@shinerdrinkerWow! Nice to hear directly from someone who liked it -- and you are far from alone. IMDB rating was very positive. As for me,... hmm. I was looking to get out of the house and wanted to see a movie and this seemed the best of the lot. Tried to get my wife to go, but she watched trailer and bailed. Not really her kind of movie, anyway, too much fantasy and weirdness. And, that turned out to be the same for me. I won't do spoilers here, but basically I found the bigger arc of the story -- the way the journey changed the character's situation in her "real" or "where-we-started" universe unsatisfying. Was that just from the after-effects of the action in the middle? Did she actually change and grow? Maybe their was some growth, but... just weird. Not nearly as clear as the character arc in, for eaxample, Back to the Future.
And, having said that, the movie is still fairly fresh in my mind, unlike a lot of books I read that I can't remember whether I read them or cared about them two weeks later - most just blend together. This movie isn't going to blend with anything, although in some ways I felt I was watching scenes in a blender as I sat in the theater.
(I'm having a real hard time justifying why I didn't like this more. Seems like I should have, but I guess my critical analysis skills are failing me, and my personal response sure seems out of sink!)
