Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

RavenGlamDVDCollector Miracle Reviews present: The Raven doing a John Landis spectacular.:) please understand, this is a light-hearted rage intended to be darkly humorous - do not proceed if you are prone to being offended.I have just spent an afternoon wading through the Special Edition DVD. At some stages, you can laugh, at others you can just cry. What hokey yuck, what utter drivel, what a miserable load of crap it is in so many places. People, I understand Crazy. I speak Crazy. But if you have carte blanche to film Crazy surely you can come up with something that is a better kind of crazy than this?For the most part, this is just stupid. The (un)funny fun funeral you could really have funneled back up a funny place, directors. Just a bunch of doddering old has-been comedians shuffling around padding their pensions. Ruins everything.Yes, I was here for Monique Gabrielle (perfection, quite possibly the best-looking girl ever on film, proof provided here, can't argue with this bare fact, nobody can) and my darling from the Eighties, the actress I always cheered for, Rosanna Arquette. She was absolutely DreamsVille. Kelly Preston, a surprise appearance, I didn't even know! Young, gorgeous ingénue. Yet the focus falls on that awful funeral gag with all the old deadbeats?The extras had nothing more of either Rosanna or Monique and just made me freaking mad. I am suffering as I sit here. An afternoon wasted on mostly junk. And I hear that over-eager weird Simmons dude singing one more time, I'm gonna tie a yellow ribbon in his oak tree, mark my bloody words! Would like to see him do the dance of love then.But my score doesn't quite blow it out of the water. Why? Besides being a fan of Monique Gabrielle's naked charm, I am quite fond of some other scenes here:The pharmacy "Titon" sketch was magnificent, with good performances, I felt for the poor young guy. And that condom mascot took the cake! The two I.D.'s bit, with Steve Guttenberg and knockout gorgeous Rosanna Arquette, an absolute standout. But that easily gets cancelled out as you stumble through the rest of this movie, especially the deleted scenes on the DVD. If the whole movie was of the quality of these two acts, with Monique Gabrielle's good turn thrown in for good measure, what a great thing it could have been.But that irksome funeral thing with all that clutter was just too much and really nailed the coffin in the production.Michelle Pfeiffer in the Mr. Potato Head segment is quite unbelievably hilarious, I mean, serious actress Michelle! A penny for her thoughts as she did this... The main entry, the space movie, well, I know it's supposed to be silly and badly filmed and badly televised and all that, but everything just adds to an unsettling kind of view. For that bit to work, there is a whole lot of other weak stuff that should have been trimmed from this tree.Great moment: looking through the microscope at the germs caused by reckless living, ravaging away at the body, and seeing cartoon mice dashing about rushing into their hidey-hole.Lots of fun but too much of a sugar rush caused a glut of some seriously off-putting unnecessary stuff.And as for most of the deleted scenes on the Special DVD, they should really have been erased.And I have to sing this to Rosanna, I mean, I have to: All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes, Rosanna, yeah...Brought to you by Miracle Reviews.It's a miracle if it's a good review.{as you can see, I learned one good funny trick from watching this, er, "movie" (???)}

