Right, well, as you can guess from pretty much any marketing material from this film, this is a very very strange movie. The backstory slowly gets unfolded and explained throughout the movie, but even at the end of it, it is insane. Still, somehow, Gilliam manages to keep it all together and understandable, even believable at parts. In the end, the story doesn't really leave you with anything at all; it's more about the journey than anything else.
Heath Ledger's last performance, however, is only "good", and hardly as memorable as the Joker. Still, the other actors play their parts wonderfully (I especially liked the guy playing the Devil), and the cameos from Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp to fill in Ledger's missing bits make a surprising amount of sense.
In a sentence:
An insane movie that nonetheless stays faithful to its own reinvented logic, with some great performances and some mediocre ones. It is a fairy tale for adults and druggies.
