Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783228310
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0783228317
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: June 15, 1999
Running Time: 118 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 1998

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
The original cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S. Thompson's psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo" journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences," and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a visionary filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of Thompson's ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the joke--an endless series of repetitive scenes involving rampant substance abuse and the hallucinogenic fallout of a road trip that's run crazily out of control. Johnny Depp plays Thompson's alter ego, "gonzo" journalist Raoul Duke, and Benicio Del Toro is his sidekick and so-called lawyer Dr. Gonzo. During the course of a trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, they ingest a veritable chemistry set of drugs, and Gilliam does his best to show us the hallucinatory state of their zonked-out minds. This allows for some dazzling imagery and the rampant humor of stumbling buffoons, and the mumbling performances of Depp and Del Toro wholeheartedly embrace the tripped-out, paranoid lunacy of Thompson's celebrated book. But over two hours of this insanity tends to grate on the nerves--like being the only sober guest at a party full of drunken idiots. So while Gilliam's film may achieve some modest cult status over the years, it's only because Fear and Loathing is best enjoyed by those who are just as stoned as the characters in the movie. --Jeff Shannon




Rating: - BAT COUNTRY?????
What can I say?? Best movie EVER! My husband is a huge fan of this movie and I had never seen it in its entirety, but let me say after watching it, i think it is brilliant!! Johnny Depp is one of my all time favorite actors and Bencio(sp) does a fantastic job as well! Let me say that the extra's on the DVD are what actually intrigued me. You get to hear Johnny commentate as the movie moves along and it opens up a whole difference sense of the movie for you! This movie will get watched over and over ... Read More

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Rating: - A great version of this dvd
Criterion Collection editions are always the best of the best and this has a great set of extras that are actually interesting.

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Rating: - Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Review
It's good. I enjoy it. A lot. That is, I enjoy it more than a little. It's good. Funny. Rather humorous. I recommend it.

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Rating: - An exposé for Rolling Stone magazine about the killing of Ruben Salazar
The reviewer is right who stated the mainstream doesn't get Gilliam. Bottom line is people will still be talking about this movie 100 years from now when most of the Academy pop favs will be forgotten. I thought I had to clarify what is actually happening and why Depp is in LV to begin with.

"The novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas accounts for two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson and attorney Oscar Zeta Acosta took in March and April of 1971. He was writing an exposé ... Read More

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Rating: - Clever and Hilarious
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a Terry Gilliam film, is an adaptation of Hunter Thompson's classic autobiographical account about his experience covering a motorcycle race in Nevada in the early 1970's. The late Thompson's book has become one of the most widely read cult classics in literature and Gilliam stays true to form with his contribution to it, creating a near literal, cinematic translation. Gilliam lent his adept directorial skills to other memorable films such as The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, ... Read More

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