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Just can't understand how anyone who likes the anarchistic humour of the clerks movies can find the bad jokes of this one funny. The ingenious thing about the movies were the actually intelligent characters who were just over the top politically incorrect and anti-social, nothing left of that in the cartoon, here everyone is just acting stupid with Dante wearily rolling his eyes. I guess Smith just couldn't sell his more provocative ideas to the cartoon producers, but given this turn in tone, 6 Episodes are at least five too much. If you want to watch a real funny cartoon, go with "Undergrads", "Home Movies" or "The Oblongs".

It is really a pity that a Movie like this is so overlooked by the audience, at least in Germany. It can really be called a work of eclectic philosophy, as it combines many different ideas form different cultures about what the essence of life and death really is. What's apparently confusing many People is that there is no conclusion in the end, no solution with which you could go home satisfied and enlightened. So make sure you don't belong to the people who need a "moral" to be pleased with a movie before watching it, because that is not the point of the movie. It deals with many different aspects of ancient philosophy, like the old Indian circle of reincarnation, Mayan mysticism and Jewish-Christian ideas about sin and salvation. Actually, the Film leaves you with nothing but a feeling of a clue about the meaning of our existence, and this effect is an astonishing illustration of the thoughts that Plato had when he said that the meaning of life is not understandable with the mind but with the soul. Aronofsky surely read some philosophy before making this movie, and it doubles the fun if the viewer does also. Definitely on one level with 2001.