To me, this movie is perfection.

Masterful Movie

Brilliant and touching

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Greaser's Palace (1972) ** (out of 4) I know that there are people out there who really, really enjoy this movie as its cult following appears to get bigger and bigger each year but I can't say I'm one of them. After hearing so many things about this film I had to try it for myself but I never really got drawn into the movie so for the most part it left me bored. The film is pretty much a stoner's (or alternative) look at the life of Jesus Christ but set in the Old West. A zoot suit wearing man is going through a small town where he heals the sick and brings the dead back to life. This doesn't sit too well with the town bad guy. That's pretty much the only bit of "plot" that I could pick up because this movie certainly succeeds at being strange and surreal. I think the likes of someone like Bunuel would even have a hard time following everything that goes on in this thing. The humor isn't in your face funny but more often than not it's just laid back and really comes off without having to use any punchlines. Something, or almost anything, will happen and you either laugh or you don't. The film really doesn't push too hard for laughs so I think it's really going to depend on whether or not the viewer can really get into the film from the start. I was unable to so that certainly explains why I wasn't really going along with the thing. I certainly respect the attempt but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Look quick for Robert Downey, Jr. playing a molested boy.

Greaser's Palace is a comical, chaotic, absurdist and surreal religious parody. It's like El Topo meets The Life of Brian. Alan Arrbus plays a strange messiah-like zoot-suited actor/singer/dancer called Jessy, who one day parachutes into a field close to a Western town where a host of odd characters hang out, the main one being a constipated chap called Seaweedhead Greaser, who runs the titular saloon. Jessy has some miraculous traits - he can walk on water and heals some of the locals by telling them: "If you feel, you heal". One of the most memorable scenes (and my favourite) is when Jessy approaches a group of people praying and says to them: "I bring you a message. Exactly six miles north of Skagg Mountain in the Valley of Pain, there lives an evil devil-monster. His name is Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger With A Side Of Aircraft Noise And You'll Be Gary Indiana. And he loves to hurt people. The last time I saw Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger With A Side Of Aircraft Noise And You'll Be Gary Indiana, he told me what he wants to do. He wants to come down here and kill each and every one of you. But I said to him: 'Bingo, wait a minute!'. And the reason I said that is because I believe in you people. I believe you can do the job. I believe you can help each other. I believe you can make this world a better place to live in. That's it". If you haven't seen this film then it must go on your must-see list of films, category surrealism. Chaotic cineastes will approve.

Yeah, what those comments above this one say. It's really weird. Even if your not out to see the symbolism which is included in everything this movie does, you won't be able to turn away. At times it resembles a car crash; something in you says maybe you should look away, or just go about your business, but are somehow unable. A must see.

I saw this movie in the late 70's in a stuffy hot 2nd floor big open room on folding metal chairs in an "art film" series on campus.It is unique, and still rates in my top 10 favorites. I love religious spoofs, and cowboys and the old West really add to the humor. Yet another story of a reluctant messiah, who just wants to be a song and dance man, but has to deal with his destiny.It was too much for the commercial market, so never got the wide screening it deserved. If it were released in 1999, it would be a bigger hit.