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What the Bleep Do We Know!?
Directors: Mark Vicente, Betsy Chasse, William Arntz
Actors: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr., and Barry Newman
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price (not our price): $19.98
Release Date: 2005-03-15
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Run Time: 108 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Discs: 1


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
The unlikeliest cult hit of 2004 was What the (Bleep) Do We Know?, a lecture on mysticism and science mixed into a sort-of narrative. Marlee Matlin stars in the dramatic thread, about a sourpuss photographer who begins to question her perceptions. Interviews with quantum physics experts and New Age authors are cut into this story, offering a vaguely convincing (and certainly mind-provoking) theory about... well, actually, it sounds a lot like the Power of Positive Thinking, when you get down to it. Talking heads (not identified until film's end) include JZ Knight, who appears in the movie channeling Ramtha, the ancient sage she claims communicates through her (other speakers are also associated with Knight's organization). What she says actually makes pretty good common sense--Ramtha's wiggier notions are not included--and would be easy to accept were it not being credited to a 35,000-year-old mystic from Atlantis. --Robert Horton

2) Description
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?! is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences, while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden knowledge she doesn?t even realize she has asked for. Like every hero, Amanda is thrown into crisis, questioning the fundamental premises of her life ? that the reality she has believed in about how men are, how relationships with others should be, and how her emotions are affecting her work isn?t reality at all!

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5

1) A Gutsy way to Open Eyes and Minds to new Possibilities...   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This movie deserves more than 5-stars for being the first such attempt to bring the marriage of science, religion, medicine, and spirituality together. Obviously, when you do something like this, there will be those in each camp who don't want to move in with their neighbors; but the real point of this work is that, you don't have to like your neighbors, but you don't have to kill them, either -- and hating them is only bad for you. There is nothing new in this movie (for those who have been studying this information...); but this is the first major offering with leaders in all fields unifying their voices and message to a simple truth: We don't really know anything -- there is no master truth -- you have more control than you have been taught you had -- reality and experience are worth experimenting with.The message in all spiritual works worth spending your time and money on is simply, "Stay in the mystery." Even science is not truly "scientific;" it is constantly changing, and it is always subject to an observer, their goals and opinions, and beliefs and perspectives. This is obvious to anyone who pays attention to life; this movie is a wake-up call for the 90+% of the population who don't pay attention to their lives. This movie tells seasoned travelers, "Hey, you aren't alone on this adventure;" while telling newcomers, "Slow down and pay attention; there's more to life than you've been noticing thus far."Like The Secret, very complex issues are addressed -- incompletely -- by a variety of people with a variety of different ways of explaining something that really has to be experienced and felt first-hand. Those new to this kind of information have a lot more studying to do before the implication of this movie for their own life may be fully realized; but this is a great introduction to some very complicated concepts. This movie will make you think. If it irritated you, watch it again without looking for where they went wrong... If you still don't like it, give it to someone else; maybe they will...I think marrying these concepts with a story-line many people can relate to was a brilliant way of trying to weave together these concepts with a "real-life" example of what these ideas might look like in a typical human life. Everyone involved with this project did an excellent job! If you want more of the same, the "Down the Rabbit Hole" box set has several additional hours of information from these same healers, scientists, doctors, researchers, and teachers...

2) The trigger than can change your life   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
This movie is about exploring the possibilities of conscience in your everyday life. Instead of a naïf approach, the movie goes on digging into the scientific research and theories that could interlace with spiritual concepts. The result is a powerful case for making a serious effort to know and improve yourself (along with the world around you). They don't ask you to believe them; they show proof (whether is strong enough or not is up to you) and suggest to give it a try. A true revelation. Caution: could change lives!

3) I feel sorry for those that rate this below a 4   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This was a most excellent movie, I just saw it and enjoyed it more than The Secret. Everyone is where they are in life and that's OK, and (this is) for one of the raters that was very negative, I have a very successful career. For those that haven't experienced these concepts in life, its OK to wait and see it until some day when you do. But for those that have experienced these concepts in their own life, this movie is an excellent way to advance those experiences, by learning THE how. And this movie can help you have many AHA moments, there were so many pieces in there, that I will have to watch it many times to pick it all up because these experts are really phenomenal and amazing, and have given us many concepts, when understood, that can help us to reach our highest paths. My recommendation is to buy it and WATCH, WATCH, WATCH! TIP: The first 15 minutes or so of this movie are not too good, but wait it out until the experts start talking!

4) Who The Bleep Are They Kidding?   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
The What the Bleep Do We Know? sequel, Down the Rabbit Hole is a movie that ought to carry a warning to lactose- (and lachrymose-) intolerant viewers: "Contains potentially dangerous levels of cheese."A quasi-documentary about "the fundamental truth of unity," Bleep 2 is more New Age physics for lazy laypeople to ooh and ah over. In fact, it is more of a remake than a sequel, a compendium of stuff left out of the first movie, perhaps, and with nothing at all by way of upgrading in evidence. 2½ hours of ineptly staged dramatizations and waffling interviews with self-satisfied "experts," and perhaps a half hour of original material to justify, however limply, its existence, Bleep 2 is a shameless cash-in on the first film's success that suffers from all the failings of the original. Despite the larger budget and longer running time, the filmmakers have chosen not to develop their technique in any significant ways, revealing their utter complacency as "artists," and betraying a smug simple-mindedness and appalling lack of imagination completely at odds with the "ground-breaking" nature of their material. I can only presume they considered the original formula to be already perfect and that, since it wasn't broken, why fix it?The first movie made money and seemed to spark interest and excitement in the most unlikely of viewers, viewers perhaps grateful that such ideas were getting air-time at all in a popular movie. Yet it's hard to imagine a work whose style is so profoundly in conflict with its content, that juxtaposes such profound, challenging ideas with so daffy and clichéd an execution. The expressed end of the Bleep films appears diametrically opposed to the means employed. They propose to present a whole new paradigm by which to interpret our reality (and live our lives), a quantum weltanschauung if you will; yet the methods employed are so profane and uninspired that the result is rather to discredit (if not actually debase) the awesome concepts which these films are so gleeful to bandy about. By endeavoring to deliver the findings of cutting edge physics to the mass consciousness, the Bleep films are the quintessence of New Age reductionism. They present a lowest common denominated version of the Mysteries, selling audiences life-changing ideas in cozy, non-threatening forms, so that the masses can have their manna and eat it, feel "enlightened" without having to change in any meaningful way.In a quantum Universe in which information determines the spin of each and every particle, the Bleep movies spin their information into one big, dull, self-satisfied blah. As with all things New Age, by focusing exclusively on a positive "spin," they render the subject flat, two-dimensional. Throwing around words like God, eternal, absolute, infinite energy, consciousness, etc, with so little force or precision saps not only the words but the concepts behind them of power and vitality. The concepts may reach more people by being so diluted--thinned out--but at what price? This user-friendly, multiplex-tailored view of occult realities is as far from shamanism as art from kitsch (and kitsch is what the Bleep movies are).Fuzzy-headed professionals talking about the power of the brain? People we would avoid like the plague at a dinner party holding forth on "avenues of reality, unborn" and "infinite tomorrows." Please.Words, words, words, but where is the spirit? Images that belong in a Gatorade commercial not in a movie about time and space. The magical Universe seen through the lens of the Bleep movies becomes the asinine universe. A supremely patronizing experience.

5) After all the hype...   [Rating: 2 out of 5]
After all the hype I finally managed to get a copy of "What the bleep". Must say I expected more. Was an anti-climax to all the hype that was created around this movie.