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Summary: Another Favorite
Review: It's another Austin Powers, Wayne's World, Brady Bunch Movie, Police Academy or George of the Jungle.
As a kid, this was one of my favorite movies. Not too long ago, I bought this disc. This movie is STILL fun.
It was recently spoofed in Austin Powers in Goldmember. The remote was in the form of a key and the satellite was on Dr. Evil's submarine. They "Key/Remote" was even in a jewlery long box like in ST.
As a kid, my favorite part was when the Knables were cartoon mice, now my favorite scenes involve Mister Spike. I've finally discovered how funny Jeffrey Jones is. I need more of his movies...
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Summary: Fresh and innovative script
Review: John Ritter and wife get sucked into TV hell and have to survive all manner of perilous (and hilarious) situations for 24 hours to get back to reality. Similar to Delirious (John Candy), only funnier.
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Summary: Tune In, Turn On, and Drop that Remote
Review: Or you'll be sucked into a hell-like television world of etertainment where anything is but ordinary television. Roy Knable (John Ritter) is a lazy couch potato. Is life is all about TV. I mean, don't get me wrong, here, I love television just as the guy does. But would you have been insance enough to sell your soul to the devil for a new TV satellite dish? Apparently that is what Roy decided to do when a devilish executive (Jeffrey Jones) comes over to make all of his dreams come true. Not only does Roy gets to enjoy classic TV, he gets to live it as well. If they can survive the world of fantasy TV, then a new portal opens and they are able to get out of the demononically morphed television world. But it appears that the only real way to get back into reality would simply distroy the devil exec, and everything will return to normal. Hopefully. It would be nice to be able to travel through the worldly teleworld dimension. But the real question is, would you be able to make it back? This fun-filled comedy adventure is a couch potato of laughs.
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Summary: Don't Change That Remote!
Review: Or you'll be sucked into a hell-like television world of etertainment where anything is but ordinary television. Roy Knable (John Ritter) is a lazy couch potato. Is life is all about TV. I mean, don't get me wrong, here, I love television just as the guy does. But would you have been insance enough to sell your soul to the devil for a new TV satellite dish? Apparently that is what Roy decided to do when a devilish executive (Jeffrey Jones) comes over to make all of his dreams come true. Not only does Roy gets to enjoy classic TV, he gets to live it as well. If they can survive the world of fantasy TV, then a new portal opens and they are able to get out of the demononically morphed television world. But it appears that the only real way to get back into reality would simply distroy the devil exec, and everything will return to normal. Hopefully. It would be nice to be able to travel through the worldly teleworld dimension. But the real question is, would you be able to make it back? This fun-filled comedy adventure is a couch potato of laughs.
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Summary: For the television conisseur
Review: Pam Dawber and the late John Ritter are Helen and Roy Knable who end up in a world of television. Helen is so fed up with Roy's addiction to television that she ends up leaving him. Their kids stay with Roy and the kids themselves join their parents in the world of television. Roy finds himself in drag,as an animated mouse and in a black-and-white detective drama. What's even cooler is that Roy is on the set of Three's Company,Ritter's legendary classic sitcom. Two unknown actresses as Janet and Chrissy,walk into the apartment and ask Roy in unison,"Where have you been?". Ritter actually reprised his role of Jack Tripper for a short time! There's also Duane's Underworld on Saturday Night Dead,a parody of Saturday Night Live's Wayne's World. Duane and his sidekick,both ghouls,have Roy on the show and rave about Helen's physical beauty("Schwing!"). The Knables' kids get their mom and dad out of TV and back into the real world. Dawber's sitcom Mork & Mindy,a spinoff of Happy Days,ran on ABC from 1978 to 1982,during the tenure of Three's Company,another ABC sitcom(1977-1984). I dedicate this film to the memory of Ritter(9/17/48-9/11/03).
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Summary: 666 channels is a "hell" of a lot
Review: Roy Knable (John Ritter) "Real men "(1987), is a plumbing supplies salesman and he does not like his job. So he buries himself in TV. His wife Helen (Pam Dawber) thinks he is not a doer anymore and he is not fun. He just will not talk to her during double overtime.
