Smokey Bites the Dust

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Audience Member It's cheesy, but loved it back in the 80's! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Redneck entertainment from Roger Corman at its absolute worst. Basically a 90-minute car chase loaded with crashes, auto thefts and random destruction with two less-than-charismatic leads. It seems the entire mess could be avoided if the Sheriff just waited for his daughter to come home on her own. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member After months of planning, the big day arrives as the town sweetheart Peggy-Sue Turner (Janet Julian) prepares for her debut as Homecoming Queen, while her father, Sherrif Turner (Walter Barnes) keeps a constant vigil on his pride and joy. Meanwhile, high-school senior Roscoe (Jimmy McNichol) has secret plans for Peggy-Sue, plotting her abduction at the Homecoming ceremony. The sherrif leads a posse of police cars in hot persuit. They are no contest for the devil kidnapper however, whose clever manoevers send police cars flying in all directions. Crash follows spectacular crash as the hapless police hilariously destroy their own fleet. also stars Patrick Campbell, Kari Lizer, John Blythe Barrymore, Kedric Wolfe and William Forsythe. directed by Charles B. Griffith. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member With "Smokey and the Bandit" and its sequel being huge hits in 1977 and 1980 respectively it comes as no surprise that rip-off king producer Roger Corman would jump on the comical 'good 'ol boy' chase film bandwagon (like you couldn't tell what film it ripped off from the title). This alone doesn't mean it's going to be unwatchable as Corman produced many loveable rip-offs in his heyday: "Piranha" was a loveable rip-off "Jaws" and "Big Bad Mama" was a loveable rip-off of "Bonnie and Clyde." Well "Smokey Bites the Dust" is from the director of the mega lame "Jaws" rip-off "Up From the Depths" and is a pieced together project stitched around stock footage of previous, much better Corman productions. In other words this royally sucks. A high school jackass kidnaps the homecoming queen ('kidnaps' is not really the proper term as she really gets taken willingly) and he leads all the police in the county on a high speed chase. That's about it. This pieced together monstrosity will give many viewers a sense of dà (C)jà vu as it takes stock chase footage from "Grand Theft Auto," "Moving Violation," "Eat My Dust!," and "Thunder and Lightening" and haphazardly throws them between newly shot footage of our annoying characters trying to give 'exposition'. So basically we get 80 minutes of mindless chase sequences intermitted with unwatchable plot sequences with horrid acting and feeble comedy. The main high school character is a poor man's rip-off of the roles played by Ron Howard in his Corman productions and the comedy is just painful, with cartoon sound effects just making it bad enough to warrant the audience to vomit into their popcorn boxes. "Smokey Bites the Dust" is bad, god-awful. It's so god damn bad that it even makes "Smokey and the Bandit Part 3" look like a respectable sequel. It's a cluster fucked mess that insults redneck audiences that even like the southern good 'ol boy chase flicks. Do yourself a favor and re-watch "Smokey and the Bandit" or one of the four films this poorly sewn together non-effort pulls it's stock footage from. At least with those films you're guaranteed a complete film with no stolen footage. "Smokey Bites the Dust" was released in a wonderful DVD triple feature from Shout Factory! alongside "Georgia Peaches" and "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase". Out of all three films "Smokey Bites the Dust" is the only one given the poor "Pan & Scan" full screen treatment. If there was ever a film to deserve the full screen treatment... it's "Smokey Bites the Dust". Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member What do you get when you combine car chase movies with the teen high school comedy? This piece of shit! One of the few films that can make car chases boring. It's from 1981, but looks like 1976. The DVD is so murky you can hardly see faces. Just a real waste. Except that some of the car gags are actually really good, and the mash up is so bizarre, it keeps you watching. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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