Have you ever walked out of a movie wondering what the hell its point was? Was it good? Was it bad? What was it about? These questions need to be addressed in a review, and I'm not sure I can even answer any of them regarding What Dreams May Come, but I'll try.

Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding, Jr. star in this film about the afterlife, heaven, hell, reincarnation and everything else you remember from your Sunday school classes.

Williams plays Chris Nielsen, a man who lives the perfect life, finds his soul mate, Anne (Annabella Sciorra), and begins to raise a family just as tragedy strikes.

Their two children are killed in a car accident, and Anne, blaming herself for their deaths, becomes suicidal. Chris helps her through the tough time and they begin to put their lives back together when - big surprise - tragedy hits again.

While on his way to pick up paintings for Anne's gallery show, Chris is killed trying to help at the scene of a car accident.

This is when we first meet Gooding, who plays Albert, Chris's spiritual guide into the afterworld. Albert takes Chris to his own funeral, shows Chris visual memories of the Nielsen children and allows him to say goodbye to Anne, who has again jumped off the deep end dealing with her husband's death.

Chris now is transported into fantasy land, or heaven, where each of the deceased has the power to create his or her own surroundings, complete with former pets.

Even in this paradise, though, Chris longs for his wife and can sense her trouble. Albert tries to distract him, but nothing seems to break Chris's determination to see Anne again.

Chris soon finds out that Anne has committed suicide, and in the afterlife, he can never see her again. In English: She went to hell. The rest of the film focuses on his search through the dream world to find Anne and bring her to heaven.

Along the way, Chris is helped by his children and mentors from his life on earth. In the life after death, a person can assume the appearance of whomever he or she chooses. Chris's daughter, for instance, becomes an Asian woman because she always believed Asians possessed a distinguished look.

In the world of What Dreams May Come, inhabitants have the ability to choose to be reborn and can visit each other's individual heavens. Chris's heaven was awash in bright colors, filled with flying angels, and framed by a beautiful landscape of mountains, lakes and a never-ending painted sky. When he visits hell, however, darkness consumes the screen, along with visions of people screaming for help and working as slaves that make the viewer uncomfortable and repentant.

There were two ideas that intrigued me about this film. The first is that it showed that pets do indeed go to heaven. I knew it! My mom wasn't lying when she said I'd see Fluffy again. The second is that in heaven, one can look or be whatever he or she wants to be. I'll take long legs, long red hair and big lips - well, hell - just let me look like Julia Roberts.

The film was, in one word, interesting. Even though I might have missed its point, the story in and of itself was touching. Some will like it and others will hate it, but all movie-goers will agree it presents a new way of looking at things without getting into a religious debate.

It's amazing how you can be transported to different worlds and shown all these new ideas in the span of two hours. It's a breath of fresh air in this world of sex, drugs and cigars.