Even Dwarfs Started Small

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Steve Y @Cubby65 Sep 19 Of the two of them, people always assumed Kinski was the mad one. After watching this, I'm not so sure. This type of film is right up my alley. See more Simon T @MovieTart 03/04/2024 Much as I love Herzog's later dramas and documentaries, this aimless and plotless experiment forced me eventually to give up. Whereas masterpieces like Aguirre, Nosferatu and Fitzcarraldo are anchored by mesmerising performances by Klaus Kinski and strong narratives, this self-indulgent story of renegade dwarves is simply a way of using up film stock. Uninvolving, tiresome and dull. See more Brian R @barstool 12/28/2020 like having a freakish dream except this wastes an 1-1/2 hours of your time. was hoping Mr. Herzog would create a film that could be added to some of his other great works but it wasn't See more 07/14/2018 Absolutely dreadful. This could have made an interesting short (as the premise of an all-dwarf film is quite arresting) but watching 90 minutes of cackling dwarfs creating mayhem is enough to try anyone's patience. Still, maybe this is what gave Joe Dante the inspiration for Gremlins so something positive may have come out of it. See more 11/02/2017 This has simply got to be one of the oddest films ever made. It's hilariously unique, establishing some of the running themes in Herzog's succeeding work, and not failing to create a brilliant allegory. See more 05/25/2017 Werner Herzog's strange film is often compared to Tod Browning's 1932 classic FREAKS, but the similarities stop there. Herzog's film is an oddity in itself, and unlike the cast of FREAKS, never manages to recognize its own stars as normal people. See more Read all reviews

Even Dwarfs Started Small

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