What Dreams May Come: Critic Reviews

If the film's morose sentimentality sidesteps ludicrousness, it's also not very dramatic.

All the weeping and hugging the characters do can't make up for the film's fatal lack of texture and psychological nuance.

It's not much, other than the vision thing.

`What Dreams May Come' is so breathtaking, so beautiful, so bold in its imagination!

As rare and odd, and visually breathtaking, as modern filmmaking gets!

In both concept and execution, they testify to painfully banal sensibilities.

Here's what's wrong with giant movie screens: You can fill them with extreme close-ups of Robin Williams' face!

A heaping serving of metaphysical gobbledygook wrapped in a physically striking package.

Few films delight the eye the way Vincent Ward's What Dreams May Come does!

A visual feast not to be passed up and bound to pack an emotional punch for many viewers!

Worthwhile for thoughtful teens.

Aside from having one of the worst titles in recent film memory, "What Dreams May Come" fails by trying to be all things to all people.

The film lurches ... toward greatness, dazzling the viewer with a spectacular view of heaven that is not only beautiful but also profoundly moving.

Has two things going for it--its spectacular, Academy Award-nominated special effects and the fact that it ends. Everything else about this ridiculous, three-hanky film sends it sharply into nightmare.

Visually, it's one of the great movies of its decade; dramatically, it's rather blurry and baffling.

This is what happens when you try to make a philosophical movie about spirituality without making anybody uncomfortable.

This ambitious afterlife romance introduces provoking themes, but Williams eventually leads the way back to familiar hackneyed ground. The grandiose art direction provides moments of wonder, but the muddled script gives them no raison d'etre.

It may push just the right buttons for some, but it had the perverse effect of making me want to wear black, read some Sartre and revel in a meaningless and empty universe.

The set design, artistic direction, special effects and cinematography of this film are all stunning.

For all its fabulous imagery and occasional dab-your-eyes moments, What Dreams May Come never rises to the wonderment of its own irresistible conviction -- that love can live beyond the grave.

This is still a very special movie experience that must be seen on a big screen, but it isn't quite the masterpiece it could have been.

Starting out as an exploration of the imagination, the film ends with an eloquent statement about compassion.

I stunned myself by really enjoying this one.

No Oscars to float around, but good work from all involved.

A treasure of the imagination; a spectrum that reminds us that anything is possible when you are making movies.