Aimed at fans of cutesy dialogue and silly anachronisms, "Spermacus" turns out to be a Scotty Fox send-up of the Kubrick classic, a tall order. The good news is that we'll be saved from SF doing a spoof of Ridley Scott's current "Napoleon", given that his career ended three decades ago.
Surprisingly, this is actually in the vein of "Mad Men" some 14 years ahead of that classic series' AMC debut. Mike Horner plays the sleep-deprived hero, assigned by his mean boss to come up with an ad campaign for Roman Numeral Detergent. His rival at the agency is Brazil Mercedes, who has been stealing his ideas and feeding them to another rival Bob Stone (a totally obscure porn performer). Bright spot is a secretary played by Alex Jordan. Script even throws in a dumb subplot stolen from Billy Wilder's classic "The Apartment", as Horner's buddy T. T. Boy shows up to borrow his apartment for a tryst with Rebecca Wild.
Horner keeps falling asleep and has erotic dreams in which he is Spermacus, a slave to Steve Drake as Roman authority Gluteus Maximus, and takes part in a foursome with Rebecca Wild and another beaty played by Mona Lisa. Alex also appears as a slave here, and in a later dream Spermacus has become a gladiator and a silly reference mocking "The Wizard of Oz" has Alex suggesting they escape their enslavement by clicking their heels and reciting "There's no place like Rome".
This nonsense ends up in office politics and a happy ending, but hardly could be described as hard-hitting satire or even mildly amusing.
Surprisingly, this is actually in the vein of "Mad Men" some 14 years ahead of that classic series' AMC debut. Mike Horner plays the sleep-deprived hero, assigned by his mean boss to come up with an ad campaign for Roman Numeral Detergent. His rival at the agency is Brazil Mercedes, who has been stealing his ideas and feeding them to another rival Bob Stone (a totally obscure porn performer). Bright spot is a secretary played by Alex Jordan. Script even throws in a dumb subplot stolen from Billy Wilder's classic "The Apartment", as Horner's buddy T. T. Boy shows up to borrow his apartment for a tryst with Rebecca Wild.
Horner keeps falling asleep and has erotic dreams in which he is Spermacus, a slave to Steve Drake as Roman authority Gluteus Maximus, and takes part in a foursome with Rebecca Wild and another beaty played by Mona Lisa. Alex also appears as a slave here, and in a later dream Spermacus has become a gladiator and a silly reference mocking "The Wizard of Oz" has Alex suggesting they escape their enslavement by clicking their heels and reciting "There's no place like Rome".
This nonsense ends up in office politics and a happy ending, but hardly could be described as hard-hitting satire or even mildly amusing.