Ketrivie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Kirandeep Yoder
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Wyatt
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
mrwarren8
Everyone Needs to see This Movie!! I've never in my life seen A musical so Awesome! It's so Ghastly Awesome! Johnny X is so Amazing! I love this Movie so Much. I loved the whole 50s retro style with Delinquency Johnny X and His Alien Gang saving Mankind. Best Sci fi comedy/Musical I've seen. I loved the singing and Dancing 50s style. The 50s style singing and Dancing made the movie so much more Awesome! And cool! I loved it! And loved that it was filmed Black and white it fit well with the 50s style. More fun and retro. Great storyline very well scripted! The Movie Kept me entertained and Laughing the whole Movie. I want to Join Johnny X and be A Ghastly one. Johnny X is Amazing! Watch this Movie!
gordon-80750
This film is woefully underrated. For me it sparkles as a loving homage to the stuff I enjoyed in the 50s, when movies were honest fun and not just vehicles for the purveyance of slut and filth as they are today. It hearkens back to what Hollywood once was while maintaining technological currency. Additionally it is the last feature shot on actual black-and-white Kodak Plus-X 35mm film stock."The Ghastly Love of Johnny X" will grow to become a cult favorite like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Mark my words! I have had the opportunity to see this picture in both DCP and on real 35mm film. It looks great in either medium, but the film print adds a certain hard-to-define quality that is missing in most cinema presentations today.
lhumbird
This is a unique kind of a movie, no question there. The genre is more or less unclassifiable.Let's get to the point. For all the ways I wanted this movie to be great, it's so-so at best. It's disorganized and inconsistent.But the movie has one high point: De Anna Joy Brooks. She plays "Bliss", a member of the Ghastly Gang from another world, sent to earth as punishment or perhaps redemption. Brooks literally steals the movie with one song and dance routine, "These Lips That Never Lie." She is positively dripping with personality and suave. I wish I could say that about the rest of the cast, but De Anna is the only one who's clearly overqualified for this movie.Overall, I'd say skip this movie. But don't miss De Anna's dance number, perhaps on YouTube, etc. I've watched it a dozen times and never tire of it.
Michael Members
This movie is plain "Horrible". I have never seen such a bunch of flamboyant, Pansy acting grown men flopping around the big screen as I did here. The storyline made NO sense, the characters sang about just "anything" whimsical and the acting was exaggerated. TO AN EXTREME.Watching this movie reminded me of a director trying TOO hard to bring back a silly, immature time of his youth with no sensibility and an irresponsible approach at cinema of the past.Lets take a look at the casting!! It's like he got them from a list of his top 10 favorite movies when he was a kid, negligent at the fact whether they fit the role properly or not. S T U P I D .Is a movie that was filmed in Black & White supposedly an art sensation? Think again. This Car crash of a flick ( and supposed worst investment laugh riot within the industry) rivals Plan 9 from outer space.It should be categorized as a "Disaster movie" instead of a musical for OBVIOUS REASONS!