GusF A tribute to late-night TV channel surfing, this is a dreadfully unfunny comedy. I was expecting it to be similar to the other sketch / anthology films that I have seen: occasionally excellent and occasionally very bad but generally good overall. Unfortunately, the writers Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland left out the good and excellent parts and overdid the very bad ones. The film has five directors: Joe Dante, Cart Gottlieb (the only one of whom I never previously heard), Peter Horton, John Landis and Robert K. Weiss. That said, I only know Horton as an actor and Weiss as the co-creator of "Sliders".I am a fan of both Dante and Landis' films (including "Twilight Zone: The Movie", another anthology film on which they collaborated) so my hopes were high. They were dashed pretty quickly but I soldiered on, both because I promised myself that I would always finish every film and because I figured that there would be at least one brilliant sketch by the law of averages, if nothing else. Well, this film broke the law of averages so that's something at least. I understand that it is a spiritual successor to "The Kentucky Fried Movie", which was likewise directed by Landis. I haven't seen that film but the fact that it was written by Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker means that I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and assume that it is funnier than this film. It pretty much has to be, really.According to the opening credits, the film stars "lots of actors" – when one of the best jokes in the film comes in the opening credits and it is not even terribly funny, you know you're in trouble – but none of them are used well. They include Steve Forrest, Steve Guttenberg, Steve Allen and other people not named Steve such as Horton, his then wife Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Begley, Jr., Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Rosanna Arquette, Henry Silva, Robert Picardo, William Marshall, Marc McClure, Arsenio Hall, Lou Jacobi and David Alan Grier. I don't think that I have ever seen a worse film with a better cast, frankly. Dante's "mascot" Dick Miller appeared in a scene that was cut. I hope that he realised how lucky he was.The major problem with the film is not that the ideas for the sketches were unfunny – quite the opposite, in many cases – but that they are almost all executed terribly. The jokes miss their target with about as often as the Stormtroopers from "Star Wars". The 1950s sci-fi film parody which gave the film its title could have been hilarious but it didn't even raise a smile. The Universal Monsters parody "Son of the Invisible Man" could have been hilarious but it barely raised a smile. The "Roast Your Loved Ones" segment could have been hilarious if they had hired better comedians. Steve Allen was the only one worth mentioning, let alone watching. At about eight minutes, that is one of the longest sketches and it sure as Hell feels like it. Even some of the sketches which were less funny in their concept – such as "Murray in Videoland" in which a man is zapped into his television, "Two I.D.s" in which a young man's lack of consideration for the women that he dates is exposed by a compatibility analyser and "Titan Man" in which an embarrassed 17-year-old boy tries to buy condoms from his local pharmacy – could have provided a few good laughs but no such luck. It was not exactly up against stiff competition but my favourite sketch was the "Ripley's Believe It or Not" / "In Search of..." parody "Bullshit or Not?" presented by Silva (playing himself) in which it was theorised that the Loch Ness Monster was in fact Jack the Ripper. I laughed out loud for the only time in the entire 84 minutes when I saw Nessie dressed as a Victorian gentleman and hiring the services of a prostitute before promptly murdering her. The film could have done with at least 20 more moments like that. "Blacks Without Soul" was probably the second most successful sketch, for what it's worth.On the bright side, I did like the design of the film in several segments such as the pitch perfect recreation of the disparate styles of 1930s social guidance films, 1930s/40s horror films and 1950s sci-fi films. As you would expect, many films are parodied or at least referenced in some way: "The Invisible Man", "Forbidden Planet", "Destination Moon", "King Kong", "Back to the Future", "Sophie's Choice", "Out of Africa", "Gandhi", "Ghostbusters", "Iceman", etc. That was probably a mistake since it is not a very good idea to remind people of good or downright brilliant films when they're watching your very, very bad one. I'd even take some of the bad ones that it references as they are probably more enjoyable than this.Overall, this is a terrible waste of both comic potential and talent.

Lee Eisenberg "Amazon Women on the Moon", directed by a group of directors and starring (literally) a bunch of actors, knows exactly what kind of movie it is: unabashedly silly. It's an 85-minute celebration of all things slapstick, unafraid to do anything that it wants. And very funny, I might add. Unlike "The Kentucky Fried Movie", this one has a central theme: a 1950s sci-fi flick with the same title as the main movie. But more than anything the entire movie is an excuse for the bunch of actors to show off their goofy side (some doing so in a deadpan style). It's everything that makes life worth living, and I have no doubt that the people involved had a lot of fun in production. You're sure to love it!So just to guard against becoming impure.

Dennis Littrell (Note: Over 500 of my movie reviews are now available in my book "Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Remote!" Get it at Amazon.)The opening skit "Apartment Victim" with Arsenio Hall is pure slapstick--not my favorite comedy type but for some reason I found it hilarious. I just cracked up on all the mishaps and the great timing by Arsenio and the cameras. The way the video cassette shoots back out of the player and hits him and knocks him over was just so funny; and the way the TV blows up when he hits the remote was a crack up. Which reminds me, Confucius says "Woman who flies upside down has hairy crack up." (Sorry about that.) Anyway, I also liked David Alan Grier as Don (No Soul) Simmons in the segment "Blacks without Soul." The Laurence Welk way he sang the Broadway show type tunes was just a riot. I also liked the skit featuring Rosanna Arquette, "Two I.D.'s" in which she takes the prospective date's credit cards and two forms of ID to investigate what kind of guy he is on a date.I also kind of liked the comedic roast at the wake in "Roast your loved one." Kind of. The jokes ranged from funny but old to lame-o.The overall shtick of this being a TV late night movie show was also good--the idea, anyway. The featured movie "Amazon Women on the Moon" (actually this was a skit too; no such movie exists although one wonders why), which spoofs 50s cheapo sci-fi flicks was so, so very bad as to almost be campy--but not quite. It was frankly just bad bad, and a little on the very cognitively challenged side, that is to say, dumb.Overall this was a lot funnier than might be expected, at least for me, but then again I have actually watched most of the episodes of "Married with Children" although I would never it it.