The concept had potential but the execution of it just doesn't work, and the movie we see unfortunately just becomes more and more of a contrived farce rather than achieve any sense of considered poignancy that was probably the intention.
It would have worked much much better if the characters were just alive and looking for their loved ones and deliverance rather than dead souls that ludicrously had to eat, smoke, drink, check into rooms, sleep on beds, ride motorbikes and hitch rides in vans to get around.... oh wait ... aren't those things live people do??
Making them dead doesn't add anything at all other than just another ridiculous pointless gimmick.
And zero reason of any sort - because there was conceivably none, other than just another nonsensical contrivance - that these vehicle riding souls can only 'parade' around silently once a month to seek out their loved ones ... and yes now they have to walk in droves ... why? Just silly nonsense which also has next to nothing to do with the movie's content despite being entitled "The Parades".
The subpar stony faced 'acting' by some of the actors didn't help any, coupled with bland meandering overly melodramatic scripting that doesn't work.
Characters also bafflingly change in their nature and motivation which actually caused them to lose identity and depth, and viewers soon care less and less about them.
There are also too many sub-plots none of which are naturally captivating enough ... resulting in an obvious paint-by-numbers amateurish attempt.
Throw in too constant patronising mellow muzak to 'guide' viewers how they should feel at oh so melodramatic moments is just off-putting yucky.
A try of sorts, but no, just immature and poorly executed. The writer and director seem to be more caught up with gimmicky ideas and melodramatic effects that they neither have the skills nor resources to execute properly, rather than making a compelling movie that viewers can immerse themselves in.
