Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

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

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Wild in the StreetsThe problem with teenagers voting is that they loiter around the ballot box afterwards.However, the adolescents in this musical are more apt to through a dance party.Subversive since infancy, Max Frost (Christopher Jones) now fronts a successful rock group of astute teens (Richard Pryor, Kevin Coughlin, Diane Varsi) that Senator Fergus (Hal Holbrook) would like to partner with.But before he'll endorse the policymaker, Frost wants Fergus to lower the voting age to 14, or else Frost's fans will riot.Eventually, Frost uses LSD to win the US presidency and send everyone over 35 to internment camps.An outlandish cautionary tale about the social tensions affecting sixties youth, this cult classic may have some trippy ideas and seriously catching tunes, but its message of dissent is drowned out by all its bell-bottomed kitsch.Regardless, what good is the vote at 14 if you can't go binge drink afterwards?Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

I saw this movie in the theater a week or so after my junior year in high school. It was my first date where I was allowed to drive. The film received a lot of fanfare, aimed entirely at my generation. I went with high expectations and was of course disappointed. I think it was supposed to be some kind of Hollywood version of a social protest film, set in a slightly tongue-in-cheek spirit. It came off as just goofy. I thought it was goofy at the time, when I was 17 and almost anything designed especially for me I perceived as at least a little bit cool and hip. But not Wild In The Streets. Nope.Some folks might think it has acquired some kind of cheeky flavor to it that makes it a good film, you know, like Plan 9 From Outer Space is supposedly a good movie too. But nope, Wild In the Street is simply a below par film, and for that matter, so is Plan 9.

Naive political rabble-rouser from A.I.P. has sexy pop star Christopher Jones elected President of the United States after the voting age is lowered to 14. Screenwriter Robert Thom, working from his short story "The Day it All Happened, Baby", addresses heady issues but in a campy manner, skimping on anything too harrowing for the sake of the cartoonish handling. Thom also leaves out a major part of the story (the voting process) in favor of an 'ironic' sub-plot which parallels a chapter of World War II! The picture does look good and sound good, and it has fine acting from Jones, Shelley Winters as his mother, Diane Varsi, Millie Perkins and, in a bit, Richard Pryor. **1/2 from ****

This film could only have been made in 1968. No other time era produced such insanity. It's great fun and the ultimate American International Teen movie. I remember seeing this film four times when it came out in 1968. I also bought the book by Robert Thom (which was better and had a much better ending), the soundtrack album, the 45 record of "Shape Of Things To Come" with "Free Love" on the flip side and I even have a one sheet movie poster from the film. I guess I fell for this movie! The people here who dislike the film take it too seriously. It is a wild fantasy about teenagers taking over the United States and putting all adults in concentration camps! How can you take such a plot seriously? Dr Strangelove was more plausible but this film cuts with some great satire of it's own. A one of a kind film you won't forget!