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      Amazon Women on the Moon

      R 1987 1h 25m Comedy List
      65% 20 Reviews Tomatometer 58% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score In this film of unconnected humor sketches, bad movies and late-night television are parodied extensively. A doctor (Griffin Dunne) has to help Brenda (Michelle Pfeiffer) give birth, with unexpected results. In "Son of the Invisible Man," Griffin (Ed Begley Jr.) is actually more naked than invisible. Among the many other segments, there is a spoof of alarmist 1950s hygiene instructional films featuring a woman (Carrie Fisher) being harshly advised about her new sexually transmitted disease. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Roger Corman presents another one of his comedies much like Monty Python and David Zucker A mixture of 1950s satirical science-fiction movies and interspersing some spoof commercials Tons of celebrity cameos from Joe Pantoliano to Michelle Pfeiffer to Sybil Danning to Rosanna Arquette to Carrie Fisher to Kelly Preston to BB King to Jenny Agutter to Steve Gutenberg It's funny how the title is shown twice yet the actual moon portion doesn't happen until 20 minutes later At that point the ads created keep popping up to sell the satire of our addiction to television They poke fun at everything from childbirth to hair growth to political party support to the complicated world of dating to mystery shows to reviewing cinema to home video rentals The Amazon women section plays like a parody of planet of the apes right down to 3 astronauts landing on an unknown world, only in this scenario it's populated by strictly women The narrative is very scattershot in this but it's all about providing some good chuckles The very last skit involving a guy who rents a videotape is my favorite if I do say so myself going from sizzling to straight up funny This duplicates watching late night tv in the 80s that's for sure Sure of the skits miss the mark more than others but it's all good fun regardless Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/19/23 Full Review Steve D Never funny and no story. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/31/23 Full Review Audience Member But dated but probably also ahead of it’s times 2.5 Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/07/23 Full Review kevin c This is a mish mash of running gags and comedy sketches featuring a cast of well known stars such as Steve Gutenberg, Arsenio Hall, Sybil Danning, Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer and many more. Most of these sketches are genuinely funny and still hold up today. Quite a fun revisit. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 7/10 quirky, strange, funny. Not for everybody. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member I really don't know what I found soo fun about this when I was younger. Was it REALLY just all the boobs...? As with most sketch movies, it's uneven. Some segments work, some don't. Most here though are groaners. Still though, there's a couple skits that still work like gangbusters. The Invisible Man and Video Pirates ones in particular. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/26/20 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Variety Staff Variety Amazon Women on the Moon is irreverent, vulgar and silly and has some hilarious moments and some real groaners too. Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Geoff Andrew Time Out Slim pickings. Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Janet Maslin New York Times An anarchic, often hilarious adventure in dial-spinning, a collection of brief skits and wacko parodies that are sometimes quite clever, though they're just as often happily sophomoric, too. Rated: 3.5/5 May 20, 2003 Full Review Kathy Fennessy Seattle Film Blog Amazon Women on the Moon duplicates the experience of watching late-night TV in the 1980s... Rated: 3/4 Mar 6, 2022 Full Review Craig D. Lindsey Crooked Marquee There appears to be a running, eerily prophetic theme in Amazon, as most of the skits deal with how advancements in technology - particularly television and home video - often sabotage our lives. Aug 30, 2021 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Hit-and-miss. The best skit features Ed Begley Jr. as the son of the Invisible Man. Rated: 2.5/4 Nov 14, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis In this film of unconnected humor sketches, bad movies and late-night television are parodied extensively. A doctor (Griffin Dunne) has to help Brenda (Michelle Pfeiffer) give birth, with unexpected results. In "Son of the Invisible Man," Griffin (Ed Begley Jr.) is actually more naked than invisible. Among the many other segments, there is a spoof of alarmist 1950s hygiene instructional films featuring a woman (Carrie Fisher) being harshly advised about her new sexually transmitted disease.
      Director
      Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss
      Production Co
      Universal/Universal Int
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jun 1, 2004
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $388.2K
      Runtime
      1h 25m