Amazon Women on the Moon - Collector's Edition

Starring:Stanley Brock, Corey Burton, Debbie Davison, Griffin Dunne, Steve Forrest, Monique Gabrielle, Arsenio Hall, Phil Hartman, Peter Horton, Lou Jacobi, Rob Krausz, Donald F. Muhich, Joe Pantoliano, Michelle Pfeiffer, Erica Yohn, Brian Ann Zoccola
Director: Peter Horton, Joe Dante, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

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Contrary to popular rumor, this 1987 collection of comedy skits is not about a group of female employees from Amazon.com on a mission to the lunar surface. It's a series of unrelated spoofs and sketches designed to resemble an aimless night of TV channel-surfing, and the satirical targets include grade-Z science fiction films of the 1950s, sex films of the 1930s, hospital soap operas, and Playboy video centerfolds. There's a charity drive in which legendary bluesman B.B. King pleas for donations to help "Blacks Without Soul," and Ed Begley Jr. thinks he's the son of the Invisible Man, which would be fine if he weren't as visible as everyone else. The various sketches feature an all-star cast including Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne, Carrie Fisher, Michelle Pfeiffer, the late Phil Hartman in an early role, and many others. It's strictly hit-or-miss, and many of the sketches fall flat, especially since the subjects being spoofed (the title sketch is a send-up of the actual 1954 movie Cat Women on the Moon) are funny enough without being satirized. Even though Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide describes most of the sketches as "astonishingly unfunny," this can be a very amusing movie if you're in the mood for a no-brainer with a lot of familiar Hollywood faces. Now a modest little cult film, it's the kind of disposable entertainment that maintains its appeal almost in spite of itself. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Never gets old.......2007-05-04

A classic cult comedy film ... the film is done as a series of connected shorts with a lot of subtle connections between the pieces. It has an all-star collection of comedic talent (similiar to "It's a Wild, Wild World). There are some very cute bits from the roast at the funeral to the suggestion that the Loch Ness monster was actually Jack the Ripper!

One caution, this is not necessarily a kiddie movie -- they won't get some of the jokes, and some of the film is inappropriate for the younger gang.

Not bad, Not Great.......2007-01-09

Okay so I got this because it was kind of like the sequel to Kentucky Fried Movie which I absolutely love. You can certainly tell that this title is fitting because like so many "sequels" it doesn't live up to the previous attempt. However, it does serve up some laughs, albeit uncomfortable ones at times. For instance I enjoyed the funeral/roast about half way through the movie. And the centerpiece movie, "Amazon Women on the Moon" was pretty amusing. It was like so many old cereals, cheesy special effects and models, over-the-top acting, all shot in what looks like Arizona desert with the sun shining so they didn't even try to cover that up which I thought was funny. So as far as sketch movies go this one was amusing but if you are looking for something that will leave you laughing even after its over like Kentucky Fried Movie, you'll probably be disappointed.

A lot funnier than might be expected.......2006-12-18

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.

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 admit it.

One of the Better Skit Compilation Movies.......2006-11-06

I love this movie. It starts with a virtually unknown Arsenio Hall having a VERY bad day, moves on to multiple "commercials" with Don "No Soul" Simmons, portrayed by David Allen Grier, and includes a roast of a dead guy, complete with Rip Taylor and Slappy White. Worth; glad to see it on DVD!

A plus.......2006-08-06

They really just don't make comedies like this all hall AWOTM!!!!!!!I heard they were going to make a part two.

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