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Amazon Women On The Moon

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Intentionly wacky posters are the first sign of a problem.

Watching Amazon Women on the Moon is like watching an unfunny episode of Saturday Night Live.  That is too say it’s like watching an episode of Saturday Night Live.

Let’s clarify that, it’s like watching 1985 Saturday Night Live.

It is abysmally bad.  Now bad films often become cult classics.  The problem is that bad horror, bad drama, and bad sci-fi can often have the bonus of unintentional humor.  Bad comedies have no humor, they cannot give you unintentional drama, and you don’t want to see unintentional horror.

It is a series of unrelated sketch comedy bits. There are a couple of threads that they try to weave through the narrative but their hold is tenuous at best. Watching this film will find you waiting for the musical guest and then the fake news so you can turn it off and go to bed.  But the musical guest and fake news never comes…It never comes!

 

Let’s check this with the cultometer and see if this lifeless pile registers any reading at all.

 

Movie Quality

This movie has just enough of a budget to keep it from having that visual train wreck feel lots of cult films have. In short…

It has amazon babes!

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It Has Pirates!

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It has space rockets!!

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It even has a Monkey!!!

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So why does it suck so bad?

Cultometer Nudity

Warning male nudity!

We are treated to some very nice gratuitous nudity early in the film and then left hanging (figuratively of course) for a long time.  Then suddenly, BAM! Avert your eyes  or enrdure the horror of seeing Ed Begley Jr. naked.

 

Cult Status

Amazon Women On The Moon will forever be a non cult film.  It seems to have been intentionally made to be a cult flick, but that was its first mistake.  Cult status is like a nickname, you don’t pick it for yourself it is bestowed upon you whether you want or not.

also by lacking humor, gore, kitsch, horrible production values and over the top acting, it fails to appeal to a cult fans appetite in any way.  Leave this one at the video store.

But it has Carrie Fisher in Black and White. How can it not be a cult?

One Comment »

  • Steferscope said:

    Isn’t it funny how we never really want the nicknames bestowed upon us? Thank you for saving me from wasting the part of my life that would be the duration of this movie. Ed Begley, Jr. in the raw? Really? Blech!

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