Skidoo

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Frank P This is one of those 'so bad that it's good' movies. This is right up there with Plan 9 From Outer Space. Amazingly awful. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/21/23 Full Review delysid d you know you've seen too many movies if you are watching this one Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/17/21 Full Review mark s I was hoping it was going to be a 'so bad it's good' movie, but it was more akin to root canal surgery gone awry, and no amount of anesthesia would've made the pain subside. . . Watching Carol Channing marching through the boat singing the title song hurt my soul. Really, really hurt it. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review dave s Skidoo is proof that Otto Preminger and comedy should have never mixed. It is also proof that those who seemingly know nothing about the counter culture of the ‘60s should never have made a movie that focuses on the counter culture of the ‘60s. What else does it prove? Don't ever let anyone talk you into singing the closing credits – very odd. Anything else? Oh, yeah…don't ever include a scene that involves choreographed dancing garbage cans. All of that aside, the cast (Jackie Gleason, Frankie Avalon, Groucho Marx, Carol Channing and many more) is, if nothing else, fascinating. You'd think, considering all of the big names involved, that somewhere along the way somebody would have asked the question "does anybody know what the hell we're doing here?" and then just canned the whole exercise. Sadly, the question was never asked. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is really, really under-rated. Its cinematography is the first thing that impressed me. It's not the cinematography of Scorsese, but its innovative use of title sequences and its TV-production value to me enhance the feeling this movie gives. The production, seen today on a 4K television, looks much like 60s television, and the fact that it's got a plethora of TV personalities, including 3 villains from the 60s Batman TV show underscores that. It's almost as if Preminger was directing and producing this to say "What if we made a TV comedy featuring gangsters, hippies and LSD?" Nobody's ever made such thing before or since. It's the funniest TV-like comedy featuring gangsters, hippies and LSD that's ever been made. And it is funny. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member When Bill Mulligan tells you a movie is terrible, you better believe him. I didn't listen, and I watched the horrendous misfire that is Skidoo (1968). That said, I'm glad I got a chance to experience its particular brand of awfulness myself. Some highlights/lowlights: - Groucho in his final film role. - Jackie Gleason on acid - A psychedelic ballet featuring trashcans dancing to a Harry Nilsson song about trash - Tons of cameos (mostly by folks over 40 in a film aimed at the youth of 1968) - Unfunny gags that go on way, way, way too long - Closing credits sung in their entirety(!) by Harry Nilsson Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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