starring Justin Long, in one of his more frenetic performance, "The Wave" is crowd-pleasing fun; It's a heady and entertaining film; Overall, this a daring, sharp, and satisfying jolt to the system
equal parts "Dude, Where's My Car", "The Hangover", and "A Christmas Carol", "The Wave" is a fun enough way to watch one man piece together his bad times, when time has no meaning
after that bumpy start, "The Wave" rolls into something far more engaging, even charming: a fairly clever, trippy saga with its heart in the right place