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hat do you get when you take 5 directors (John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb and Peter Horton) and match them up with more than 50 actors all at various stages in their career? You get "Amazon Women On The Moon", an 80s version of 70s television satires like "The Groove Tube" and "Kentucky Fried Movie".
The movie purportedly is a classic Universal sci-fi release starring Forrest, Joey Travolta and Robert Colbert as astronauts who meet the beautiful title women on a space trip, and end up as hostages of their queen (Danning). The film is in such bad shape, though, that the station showing it holds our interest with shorts, commercials and spoofs. Examples of which include:
-The nightmarish condo of Hall
-The interesting life of model Taryn Steele (Monique Gabrielle)
-Jacobi and Erica Yohn as Murray and Selma, who deal with a TV that sends Murray through everything from the weather to a Huey Lewis & The News music video.
-Pfeiffer and Peter Horton as a couple given the run-around by doctor Griffin Dunne when they want to see their new baby
-Joe Pantoliano as Sy Swerdlow, who has invented a new tool for the balding man
-B.B King begging us to donate money to "Blacks Without Soul", most especially Don "No Soul" Simmons (Grier), who turns his affliction into a great career, with covers of songs from "Chim Chim Cheree" to Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World"
-Arquette and Steve Guttenberg in a prescient segment about how your history will catch up to you if you're not careful
-Silva as the host of a show that brings new ideas to the surface (you won't believe the real identity of Jack The Ripper)
-The death of the pathetic Harvey Pitnik (Archie Hahn), and the subsequent funeral that becomes a roast (Rip Taylor: "Harvey, the President couldn't be here tonight so he sends a wire [producing a wire hanger]. This is it, folks, I don't dance!")
-Ed Begley Jr. in an "Invisible Man" sequel
-Matt Adler, Kelly Preston, Ralph Bellamy and Howard Hesseman in the tale of how a young boy's journey into manhood brings him unwanted fame and fortune
-Marc McClure, Corinne Wahl and Andrew "Dice" Clay in an examination of a video date that ends in a murder-suicide and a frame-up.
It all ends with Don Simmons' reindition of "Blame It On The Bossa Nova" and an additional homage to the campy health class shorts of the 40s and 50s starring Carrie Fisher and Paul Bartel.
This movie is delightfully silly, with humor that ranges from dark ("Video Date") to randy (Taryn Steele) to simply off-the-wall (The Baby), as executed by a cast of seemingly half the actors working in Hollywood in 1987.
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The movie is goofy, and not to be taken heavily. It's a frothy, frenetic wise-acre comedy that is the best of the non-ZAZ spoofs. I rate this as a 9.
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There are numerous references to The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), also directed by John Landis. The film was seen by many as the prequel to this movie. 
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Time, sadly, has not been kind to some of this movie's cast members. While a few have died of old age (Ralph Bellamy, Henny Youngman), one cast member has met a more violent end. Lana Clarkson, who played the role of Alpha Beta, was murdered on February 2nd, 2003, in the home of famous producer Phil Spector. The actress, who also had small roles in "Scarface" and "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", was 40 years old, although her IMDB filmography placed her age at around 36 years old.
The names in the "Titan Man" sketch (George Bailey, Violet and Mr. Gower) are taken from It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
The name "Don 'No Soul' Simmons" keeps popping up.
Directors Trademark (John Landis): {Film-makers} Appearances by Director Russ Meyer, Composer Ira Newborn and "Famous Monsters of Filmland" editor Forest J. Ackerman.
The title card in Frankel & Herbert's review of "Frat Slobs," is actually from "National Lampoon's Animal House".
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Filming was completed in 1986, but the movie took a year to be released. Some commentators have speculated that this was due to the fact that it was made during the time that the director, John Landis, was on trial for manslaughter in the deaths on the set of the film Twilight Zone - The Movie (1983).
The saga of "See You Next Wednesday". In the 'Video Pirates' segment, two of the video cassettes in the treasure chest are labeled "See You Next Wednesday". John Landis says he originally had the idea for a movie called "See you next Wednesday" as a 15 year old in 1965. The movie was never made, but he has since revealed that he often references his unmade film in his movies. For example, it was the title on the marquee on the theatre that Michael Jackson and Ola Ray leave at the start of the "Thriller" music video and was the supposed p*rn film playing in the theatre scene in "An American Werewolf in London". It appears as a billboard in the "Blues Brothers". In a twist, it is said, in German, by some soldiers in the Vic Morrow WW 2 scene of "Twilight Zone: The Movie". It often appears as a movie poster in his films, including "Coming To America", and "Trading Places".
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The outdoor rocket ship sequences in the "Amazon Women On the Moon" segment were filmed at Vasquez Rock, an old-time western location, used in countless westerns and TV shows. [Thanks to Jim Mulholland]
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I don't know if there was ever a soundtrack released for this, but the music in this movie includes scoring from "This Island Earth", Huey Lewis and The News' "If This Is It", as well as "Blame It on the Bossa Nova", "Close to You", "Say Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose", "Honey, Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" and "Three Dog Night's Joy to the World" covered by Don "No Soul" Simmons (Grier).
The Huey Lewis and The News music video that Murray is put into is "If This Is It".
One of the titles that Don Simmons purportedly covers on the "Gets Down & Funky" album is that great party hit "The Ballad Of The Green Berets".
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