Fresh
Amazon Women on the Moon is irreverent, vulgar and silly and has some hilarious moments and some real groaners too.
Variety Staff, Variety
Amazon Women on the Moon
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1987 · 1h 24m · R
Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Joe Dante
,
Carl Gottlieb
,
Peter Horton
,
John Landis
,
Robert K. Weiss
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Amazon Women on the Moon
Overview
Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
Director and cast
- Joe Dante Director
- Carl Gottlieb Director
- Peter Horton Director
- John Landis Director
- Robert K. Weiss Director
- Arsenio Hall as Apartment Victim
- Monique Gabrielle as Taryn Steele
- Donald F. Muhich as Easterbrook (segment "Pethouse Video")
- Debby Davison as Weatherperson
- Rob Krausz as Floor Manager
- Lou Jacobi as Murray (segment "Murray in Videoland")
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Brenda Landers
- Griffin Dunne as Doctor
- Erica Yohn Cast
- Peter Horton Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Slim pickings.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
Satirists are in trouble when their subjects are funnier than they are.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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