Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

the audience applauded

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

While this is really Kentucky Fried Movie Part 2, I think it's much better.I'm sure it's because I have recently watched hundreds of old sci-fi movies and have never seen a Bruce Lee movie.I get all the sci-fi references.The out of shape, middle aged leading man, the dumb guy with the New York accent, they nailed it.They do get carried away on all the fake film damage but it's funny.One thing I forgot when I was reviewing Kentucky Fried was that these guys ripped off SCTV.It's the same thing.I thought maybe SCTV did the stealing but I just checked and it started a year before KFM came out.About the exact amount of time needed to rip off a hot new idea.Anyway, if you are familiar with old sci-fi movies you will enjoy this.If not, you might want to pass.

At the time this movie came out I was a serious insomniac spending much time watching late night TV, so I could relate.The concept -- seen through the eyes of a late night TV watcher flipping channels, but always returning to 1 movie is terrific and then add the wonderful cast and laugh out loud skits and you get a movie that is much better than a 6.? rating.I'm not going to start listing cast members as you can read that right here, but don't just read the first few. Because of the nature of the skits, there are well known actors/actresses from top to bottom, some well before they became household names. How about David Allen Grier long before "In Living Color" or Arsenio Hall in his first movie.OK, I know I said I wasn't going to list and then I did. I've been looking to buy or rent a copy of this movie for years, so I got excited writing about it.To conclude -- if you get the chance don't miss out.

Amazon Women on the Moon The worst part of watching commercials on TV is they're always interrupted by an annoying movie.However, it's not only commercials disrupting the feature film in this comedy, it's everything.Chanel 8 is showing a late-night 1950s sci-fi film called Amazon Women on the Moon, which stars Sybil Danning as the Queen of the Moon and Steve Forrest as a wayward astronaut.However, the film is constantly cut short by an array of movie and television promos, public service announcements and infomercials starring Michelle Pfeiffer, David Alan Grier, Rosanna Arquette, Steve Guttenberg and Ed Begley, Jr.Meanwhile, the lunar love story culminates in a daring escape.With sketches directed by established filmmakers (Joe Dante, John Landis) that range from the sublime to the silly, this anthology is a hilarious ode to night owl entertainment.Thankfully, movies today aren't interrupted by commercials; products are just strategically placed in every scene.Yellow Light vidiotreviews.blogspot.com

Don't get me wrong; I really like this movie...most of the time. It amazes me how in only 20 years the "modern" scenes highlighting the "wonders" of the VCR age are almost carbon-dated; the VIDEO RENT-A-DATE scene, or the Computer-Background-Dating-Check bit (which you can pretty much DO nowadays!) have fossilized! The old Jewish guy sucked into his "high-tech" TV (circa 1987) is a little dumb; and the baby Mr. Potato Head joke is not very good. There, got all that out of the way! Now, despite these shortcomings, there are enough truly hysterical scenes to make this film worth the rental/purchase. The titular sketch (spoofing '50s sci-fi space films) is spot-on perfect!. Another good one is the IN SEARCH OF parody (called "B.S. OR NOT?") w. Henry Silva. It names the Loch Ness monster as Jack the Ripper (using "as yet undiscovered evidence"). It is pretty funny (especially the salacious gaze the monster gives the prostitute as she walks away). One of my favorite sketches (which I always chapter skip to if I'm in a hurry) is the VIDEO PIRATES sketch, with William Marshall (Blacula himself) as the leader of a band of old-world pirates boarding a ship full of videotapes and discs. The pirates mocking the FBI warning at the beginning of the tapes ("Oooh, I'm soooo scared!") is classic! And the SON OF THE INVISIBLE MAN sketch with Ed Begley Jr. (in a full-throttle performance) as an all-too visible invisible man ("Ever see a shirt make a phone call?") is hysterical. It has a bit of a YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN vibe about it (as both capture the look of those '30s Universal monster films EXACTLY). Carrie Fisher's sex-ed, VD film parody is also wickedly funny (and only a slight exaggeration of films like REEFER MADNESS). The BLACKS WITHOUT SOUL/DON SIMMONS sketches (w. B.B. King, and a perfectly cast David Alan Grier) are like the glory days of Saturday Night Live in their subversive humor ("Chim-chimeny, chim-chimeny..."). Yes, this film is the very definition of uneven; but the highlights ARE worth the trouble. The film works even better if you're old enough to REMEMBER cheesy, late-night, local TV station programming. And if you DO remember the parody origins as fondly as I do, then the film's highlights will really hit their mark; making the other, "filler" segments a perfect time to use the old chapter skip button (or go to the kitchen for a snack). Just don't miss the aforementioned sketches and a few other bits in between. And if you can't sleep, it's perfect counter-programming to those crappy paid programming/infomercials clogging up all the late-night time slots that used to be the haven of wonderfully bad, cheesy movies! AMAZON WOMEN lets viewers re-visit some of that cheesy nostalgia of late-night TV past!