Disregard the fact
that all your pathetic pothead roommates watch and rewatch this, sitting in front of the phantasmagoric visuals in (partially drug-induced) awe, and then in their (slightly) more sober moments declaring, "Dude....that movie is fuckin' awesome!"
The style and visuals are unmistakably Gilliamesque, though I beg to differ from those who panned the film, claiming it strayed too far from the book. The words and situations are all basically Hunter S. Thompson's, in addition to Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro's undeniably amusing characterizations. Incidentally, if you've happened to see any footage of Thompson in his younger days, you can't deny that Depp did a remarkable job - not wanting to repeat an endlessly used cliche, but it's as if he really did become the younger, though no less depraved (endearingly so), Hunter Thompson.