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i put this on with great interest and anticipation, deliberately going in knowing little about it and with few expectations. within 2 minutes i thought "huh... i've never seen a screwball sci-fi before." now i know there's a reason for that.
there are other sci-fi movies out there with wacky hijinx (ice pirates is a favorite) and you could argue that spaceballs is a screwball comedy. but the parts of that movie that work best are long, well-written and quick-witted bits between some very good actors, often parodying a very specific star wars scene. it's an entirely different beast than this.
i'm tempted to just say this humor wasn't for me, but there's more to it than that. clearly some people think it's quite funny, whereas i thought it was possibly the least funny "comedy" i'd ever seen. (and i do think some allen films are funny.) i particularly don't like allen's films written with his co-writer here, marshall brickman. to me, they come off as thinking they're cleverer than they are, that kind of particular too-cool-for-hollywood pretentiousness that grates on me.
but writing aside, it's just not a very good movie, sorry. the special effects look one notch above a university student's film project. and that's judging them by the films of the time, so you might think "well, this is supposed to be a kind of representational performance art." but no, you'd be wrong. allen apparently fussed over the effects trying to get the plywood-covered golf carts and elementary school chemistry projects just right. the film is also hampered by being so centered on allen and his efforts to reproduce the writing of mel brooks and the performances of chaplin and keaton. he's not up to delivering the comedy of any of those greats. add in a healthy dose of none of the plot making much sense and the ridiculousness of allen as an action hero and there's just nothing i could enjoy about this film.
watching this was mind-numbing to me. i'd seen most of the parodies of the film done better by looney tunes years before. the pot shots at communists and timothy leary (the "dear leader") and the american federation of teachers (supposedly who nuked the us) are cheap and don't play. even allen's upbeat jazz score, though sometimes good, is an off-kilter distraction that doesn't match the film. for me, this was a string of unfunny one-liner setups and film student gags. i'm glad woody had fun with it, i sure didn't.
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