User Reviews

I enjoyed it overall because they got some solid footage with Longmont Potion Castle, including scenes of him making calls in his studio.

The documentary was a poorly made pseudo-satire with a dumb storyline (the filmmakers run are inept and run out of money), which distracts from the subject, LPC. Seems like there's a lot of layers to whatever they were attempting to do. It's unclear what's real and what's acting.

I would have preferred a normal documentary that allows the subject to shine more, but it's all we have, so for fans it's worth watching.

Longmont Potion Castle is one of the most fascinating enigmas of our lifetime, right up there with Banksy in my mind. For people expecting something as unique as "Exit Through the Gift Shop"'s approach to dissect the effect the artist has had on his longtime fans, this aint it. Even a simple walk through LPC's albums and most popular bits would've have been fine, instead we get 2 dudes way in over their heads who didn't care about presenting something with care. Chunks of this are crudely slapped together in editing, its mostly uneven interviews with musicians and Rainn Wilson poorly remembering bits from the prank calls, and worst of all the director's tried to fix their mess they must've realized they had by making themselves the main characters in a mockumentary. Someone with foresight could've made it work, unfortunately it feels like my lazy attempt at making a documentary in junior high, yeah I could've gone back and shot better stuff and nixed all the pointless unfunny bits, but I also wanted to be done working on it. That's how this feels, not like underdogs were making a shoestring budget film (that might've been endearing on some level), it just feels like they didn't have the energy to try making this a film any LPC fan would wanna show other fans or even someone who wants to know about the legend himself. The bits where they actually interview Longmont are obviously the best parts and I don't hold him responsible for anything I disliked about the film, I just wish it had been made by people who cared enough. I guess I'll have to make my own documentary on one of my comedy idols seeing as how low the bar has been set.

Complete self-indulgent garbage. This will spoil LPC for you. Can't believe this has any genuine positive reviews. The director is a complete amateur and should have just left Longmont Potion Castle alone. I truly hope this documentary gets lost in a pile of garbage docs or is somehow wiped off the internet so it can't spoil the reputation of LPC anymore. It all appears very fake and contrived, and doesn't focus enough on longmont himself at all. The only thing worth watching is the footage of longmont in the studio.

This is a bad documentary and an insult to the greatest prank caller of all time.

Go watch "Live From Longmont Potion Castle", the self-released VHS tape from the 90s, instead. I was hoping this documentary would be experimental and memorable, like that old VHS, but instead this is amateurish and tepid. But it's not all bad, there were some great commissioned calls, and I finally got an LPC vinyl out of it.

For the die-hardest of die-hard fans only.