A parody of Saturday afternoon matinees, including coming attractions and a cartoon.A parody of Saturday afternoon matinees, including coming attractions and a cartoon.A parody of Saturday afternoon matinees, including coming attractions and a cartoon.
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David Alastair Lewis
- Tech #2 (segment 'New Adventures of the Great Galaxy')
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- Peter Winograd
- Kirk Henderson("Cat and Mouse" animation sequence)
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- TriviaFilmed in 1981 but never released theatrically.
- ConnectionsFeatures 'Cat and Mouse' at the Home (1983)
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Unfunny movie spoof
My review was written in May 1987 after watching the movie on Media Home Entertainment video cassette.
A lot of effort from divers hands went into "Flicks", a/k/a "Loose Joints" and "Hollyweird", a homage to various film genres which fails the crucial test: is it funny? Contributors include the late Joan Hackett and production consultant Clark Paylow plus numerous folks who have gone on to bigger things: mask makers Stephen and Charles Chiodo, currently making their own pic "Killer Klowns"; a set dresser Bill Paxton who has since got meaty acting roles in "Aliens" and other fils. Picture was shot in 1981, but never released theatrically, surfacing finally in video stores.
Director Peter Winograd's format tries to recreate the old-fashioned cinema program: coming attractions, a cartoon, a serial and main feature. If the writing and execution had been amusing the pic might have attracted an audience; instead, it is merely pastiche, emulating in very ordinary fashion the film prototypes.
Animation director Kirk Hendersn captures the style of a "Tom & Jerry" cartoon in various "Cat and Mouse" segments, but the material is boring, concerning the twosome at a cartoon characters' retirement home alternately brawling and reminiscing about the good old days of non-limited animation.
Coming attractions satires are puerile: "Now Way Jose", an all-star film that is too expensive to be made, and "Whodunit", a flat, boring mystery pic. "News R Us" uses old newsreel footage to spoof the "March of Time' format for the nth time. The main feature (a padded half-hour segment) stars Martin Mull and Berry Kennedy in "House of the Living Corpse", playing like a cliched horror film rather than commenting on same.
Two segments starring Joan Hackett from an Outer Space serial feature cute special effects, mocking "2001", the original "Flash Gordon" serials and other space epics.
Ironically, if "Flicks" had been released, it might have changed film history a bit, in that its second feature segment "Philip Alien Space Detective" commits in bold relief exactly the same errors which sanek "Howard the Duck" years later. As voiced by Harry Shearer and Sandra Kearns, humanoid moths (guys wearing elaborate masks) come to Earth on a tough-guy detective case, with Philip Alien styled as a Bogie-type moth gumshoe. The seduction scene with human Pamela Sue Martin plays just like Lea Thompson's similar assignment in "Howard the Duck", and the belaboring of the premise (of treating an invader in a weird mask as normal) is identical.
A lot of effort from divers hands went into "Flicks", a/k/a "Loose Joints" and "Hollyweird", a homage to various film genres which fails the crucial test: is it funny? Contributors include the late Joan Hackett and production consultant Clark Paylow plus numerous folks who have gone on to bigger things: mask makers Stephen and Charles Chiodo, currently making their own pic "Killer Klowns"; a set dresser Bill Paxton who has since got meaty acting roles in "Aliens" and other fils. Picture was shot in 1981, but never released theatrically, surfacing finally in video stores.
Director Peter Winograd's format tries to recreate the old-fashioned cinema program: coming attractions, a cartoon, a serial and main feature. If the writing and execution had been amusing the pic might have attracted an audience; instead, it is merely pastiche, emulating in very ordinary fashion the film prototypes.
Animation director Kirk Hendersn captures the style of a "Tom & Jerry" cartoon in various "Cat and Mouse" segments, but the material is boring, concerning the twosome at a cartoon characters' retirement home alternately brawling and reminiscing about the good old days of non-limited animation.
Coming attractions satires are puerile: "Now Way Jose", an all-star film that is too expensive to be made, and "Whodunit", a flat, boring mystery pic. "News R Us" uses old newsreel footage to spoof the "March of Time' format for the nth time. The main feature (a padded half-hour segment) stars Martin Mull and Berry Kennedy in "House of the Living Corpse", playing like a cliched horror film rather than commenting on same.
Two segments starring Joan Hackett from an Outer Space serial feature cute special effects, mocking "2001", the original "Flash Gordon" serials and other space epics.
Ironically, if "Flicks" had been released, it might have changed film history a bit, in that its second feature segment "Philip Alien Space Detective" commits in bold relief exactly the same errors which sanek "Howard the Duck" years later. As voiced by Harry Shearer and Sandra Kearns, humanoid moths (guys wearing elaborate masks) come to Earth on a tough-guy detective case, with Philip Alien styled as a Bogie-type moth gumshoe. The seduction scene with human Pamela Sue Martin plays just like Lea Thompson's similar assignment in "Howard the Duck", and the belaboring of the premise (of treating an invader in a weird mask as normal) is identical.
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