What a beautiful movie!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Chad Lowe and Kristy Swanson play Charlie and Rachel, a young couple who've hit the road to Vegas in order to elope. Despite the warnings of grizzled desert gas station owner Sam (Richard Farnsworth), they manage to fall prey to a character known as The Hellcop (C. J. Graham). The evil lawman abducts Rachel and takes her to Hell; Charlie learns from Sam that he has a limited amount of time in which to rescue his bride-to-be. Receving assistance from a man named "Beezle" (Patrick Bergin), and befriended by Beezles' young charge Adam (Jarrett Lennon), Charlie is plunged into a variety of weird environments and encounters.Directed by Dutch filmmaker Ate de Jong ("A Flight of Rainbirds", "Drop Dead Fred"), this cult comedy isn't terribly funny overall, and the story, conceived by Brian Helgeland ("L. A. Confidential", "Payback") is pretty conventional. This derives most of its modest amusement from incidental moments and gags, not to mention some delicious cameos (which I won't spoil here). Overall, "Highway to Hell" (it seems like a no-brainer that we'd have the AC/DC song on the soundtrack, but we don't) is just quirky enough to make it a decent watch, and is graced with a good forward pace and respectable amount of energy. It's also got a groovy rock score by the group Hidden Faces.The lovely and appealing Swanson and the likable, earnest Lowe are good as the couple at the centre of the tale, while Bergin definitely elevates the proceedings with his charismatic performance as a dapper, engaging version of Satan. Graham, who "Friday the 13th" franchise fans know as their favourite hockey masked killer in Part VI of that series, has a solid screen presence as the mute villain. Farnsworth is as delightful as he's ever been, and the movie likewise benefits from his brief screen time.Worth a look for people looking for something a little different.Six out of 10.

Must have been 16 years ago since I saw this movie for the very first time, as a kid just 10 years old. Last week I made a trip to memory lane and boy did I got entertained ! Highway to Hell tells the story of Charlie Sykes (Chad Lowe) and Rachel Clark (Kristy Swanson)on a trip to Las Vegas to get secretly married. While driving on the Interstate Charlie decides to take a shortcut but finds out he should've listened to his girlfriend and just kept driving on the main roads. They stop at a gas station for a quick fill and have a strange encounter with the attendant and owner named Sam (Richard Farnsworth). He warns Charlie not to fall asleep on the road ahead, but as you can guess this is exactly what happened. He wakes up to find out a strange cop named "Hellcop" arrests them and takes Rachel with him. Charlie hurries back to the gas station and tells Sam the situation. Sam explains he has to get to Hell because that is where Hellcop took his fiancée.Then the adventure begins ! As a Kid I just loved the creativity of Hell and it's citizens. There's a lot of comedy in this movie, like you see in most Horror movies from this era. Horror is a genre which doesn't fit this movie well anyways. There are even Cameo's of the Stiller's ( Ben (in one of his first movies), his father Jerry and his sister ). If you're into Comedy-Horror movies then you shouldn't miss this gem. It's very underrated and to a lot of people this classic has become a cult-movie. Take this roller-coaster ride to hell and I'm sure you'll have a big smile on your face at the end.

Didn't catch the whole thing, but what I saw was a goofy sendup of the Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, with Chad Lowe standing in for the Big O and Kristy Swanson a gorgeous Eurydice. In this version, perhaps to keep the Catholics in the audience happy, Satan himself appears and is in charge of the underworld. He is played by the eternally stone-faced Patrick Bergen. Plus Gilbert Gottfried shows up as Hitler and Ben Stiller and his dad have brief roles. Actually, for my money, the most interesting character is the Hellcop, who kidnaps Swanson and drags her down into the underworld, with Lowe in (pardon the pun) hot pursuit. Not as bad as MONKEYBONE or YOR, but not nearly as interesting as BEETLEJUICE. Drink heavily before watching.

Charle (Rob Lowe's affably boyish younger brother Chad) and Rachel (delectable blonde hottie Kristy Swanson, who originated the part of everyone's favorite bloodsucker-stomping high school cheerleader in the flop movie "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") are a sweetly pure and innocent young couple who make the usual mistake of driving down a remote desert dirt road. When Rachel gets abducted by the pernicious superhuman fiend Hellcop (hulking C.J. Graham; Jason in "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives"), Charlie literally has to go to hell to rescue Rachel within twenty-four hours or otherwise the Devil (a smoothly sneaky and ingratiating Patrick Bergin) will have her soul for all eternity.Director Arte De Jong, working from Brian Helgeland's quirkily creative script, presents a gloriously offbeat vision of Hades in this wildly eccentric and imaginative horror-comedy-drama-action-adventure handy dandy multi-genre combo oddity. Among the arrestingly off-kilter sights to be seen in this wacked-out beaut are a greasy spoon diner populated by cops who are never served with a short order cook (a pre-stardom Ben Stiller) who fries eggs on the sidewalk, a gang of hostile bikers, a psycho ice cream man, road workers who all look like Andy Warhol, a butt-ugly libidinous lady demon, a three-headed mutant dog, and a highway with nothing but speeding Volkswagons rippin' down the road. Moreover, Lowe makes for a refreshingly wimpy and reluctant hero while Swanson registers strongly as a very fair and appealing maiden in distress. Popping up in snazzy bits are the ever-amiable Richard Farnsworth as a folksy, friendly ol' fuddy dud gas station proprietor, Pamela Gidley as a helpful motorcycle mama, 80's hard rock icon Lita Ford as a crazed hitch-hiker, stand-up comic Gilbert Gottfried as a raving neurotic Hitler, and Kevin Peter Hall as the eyeless captain of a boat which travels across the river Styx. Robin Vidgeon's bright, dazzling cinematography and a way cool bluesy'n'funky score by Hidden Faces further enhance the marvelously idiosyncratic merriment to be found in this one-of-a-kind flaky favorite.