End of the Road

It's possible that, a trillion years from now, a visiting alien will open a time capsule and alight upon a can of film containing this movie. After ten minutes, he'll switch it off and say to his alien comrade, "Fancy a beer, mate?" For few movies are as boringly awful as this one. Co-produced and co-written by 1960s satirist Terry Southern (the man who put the laughs into Dr Strangelove and the yawns into The Magic Christian), it's a counterculture affair with psychedelic trips, mental illness and a graphic message about abortion. Everyone looks stoned out of their minds and tends to cavort about naked.