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" (???)}

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 remember to guard against becoming impure.

Sebastian1966 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!

Tommy Nelson Starring: Steve Forrest, Robert Colbert, Joey Travolta, David Allen Grier, Sybil Danning, Belinda Balaski, Archie Hahn, Henry Silva, Steve Allen, Rip Taylor, Slappy White, Charlie Callas, Henry Youngman, Jackie Vernon, Michelle Pfieffer, Peter Horton, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg, Rosanna Arquette, Carrie Fisher, Paul Bartel, Arsenio Hall, Lana Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr., Robert Picardo, William Marshall, Matt Adler, Ralph Bellamy, Monique Gabrielle, Joe Pantoliano, Forrest J Ackerman, BB King, John Ingle, Kelly Preston, Phil Hartman, Steve Cropper, Howard Hesseman, Andrew Dice Clay, Corinnie Wahl, Marc McClure, Russ Meyer and others.This is what sketch comedy is made of. This is a theatrical release motion picture that features 25 sketches, some connecting, some totally random. It's supposed to give you the feel of channel surfing through old movies, commercials for stupid products and just some funny random stuff. It's presented by John Landis and he also directed several of the segments, in this sequel (?) to 1977's "Kentucky Fried Movie".The main stories are "Amazon Women on the Moon", which is a cheap 1950's sci-fi movie that is purposely as cheesy as possible. "Blacks With No Souls" is another storyline that comes in several times in the movie, about Don Simmons who is a souless black singer that's just all to stupid. "Bullsh*t or Not?" is a reinacment fact or fiction type show hosted by Henry Silva. In the episode in this film he ponders if Jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster and if the Titanic was real or not."Murray in TV Land" is about old man Murray getting trapped in his TV and getting changed from channel to channel and is a running gag in the film.The other sketches include Arsenio Hall having a bad day when he gets totally massacred in his apartment by freak accidents. A sketch about a Playhouse Plaything and he she survives in life...fully naked. An invisible man that's not so invisible. Joe Pantalino as a hair loss victim. It's pretty easy to get into the sketches. It just feels good for some reason to channel flip through a bunch of random and stupid stuff. Some say it's not funny, because the stuff on their is actually the kind of lame junk you would fin on TV, but the humor is there, and it's funny. I totally recommend this especially with friends.My rating: 3/4 stars. 84 mins. rated R for full frontal nudity, sexuality, some violence and brief language.