In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With MAGIC TRIP, Oscar®-winning director Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage to create a documentary of this extraordinary piece of American history.
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.
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I miss KeseyI have the uncut/unedited footage of this amazing story on several discs I bought from Ken's son's website.I am glad that they decided to put some narration to it and give it a little structure,although structure was the last thing my heroes needed! I just love these stories and the people. This isnt going to be everyone's cup of tea, but you are either on the bus or off...no in between!.Score: 5/5
ExcitedThe first time i read the elertric Koolaid acid test which this movie is based off of i said i wish they would make a movie about this. The book is great this movie is great. You should watch it!!! Can't wait to buy it..Score: 5/5
On The BusThis movie wavers between being a cliched documentary and being trippy and loose. But over all I think it gives a fair venue of Kesey's vision and how it fits into the continuity of the vision of the west, that being discovery..Score: 4/5
WoWWhat a long strange trip its been indeed..Score: 5/5
Kool-Aid Acid Test the MovieHave just been re-reading Kool-aid acid test--this was the movie waiting decades to be seen-If your a fan of the book -the beginning of The Grateful Dead, then you'll understand and appreciate this movie.If you fall in that camp you'll love it. Captures a incredible period of change in the US. What stuck me most was Kesey's moment of understanding about fear, and how so many were in fear during that era because fundamental change was happening to society. So much like our newly reformed world of fear- it makes me understand today is the undercurrent of change, which the squares still fear..Score: 5/5
I was born too latePhenomenal movie about the guy that started the '60s..Score: 5/5
Very koolI've been interested in The Merry Pranksters ever since high school.. This really was great the way all the living members give like a commentary through it.. Kinda fills in some of the blanks, and I got to see some of the faces I read about in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test..The only thing that I was bummed about, was the lack of the Mexican trip, when Kesey was on the run. They kinda skipped over that, and went from the bus trip, to the pot bust then right to the graduation.. Still great!!.Score: 4/5
Well done!Great 60's flick...RECOMMENDED!!.Score: 5/5
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