
According to Variety, "a continuous stream of audience members kept standing up and bolting for the door throughout the film." Of course, that's not typically good news at a festival, particularly since some of those audience members were there as prospective buyers for the film's distribution rights. But those silly headlines were followed up by largely positive reviews. That means this divisive film about a suicidal man (Dano) on a deserted island who rides back to civilization on a corpse (Radcliffe) powered by flatulence (with an erect penis that eventually serves as a compass) stands a good chance of reaching its target audience one day.
The Guardian's praise was similar: "It’s coarse and it’s stupid, but it is, thanks mostly the two good performances and some stylish use of music and editing, a little bit moving."
"Look, Swiss Army Man is not going to be a crowd-pleaser,"Wired's Angela Watercutter writes, calling the movie a "95-minute viral video" and yet, still praising it.
This Harry Potter star shares his opinion on fake butts and farting. https://t.co/ctxMCBglca
— MTV News (@MTVNews) January 24, 2016
"I read it and it was crazy and mad, but there's so much going on that never did it just seem like it was just crazy and mad," Radcliffe told MTV News. "It was obvious from the start that there were so many interesting themes being explored."
Interesting themes, but also, undeniably, nonstop fart jokes. The actors told MTV that real farts from the cast and crew were recorded to make the film. They also revealed that a prosthetic mold of Radcliffe's butt was made for some of the scenes in the ocean.
"It was not dignified," he admitted of the process of making a butt mold. "But it was like, 'It's gonna be a great movie. It's gonna be a great movie.'"
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