Odd but insightful road movie with James Marsden, Gary Oldman and Christopher Lloyd

The plot starts out a little tortuous, but it morphs into a road movie before too long, broken up into several quirky segments, which is why the flick is subtitled "Episodes from the Road." Critics deride the picture on the grounds that the messages are clunky, moralistically naive, and preachy. But it's unique and intelligent with quality reflections about life, which are made simple so "stupid people" or teens can grasp them. In short, this is a fairly entertaining oddball road fantasy that's distinctive and insightful.

If you like films like "Michael," "City of Angels," "Holy Man," "Bruce Almighty" and "Evan Almighty," this is cut from the same thematic cloth, except that the supernatural being is a magical Irishman.

It runs 1 hour, 56 minutes and was shot in Ontario (Sunderland, Cannington and Toronto) and Arizona (Phoenix).