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Summary: As funny as ever
Review: Like most fans of this movie, I saw it several times in the 80's on the USA Network's "Night Flight" show, but somehow never had the foresight to tape it. When I found that it was to be released on DVD, I was delighted, but a little apprehensive. After all, it had been at least 15 years since I'd seen the film, and I was a bit afraid that it had lost it's humor in all that time.Well, my fears were unfounded, both my wife (who'd never seen the film) and I have watched the new DVD several times, and found it to still be laugh out loud hysterical. This is a very welcome release, well worth the wait, and as funny as you remember it.
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Summary: As funny as ever
Review: Like most fans of this movie, I saw it several times in the 80's on the USA Network's "Night Flight" show, but somehow never had the foresight to tape it. When I found that it was to be released on DVD, I was delighted, but a little apprehensive. After all, it had been at least 15 years since I'd seen the film, and I was a bit afraid that it had lost it's humor in all that time. Well, my fears were unfounded, both my wife (who'd never seen the film) and I have watched the new DVD several times, and found it to still be laugh out loud hysterical. This is a very welcome release, well worth the wait, and as funny as you remember it.
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Summary: Instant Classic
Review: My family stumbled across this movie several years ago, purely by accident. Luckily, my uncle had the foresight to hit record on the VCR. Since then, we have probably made 20 dubs off of that tape as we continue to wearout tape after tape! No matter how hard we searched, all attempts to obtain an original copy have always come up short--until now! "J-Men Forever" is the definitive screwball comedy! The guys from Firesign Theatre splice together old cliffhangers and their comedic dialogue to make a comedy that is truly unbelieveable. If you don't find yourself quoting the Caped Madman or Rocket Jock after watching this movie, you must have fallen asleep.
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Summary: Nice transfer of a cult classic, with extras.
Review: My wife and I loved this movie when it was on USA's Night Flight. We managed to record it but that recording was getting pretty worn out. We've been making a list of all the clips we've found in their original movies. This DVD has some nice extras including an interview with Commando Cody, aka George Wallace.
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Summary: 75 Minutes Of Inspired Parody!!
Review: Remember all those cliffhanger serials from the 1930's and 40's from RKO and Republic Studios, like "Shazam!", "Captain America", "Buck Rogers", "Atomic Man" and not to mention all those G-men episodes? In '79 they were all pared down and hilariously recut (with new dialogue and story) into the most hysterical - and most politically incorrect - movie I bet you've never seen. Courtesy of the hip comedy troupe known as Firesign Theatre. The instant cult status this movie achieved on late-night cable TV in the early 80's, paved the way for Steve Martin's modestly successful and more mainstream attempt at that kind of concept called "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". But, Firesign's effort is more contraversial, subversive, outrageous and silly - and, moreover, far funnier. The plot, such as it is, is about the straight-as-an-arrow, but definitely un-hip, mixed bag of government agents and superheroes at war with the hip, but hilariously (and deliriously) power-mad, disguise-changing, rock-and-roll ruler of the Moon, and his minions, bent on dominating Earth - their secret weapon? - potentially deadly doses of rock music! And, if that's not enough, controlled substances which can turn Earth's citizens into slaves! It's up to the government to fight back the only way they know how - with muzak! This is not only a send-up of those Hollywood vehicles themselves, but also a second look at them using what one critic calls the "more drastically hip filter which we, at almost anytime since the relatively drug-crazed 70's at least, now can't help but see them through". It's sex, drugs and rock and roll vs. the establishment, like you've never quite seen it before, as the classic war is hysterically and slyly grafted onto the cliffhangers themselves. The result is purely outrageous camp! Definitely a good thing here. This flick is sheer provocative fun and has more quotable dialogue, per minute of run time, than almost any other movie I can think of. But, due to its obvious references to pot smoking and innuendo, this is certainly not for your kids. For that matter, it's not for your parents either! While it may push the envelope, some will see it all as a big (but ultimately harmless enough) joke and others will see it as one of the most flagrantly pro-marajuana comedies ever made(!) - a.k.a. "The Day The Earth Got Stoned". But try not to let that throw you too much - to its credit, it's gotta be the absolutely non-stop funniest look at that ever-increasingly taboo subject there is, and I'd like to imagine you're only cheating yourself if you miss it :-). This movie ran a handful of times on a show called "USA's Night Flight", but was yanked when the movie drew too much flak - even though, by that time, it had also become "Night Flight"'s most requested video. According to the back cover of the DVD, it remained so for that show's entire run of 8 years. If it ever made it to VHS shortly thereafter, it was a very limited run, and, as a result, this movie hasn't been widely seen. That it's now being released on video at all, after so many years, must mean that either PC is on the wane, or that some overworked, underpaid censor unwittingly let this one slip through. In any case, I suggest you snap this one up, before the so-called "powers-that-be" come to their senses (and before John Ashcroft launches his own "Operation Interrupt"! - see the movie). Insanely funny camp, with an underground edge. WAY recommended!!
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Summary: At last, after years of searching!!
Review: That music made me so horny even those three geeks look good. A little lower and I'd be the caped mad-woman. Ahhh! Rubber spider venom! Lood at your boobs, now look at me. He was following me closely, I pretended not to notice. Owww! My knee! These are a few of the lines that my husband and I have been getting strange looks for ever since taping this off of Night Flight back in the 80s. Now maybe someone else will finally know what I'm talking about when I affectionatly call my husband Yank Smellfinger. If people keep telling you that you have a weird sense of humor and you find yourself laughing while others around you are looking confused, YOU MUST see this movie!!
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Summary: I am hi ho copper
Review: This movie is one of the best ever movies i have seen on latenight TV. had 2 recordings of it and both were defeated in the same week 4 years ago. Like the rest of you I have searched for the elusive J-Men ever since and am over joyed that my holidays will be filled with J-Men cheer. "what do you think of this? looks like a bad case of the crabs boss.. HAHAHAHAHA thats not funny.
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