Search: Starring Werner Herzog

A funny and attention grabbing portrait of a unique filmmaker.

If there is anybody who can provide insight into the lives of those long-vanished it must be Herzog.

With its combination of bad CGI animation, intensely endearing characters, non-stop action and crowning layer of existential angst, Dinotasia is a film many kids will go crazy for, and some will be crying about it for weeks afterwards.

What he’s talking about and looking for is oddity masquerading as normality.

Anyone who has seen Herzog's Fitzcarraldo will know of the director's fascination with doomed quests and magnificent obsessions, and in Treadwell he has found his dream subject.

Penn has come up trumps.

Make no mistake: despite the big cast, this is the sort of thriller you can safely snooze through on a plane, connecting with ease the dots between the clichéd fights and chases.

The film's saving grace are the performances.

The glorious sight of a flying nun, an image Korine has said was one of his inspirations for the film, is both a moving and a joyous one.

Herzog's film does not follow the documentary conventions - would you expect anything different from him?

The pace accelerates through 15 stages of excitement without stopping to refuel

The posturing and overly theatrical nature of the delivery is going to make or break the experience for many.

Whilst it’s never intrusive, the film makes room for the personal and, perhaps more importantly, for Herzog to meander, interlinking diverse ideas in his inimitable way.