Review – Slaughterhouse-Five

I’ve never read this particular novel, but in my younger years I read enough of Kurt Vonnegut’s other work to appreciate how difficult it must be to bring his writing to the screen. The result here is a Ray-Bradbury-on-bad-acid experience, sentimental and strange in equal measures. Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) comes unstuck in time, hopping back and forth between his experiences in World War Two (including a POW camp and the Dresden bombing), postwar family life and an alien zoo enclosure on the planet Tralfamadore. At least here they’ve got an excuse for randomly ping-ponging around the time stream. Mildly amusing