Amazon Women on the Moon

Amazon Women on the Moon

Contrary to popular rumor, this 1987 collection of comedy skits is not about a group of female employees from Amazon.com on a mission to the lunar surface. It's a series of unrelated spoofs and sketches designed to resemble an aimless night of TV channel-surfing, and the satirical targets include grade-Z science fiction films of the 1950s, sex films of the 1930s, hospital soap operas, and Playboy video centerfolds. There's a charity drive in which legendary bluesman B.B. King pleas for donations to help "Blacks Without Soul," and Ed Begley Jr. thinks he's the son of the Invisible Man, which would be fine if he weren't as visible as everyone else. The various sketches feature an all-star cast including Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne, Carrie Fisher, Michelle Pfeiffer, the late Phil Hartman in an early role, and many others. It's strictly hit-or-miss, and many of the sketches fall flat, especially since the subjects being spoofed (the title sketch is a send-up of the actual 1954 movie Cat Women on the Moon) are funny enough without being satirized. Even though Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide describes most of the sketches as "astonishingly unfunny," this can be a very amusing movie if you're in the mood for a no-brainer with a lot of familiar Hollywood faces. Now a modest little cult film, it's the kind of disposable entertainment that maintains its appeal almost in spite of itself. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director(s): John Landis, Robert K. Weiss
Stars: Jr. Ed Begley, Rosanna Arquette, Steve Guttenberg, Carrie Fisher, Arsenio Hall
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
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R (Restricted)
Year:
1987
85
$548,696
1,538 Views

B.B. King:
Did you know that every 8 minutes, a black person is born in this country with no soul?

Son of the Invisible Man:
Being invisible is the best.

Henny Youngman:
Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it. Why do Jewish guys die before their wives? They want to.

Slappy White:
But I was asked to say a couple of words about Harvey. How about "ugly" and "cheap"? Harvey wrote his will on his cock, and his lawyer said it would not stand up in court.

Bernice Pitnik:
I'm glad to see Slappy White here today. Now at least I know my hubcaps are safe. And Rip Taylor, is that a toupee, or did a beaver curl up and die on your head? As I look at Henny Youngman today, I'm not so sure we're burying the right guy.

Murray:
Where am I?

Selma:
On the Disney Channel. At least there I know you won't catch anything.

Taryn Steele:
I have grown so much since then. I can't hardly believe it's me. I am a beach person and a night person. I'm really sorry for everybody who doesn't live in California, because we got it all, the mountains, the sun.

Steve Allen:
Harvey himself is gonna throw in his two cents as soon as we take 'em off his eyelids.

Rip Taylor:
What's this, an audience or a funeral? Now, pay attention, please. But I'm a little nervous because Harvey was a personal friend of mine, and there's not a person in this room that Harvey Pitnik did not touch. I must say, he touched me for 40 bucks and Steve for 20.

Rip Taylor:
But I do feel for his widow, Bernice. That was a romantic marriage. She learned everything about sex from a manual. Immanuel was their gardener.

Rip Taylor:
I'm sorry, I better wrap it up now, folks. 'Cause you know the old axiom in show business - 'get off quick.' Like Harvey on his wedding night.

Slappy White:
But in conclusion, I'd like to say congratulations, Harvey. Rigor mortis is the closest you've ever come to a hard-on in 15 years.

Apartment Victim:
No, man, there ain't no Thelma here!

Apartment Victim:
The b*tch don't live here!

Apartment Victim:
F*** you, too!

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