1977 comedy
Rating: 12/20
Plot: Comedy!
The humor and the targets for humor are slightly dated in this, but it's a kind of pioneer for this 80's brand of throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks comedy. It certainly puts its dick in a lot of pies--sometimes a raunchy sex comedy, sometimes stepping (or maybe awkwardly falling) over boundaries, sometimes delivering Python-esque absurdism. Mostly, it's just here to be silly, and when it's just silly and not mean spirited, it almost works.
I might have chuckled a single time, at a post-beheading joke in the super-long Enter the Dragon parody. That sequence was well done, only slightly marred by a goofy ending with a too-easy allusion. I might have enjoyed a courtroom episode the best, probably because I have a high pain threshold for terrible puns. That sequence reminded me the most of Airplane, the Zuckers/Abraham-penned comedy that is more successful with these sort of shenanigans. Also almost effective were the "feel-around theater," and the one about zinc oxide. I'll also never object to seeing a scene where a dwarf dressed as a clown whips "Catholic girls in trouble." The dwarf is played by Felix Silla who was also Twiki in Buck Rogers and Misquamacus in The Manitou. He also played an Ewok.
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