Went and saw the new Phillip K Dick movie, A Scanner Darkly, this past weekend, as I was in the Twinkies anyways. It was pretty good overall. I have not read the book and so can not compare it to same. As well I tried not to overexpose myself to movie spoilers beforehand to keep it somewhat fresh. It was more a drug/addiction movie than a sci fic movie, so was not exactly what I was expecting. There where some genuinely funny scenes, and some of it was a little predictable. Definitely was a Dick-ian, (Dick-ish?) story, a bunch of second guessing as to people’s identities and what exactly was real vs. hallucination. I like the animation aspect quite a bit, with exception of how they did the eyes, the eyes where very dead/flat looking. Which MAY have been intentional given the subject matter, but intentional or not they detracted from the overall effect.
I would say it is a movie worth watching, I don’t think you would miss much by waiting until it came to DVD, and in fact that might help, as you can re-watch confusing parts. Overall I’d give it a solid ‘B’.