Amazon Women on the Moon

Name: Amazon Women on the Moon
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Released: September 18, 1987
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Arsenio Hall, Debby Davison, Donald F. Muhich, Erica Yohn, Lou Jacobi

1987

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Barcino Films | Release Date: September 18, 1987 | R

Starring: Arsenio Hall, Debby Davison, Donald F. Muhich, Erica Yohn, Lou Jacobi, Michelle Pfeiffer, Monique Gabrielle, Phil Hartman, Rob Krausz

Summary: A spoof 1950s science fiction movie, interspersed with various comedy sketches concerning late night television.

Director: Carl Gottlieb and Joe Dante and John Landis and Peter Horton and Robert K. Weiss

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 85 min

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Janet Maslin

An anarchic, often hilarious adventure in dial-spinning, a collection of brief skits and wacko parodies that are sometimes quite clever, though they're just as often happily sophomoric, too. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

When it's funny it's often hilarious and low-down, but when it isn't, it's embarrassingly grim. On the whole, however, it balances out as an amiable diversion -- provided you're in a suitably relaxed and undemanding mood. [18 Sept 1987, p.14]

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Amazon Women on the Moon is irreverent, vulgar and silly and has some hilarious moments and some real groaners too. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The large number of video jokes in Amazon Women suggests a product principally designed with the home screen in mind, and perhaps it will look sharper there. [18 Sept 1987, p.E]

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

David Sterritt

Lots of filmmakers, lots of opportunities, lots of bad taste, very few laughs. [25 Sept 1987, p.23]

Roger Ebert

There was perhaps a time, 20 years ago, when the sophomorism of Amazon Women on the Moon might have seemed faintly daring. But even Mad magazine has moved on from simple satire to a more off-center view of its subjects. Read full review

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Jan 14, 2020

Amazon Women on the Moon fails to be as funny or as clever as it could be. The first person framework is a terrific idea but it doesn’t deliver the same successful comedy that Kentucky Fried Movie did. Blame can be put on either the lack of ZAZ or the fact most of jokes don’t work as well asAmazon Women on the Moon fails to be as funny or as clever as it could be. The first person framework is a terrific idea but it doesn’t deliver the same successful comedy that Kentucky Fried Movie did. Blame can be put on either the lack of ZAZ or the fact most of jokes don’t work as well as they could. Some jokes aren’t funny; some jokes are clever but lack substance beyond their initial concept however some sketches are well written and directed. The all-star cast is fun to watch and the directors do the best job they can with the material but it all hinges on the jokes, few which are very well done. It’s about finding a diamond in the rough...or some diamonds. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don’t. In a way finding a good sketch is no different to flicking through TV channels every day.… Expand

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