John Landis, Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers, plus Donald Sutherland, Bill Bixby and Tony Dow. With that combination of talent how could you go wrong?, Well you can!
This movie may have been inspired by 'The Groove Tube' which was released 2 years earlier. It is mainly low humor, bare breasts and bad puns.
This film is made up of a bunch of short skits, and one long one, kind of like 'Saturday Night Live' without censorship but also with much less polish.
I saw it originally in the theater and a third of the audience walked out during the first skit 'Catholic High School Girls in Trouble'. The skit is framed as a movie trailer and features lots of naked women, in strange positions such as hanging from a ceiling while being pied in the tush by a clown. Memorable to most men would be the scene where a very large breasted women is having sex in the shower. She repeated pushes up against the glass shower door, making her breasts quite visible for a second, only to have them disappear again on the back thrust. Visible, blurred, visible, blurred. I can't explain why, but it IS funny in juvenile sort of away.
The longest skit is a parody of Kung Fu movies called 'A Fistful of yen' and has a few funny sections but the joke gets old fast. One bad guy has a hook hand with more 'Snap-On' attachments then a vacuum cleaner. This includes a vibrator attachment for entertaining his female friends.
The rest are a mixed bag. Some funny, some gross, some just plain dumb.
One of the funnier ones is the recurring new updates scattered between the other skits. there is a reporter who mike doesn't work. The camera keeps catching his in compromising positions from picking his nose to urinating on a wall. Then there's the news teasers. "The popcorn you're eating has been pi$$'d in, Film at 11!" and "I'm not wearing any pants, Film at 11!"
The dumb ones include a public service announcement form Chemical Company ARGON which extols "Here at our multi-billion dollar refinery in Fairbanks, we're extracting 2.5 billion barrels of crude oil each day from teenagers' faces."
The movie does have a cult following. If you are a die hard Landis and/or Zucker fan, see this for it's historical value. If you think 'Hot Shots' was the best movie ever made, or if 'Ren & Stimpy' cartoon leave you in stitches, then you might actually like this.
BUT:
If you must see bare breasts, rent a Playboy video.
If you want dirty Jokes, read Hustler.
If you want comedy more sophisticated than an 8th grade boys locker room, Watch ANYTHING but this.
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