J-Men Forever (1979)
Fun with dubbing: The Firesign Theater grabbed a bunch of old serials, cut them together, added a new soundtrack and -- voila! -- a comedy cult classic was born. The formula: two parts silly lowbrow humor, two parts cheesy wordplay, two parts drug humor and one part vicious, subversive anti-Establishment satire. The result: Inconsistent but at its best gaspingly funny. It helps that I'm a sucker for cheesy wordplay -- the puns fly like golf balls at Augusta. (Best pun: a Nazi discoteque being called a place "where the music never Gestapos!")
Grade: B
Fun with dubbing: The Firesign Theater grabbed a bunch of old serials, cut them together, added a new soundtrack and -- voila! -- a comedy cult classic was born. The formula: two parts silly lowbrow humor, two parts cheesy wordplay, two parts drug humor and one part vicious, subversive anti-Establishment satire. The result: Inconsistent but at its best gaspingly funny. It helps that I'm a sucker for cheesy wordplay -- the puns fly like golf balls at Augusta. (Best pun: a Nazi discoteque being called a place "where the music never Gestapos!")
Grade: B
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