Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. Centered around 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. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.
Satirists are in trouble when their subjects are funnier than they are.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
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,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Slim pickings.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Amazon Women on the Moon is irreverent, vulgar and silly and has some hilarious moments and some real groaners too.