I'm a very big Coen Bros fan, and I have to say this was well below their better work like Fargo,Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink. I think the intent was to tell a parable-type tale similar to Raising Arizona, even down to putting incongruously articulate phrases in the mouths of bumpkins, but I found the story contrived, and some bits (the Turturro character is believed to have been changed into a frog) too silly to be funny. The music was superb, the sense of the 1930s rural South very well done, and it had its delightfully funny and bizarre moments (the Klan rally with its wacky Wizard of Oz take-off). The "Three Stooges version of the Odyssey" is an accurate description, but I've always found that more than thirty minutes of Larry, Moe and Curly give me the heebie-jeebies.