a blast. I love it and have watched it several times. That it's based on real life characters makes it stranger than fiction. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/24/25 Full Review Caleb C A Well-Dressed Fever Dream With Nowhere to Go The Road to Wellville is a film that looks great on the surface but collapses under the weight of its own eccentricity. Set in a lavishly recreated early 20th-century sanitarium, it aims to satirize the era’s health craze but ends up as a chaotic, exhausting fever dream — all noise, no clarity. Anthony Hopkins is miscast as Dr. Kellogg, delivering an over-the-top performance that never finds its footing. The rest of the cast struggles too, caught between caricature and confusion. Only the costumes and production design earn top marks, giving the illusion of prestige in a film that offers little emotional or narrative payoff. Any attempts at satire are buried beneath relentless weirdness. The story meanders, the tone wobbles, and the entertainment value is virtually nonexistent. A brief flicker of resolution in the final scenes — the sanitarium in flames, the Lightbodys’ escape — isn’t enough to justify the slog. In the end, The Road to Wellville is a well-dressed misfire: visually rich but ultimately hollow. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/13/25 Full Review R F Loved it!! These days, movies and shows are so lame. This one has classic tone and very entertaining and funny. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/19/25 Full Review Keith S Just have fun watching an all star cast in a semi true story that includes crazy contraptions, crazy ideas & crazy characters. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/06/25 Full Review Many P It should have been a great movie. But it was unwatchable with a plot that seems to focus on body wastes, body parts and none of it funny or interesting. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/30/25 Full Review DeAnna M It seemed like it was tying too hard to be an old tymie slapstick comedy. But it just ended up being painfully over acted. A waste of a good cast. It’s a good subject matter. It could have been a really a good move. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/21/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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