Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus has little to offer its viewers. The dialogue comes off as a documentary or a reality show (which, as I recently discovered, is because most of the film was not scripted, as the cast either improvised or was fed lines by the director right before takes), and there isn't much plot to the film. To put it simply, a group of friends in Chile search for the San Pedro cactus in order to cook it and drink it as a hallucinogenic drug, and once they finally find it, they camp out in the desert, cook it, drink it, and trip on it; that's all that there is to it. There are so many unnecessary scenes that do absolutely nothing to move the barely existent plot along, and the very little that this film accomplishes could have been accomplished in a half-hour short film. The characters have very little depth to them and are not compelling at all, and the film is just, to put it simply, incredibly boring. I was excited to see this film because I am a fan of Michael Cera, but I am so drastically disappointed, and if, like me, you are only interested in seeing this film because you are a Michael Cera fan, then waste your time with this pointless film if and only if you're that desperate to see him because otherwise, this probably won't be worth your time. It might have been a bit better if the whole script had actually been written, but the improvisation technique works for some productions and not for others; this film falls into the latter category, to say the least.