Spike (Jeffery Jones), you may recognize him as the principal in "Farris Bueller's Day Off" (1986), recognizes a soul snatching opportunity when he sees one. He offers Roy 666 channels that are not seen on regular TV. The creators of this movie were real creative with the channel selection.
Surprise Roy & Helen are drawn into TV land where they are destined to wander from channel to channel until they learn a little about themselves and each other. Spike is sort of hoping to bump them off in one of several ways before 24 hours is up.
Will Spike have his way?
Will Roy realize the error of his ways?
Will Helen get blown up and ran over?
Stay tuned.
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Summary: John Ritter Really Shines In This One!
Review: STAY TUNED is one of those farce fully fun movies that you just watch to be entertained and enjoy. It was directed by (and photographer - D.P.) Peter Hymes (2010:The Year We Make Contact) and it stars John Ritter and Pam Dawber (two TV veterans) as a husband and wife that suffer the midlife crisis that every family faces. John is way to tuned into the television that it becomes the catalyst to separate their marriage.Enter the Devil himself - or at least one of his co-workers, played hysterically by Jeffrey Jones and an incompetent sidekick played by Eugene Levy - and you got a plot the Devil would even enjoy. Both Pam and John are sucked into the TV and when there, start by switching around from channel to channel in Hell Vision. The parodies and the shows the mock and parody are hysterical. There is even a skip into STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION and an immensely funny zap into the set of THREE'S COMPANY - which terrifies John Ritter. I must admit John is the best thing about this movie. Son of the famous Tex Ritter, his comic timing and prat falls are the best. He has a way to make the silliest things very funny. I always thought his talents have always been underrated. Like the 80's version of (Dick Van Dyke.) His energy and enthusiasm is contagious. Pam Dawber and kids to an okay job, but it definitely Johns and Jeffrey's movie. The good and Evil personified in the Television world. The DVD are not many, but the do have the original trailers and the behind the scenes documentary with original cast and crew comments and behind the scenes footage. I like this movie for the sheer fact that at certain times I can be a couch potato and in a strange way this is a fantasy version of what can happen if you never get away from it. It's Fun! (8-25-02)
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Summary: John Ritter sucked into TV land.
Review: Synopsis:
John Ritter stars as Roy Knable, a true couch potato whose life and marriage is disintegrating around his ears as he watches TV to escape it all. On the same night that his wife Helen (Pam Dawber) intends to leave him, a mysterious salesman named Spike (Jeffrey Jones) appears to sell Roy a new television set, complete with a gigantic satellite dish that will beam 666 channels right into Roy's living room. Yet something goes awry when Roy and his wife get sucked onto the satellite dish and enter the hellish world of Satan TV. From there it is a frantic rush to survive before time runs out. About the Movie:
Stay Tuned is probably one of my favorite comedic movies. I first saw it in the early 90's and when I saw that it had come out on DVD I jumped at the chance to get it. Stay Tuned is filled with slapstick humor, a great many very twisted comic plays on classic television clichés and TV shows. Among them are Saturday Night Live, Star Trek The Next Generation, Three's Company, WWF, and classic cartoons. The cartoon is presented in a wonderfully delightful animated sequence that was actually supervised in production by the legendary animator Chuck Jones (who did many of the Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons.) This is truly at the top of the films John Ritter starred in. Ritter's comic timing help make this film. While this film never got much notice, it certainly is an excellent example of why John Ritter's comedic career managed to span over 2 decades. He was very good as what he did. Veteran comic Eugene Levy ("SCTV" and "American Pie") also plays a major role in this film as Crowley, a down and out Hell TV Exec who helps the Knables on their journey. He manages to play the lovable slimeball quite entertainingly. Jeffrey Jones plays the bad guy, Hell TV's CEO, Spike. He's a great actor for the bad guy in a comedy, and he manages to be convincingly evil and funny at the same time without making the role look stupid, as tends to happen to bad guys in slapstick comedies these days. With John Ritter's comic timing and Pam Dawber playing the straight-man as they tumble from demented channel to demented channel, this film is great for a lot of laughs. About the DVD:
Stay Tuned comes in a cardboard DVD snap case, marking it as budget fare. It is presented in widescreen format with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Both the picture and sound are pretty good. I did not notice any issues with either. The DVD comes translated into French (why no Spanish?) and has English, French and Spanish subtitles. For special features, the DVD comes with an extended theatrical trailer, cast info and a behind the scenes featurette look at the movie. The cast info is simply a list of actors in the film. They don't even provide bios for them, making this a clear case of beefing up content with minimum effort. The featurette is the type that they used to show on television just before the movie came out, with interviews with the cast that are completely unenlightening if you have seen the movie. It's only mildly interesting. The bad side is that the music which plays behind the commentator is outright annoying through the first quarter of it. This DVD release is a pretty standard no frills release. Overall, a great movie on a standard unexciting DVD release. 4 stars
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Summary: John Ritter sucked into TV land.
