Review of Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) by Stuart K — 07 Feb 2013
John Landis masterminded this sketch film, which he co-directed with Joe Dante, Robert K. Weiss, Carl Gottlieb and Peter Horton, it done by Landis between ¡Three Amigos! (1986) and Coming to America (1988), and he saw it as a return to the anthology sketch format of The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), only this has less successful sketches, but when they're funny, they're funny, when they're not.
.. The film is meant to relate to the experience of flicking through the channels on television late at night, but the main focus is a B-Movie sci-fi called Amazon Women on the Moon, which is being shown on WIDB-TV Channel 8.
The film has Captain Nelson (Steve Forrest) and his crew Blackie (Robert Colbert) and Butch (Joey Travolta) exploring the moon, getting to meet Queen Lara (Sybil Danning), and escaping from monsters. However, the broadcast is having technical problems, including adverts and infomercials for various products and even talk shows while the broadcasters try to get the film fixed and the rest of it shown.
It's a bit of a ramshackle film, and that's the major fault of sketch films, they lose focus after so long, but there's some funny sketches with a cast including Carrie Fisher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steve Guttenberg, Rosanna Arquette, B.
B. King and Ed Begley, Jr.
This review of Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) was written by Stuart K on 07 Feb 2013.
Amazon Women on the Moon has generally received mixed reviews.
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