Film
What's on at the cinema plus reviews of the latest movie and DVD releases
Bookmark this pageAmazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Director: John Landis, Joe Dante, Robert K Weiss, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A formless compendium of sketches very loosely parodying late-night American television. The tone veers from slapstick (the predictable but delightfully over-the-top opening sketch about the perils of condo-life) through stodgy satire (the excesses of computer dating) to smutty silliness (Video Date). The overall result, unsurprisingly, is patchy in the extreme. Weiss' title piece - fragments guying the portentous scripts, wooden acting and non-existent budgets of Z-grade '50s sci-fi movies - is obvious but occasionally spot-on with its appalling sets and repetitive use of the same bit of landscape; Dante's Critics Corner, in which a pair of TV reviewers turn from movies like Winter of My Despondency to real lives, is pleasantly dark; and Landis' own Blacks Without Soul, featuring singing dork Don Simmons, who 'turned a personal affliction into a career', is a gem of brevity and precision. Slim pickings.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: John Landis, Joe Dante, Robert K Weiss, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton
Producer: Robert K Weiss
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg, Monique Gabrielle, Michelle Pfeiffer full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 84 mins
Most popular on this site
Top Stories
James Marsh on ‘Man on Wire’
James Marsh tells David Jenkins the amazing story of ‘Man on Wire’ and how he saw the Twin Towers go up – and come down
Gurinder Chada on ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’
Gurinder Chada, the director of Brit hit, 'Bend it Like Beckham' discusses her new film, ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ with Wally Hammond
A holiday guide to movie dystopias
‘Going anywhere nice this summer, sir?’ To celebrate the release of Pixar’s sublime post-apocalyptic robo-romance ‘Wall-E’, Time Out offers a tour guide of the best future worlds in film
Eddie Murphy's Crimes Against Cinema
We all remember the comic highs of 'Beverly Hills Cop' and 'Bowfinger', but Eddie Murphy has been in a fair few stinkers as well. Time Out to presents a handy rundown of his ten darkest cinematic hours...
What do you think?
Post your review now