Kaboom

If there's an undercurrent of impending cataclysm in today's culture, 'Kaboom' senses that feeling, seizes it in a surreal clinch and hurtles with it off a cliff.

Designed to have its own fun, filled to the brim with bangs of all kinds but mostly landing with a whimper.

What pop spectacle!

The film is Araki's most ambitious to date, with a quick pace, music that's hip and cool and a mood that alternates between playful and eccentric.

All that's truly strange here though is that Araki gets so few jolts or laughs from this hodge-podge of genres.

Araki deserves credit for maintaining his independent spirit. But "Kaboom" is short on impact.

Shot in blinding colors, with an eye for artifice and a fixation on flesh, Kaboom is one happy, horny movie.

Kaboom plays out like a a ridiculously campy, and poorly written comic book. It's not very coherent and has a terrible ending.

Araki has crafted an entertaining, violently funny movie that's amongst his best work yet.

After walking out of KABOOM, I wanted to take a nice, hot shower to wash myself of this filthy film, but holy hell I had a blast.

there's no method to Kaboom's utter-insanity; it crumbles badly in the final minutes and reveals its central mystery as little more than a meaningless whimsy.

Araki movies used to feel dangerous. This one feels like underfunded kitsch.