What The Bleep Do We Know!? review

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May 20th 2005 By Total Film

"How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?" asks What The Bleep Do We Know!? Styling itself as a quantum-physics-for-dummies doc, it's actually something much stranger: a moronic recruitment ad for the Ramtha School of Enlightenment that ditches scientific fact for New Age hucksterism.It kicks off promisingly with various egghead PhDs chatting about quarks, then vanishes up its own rabbit hole with a tiresome drama about an unhappy photographer (Marlee Matlin) and the arrival of Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old mystic from the lost continent of Atlantis who is "channelled" by porky blond JZ Knight, dispensing mystical advice about positive thinking. If you hang around long enough, you'll learn that the answer to life, the universe and everything is that reality is an illusion, we're all God and if you believe you can walk on water, you will. Sheesh, we always thought it was 42...