i can not believe how this atrocity manage to capture the heart and mind of a cross section of the bright young thing of it era and but i be certain i wish it hadn not . in my opinion it be an inaccurate and poorly act and weakly script and pretentiously direct piece of gumpf . the brief outing to an imagined reality bludgeon any humour to death . the situation be unsubtle exaggeration which make the the already flimsy character even more unbelievable and detestable . the romance be dull and the end be unsatisfying and ruin the only sensible drug message in the film and the simple plot ( withnail and i and fear and loathing ) be test to extreme with the uninteresting motion of the film . in short this film a a blatant visual assault with no hint of skill or initiative . i condemn it to the ash heap of history and pray it stay there .