Review: Synopsis:
John Ritter stars as Roy Knable, a true couch potato whose life and marriage is disintegrating around his ears as he watches TV to escape it all. On the same night that his wife Helen (Pam Dawber) intends to leave him, a mysterious salesman named Spike (Jeffrey Jones) appears to sell Roy a new television set, complete with a gigantic satellite dish that will beam 666 channels right into Roy's living room. Yet something goes awry when Roy and his wife get sucked onto the satellite dish and enter the hellish world of Satan TV. From there it is a frantic rush to survive before time runs out. About the Movie:
Stay Tuned is probably one of my favorite comedic movies. I first saw it in the early 90's and when I saw that it had come out on DVD I jumped at the chance to get it. Stay Tuned is filled with slapstick humor, a great many very twisted comic plays on classic television clichés and TV shows. Among them are Saturday Night Live, Star Trek The Next Generation, Three's Company, WWF, and classic cartoons. The cartoon is presented in a wonderfully delightful animated sequence that was actually supervised in production by the legendary animator Chuck Jones (who did many of the Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons.) This is truly at the top of the films John Ritter starred in. Ritter's comic timing help make this film. While this film never got much notice, it certainly is an excellent example of why John Ritter's comedic career managed to span over 2 decades. He was very good as what he did. Veteran comic Eugene Levy ("SCTV" and "American Pie") also plays a major role in this film as Crowley, a down and out Hell TV Exec who helps the Knables on their journey. He manages to play the lovable slimeball quite entertainingly. Jeffrey Jones plays the bad guy, Hell TV's CEO, Spike. He's a great actor for the bad guy in a comedy, and he manages to be convincingly evil and funny at the same time without making the role look stupid, as tends to happen to bad guys in slapstick comedies these days. With John Ritter's comic timing and Pam Dawber playing the straight-man as they tumble from demented channel to demented channel, this film is great for a lot of laughs. About the DVD:
Stay Tuned comes in a cardboard DVD snap case, marking it as budget fare. It is presented in widescreen format with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Both the picture and sound are pretty good. I did not notice any issues with either. The DVD comes translated into French (why no Spanish?) and has English, French and Spanish subtitles. For special features, the DVD comes with an extended theatrical trailer, cast info and a behind the scenes featurette look at the movie. The cast info is simply a list of actors in the film. They don't even provide bios for them, making this a clear case of beefing up content with minimum effort. The featurette is the type that they used to show on television just before the movie came out, with interviews with the cast that are completely unenlightening if you have seen the movie. It's only mildly interesting. The bad side is that the music which plays behind the commentator is outright annoying through the first quarter of it. This DVD release is a pretty standard no frills release. Overall, a great movie on a standard unexciting DVD release. 4 stars
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: The Knable are a Seattle couple which husband Roy(Ritter) has a lousy job and all the time he is watching Tv. His wife fed up with his behaviour and the new Tv system he buys left him alone and when his wife was about to destroy the satellite dish they are sucked by the dish and transported to a world of the Hellvision. A world of Tv with the risk of being eliminated if they loose. So they must escape and change from the different channels until they spent 24 hours.If they survive,they'll find salvation. Contains a lot of Tv parody as well the Salt'n Pepa Hit Start me up. I enjoyed it a lot.
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