Coming Attractions

1978

Comedy

7
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 713 713

Director

Ira Miller Photo
Ira Miller

Top cast

Bill Zuckert Photo
Bill Zuckert as Hotel Detective
Lewis Arquette Photo
Lewis Arquette as Warden
Garry Goodrow Photo
Garry Goodrow as Narrator
Beans Morocco Photo
Beans Morocco as Shaggy Dog
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674.74 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 13 min
Seeds 3
1.22 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 13 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbborroughs 3 / 10

Wildly uneven but mostly not very good

This is a sketch comedy movie done in the style of movie trailers. It's another in the long line of films that filled theaters in the mid to late 1970's like Kentucky Fried Movie, Groove Tube, American Raspberry, Tunnelvision promising to do what Saturday Night Live was doing but with dirty words and naked women. This is probably the weakest of the bunch.Spoofing everything from musicals (Darktown after Dark) to prison films (3 Chairs for Lefty) to public service announcements (Buddy Hackett on bed wetting) to biker films (Skateboarders from Hell) to Charlie Chaplin films (The Kid and the Yid) and a few things in between this is a very hit or miss film. Most of the gags had been done before and better in other films and on TV by the time this was made so it was like watching reruns of reruns.3 Chairs for Lefty, which stars Bill Murray is rife with the sort of prison jokes that have been around since the 1930's,including giving Lefty a roast to cook when he finally goes to the chair. The real problem is that almost all of the sketches go on way past the point of being funny. There seems to be some need to spoof a complete film, so in Skateboarders from hell we get a climatic funeral scene that isn't very funny and destroys the laughs that the film had generated with the "biker" fight. There is no reason that this film needed to be almost two hours long since tighter cutting could have made this a classic.Worth seeing if you run across it on cable and you're in the mood for a very uneven comedy.It would be also okay to get in the bargain bin at the 99 cent store (which is how I got my copy) since its not worth more than a dollar.
Reviewed by galenhoward82 5 / 10

Dated Sketch Compilation With One Standout Segment

Reviewed by DearJohnny 4 / 10

Hasn't Aged Well

An occasionally amusing, often confusing, gleefully profane 70's movie that hasn't really aged well. A precursor to Saturday NIGHT LIVE, it's a hodgepodge of spoofs and takeoffs of popular movies of the time. Some of the material is quite good ('The Shaggy Studio Executive,' where Walt Disney comes back as a guy in a dog suit), some of it's dated badly (A 'Snacktime' concession stand advert featuring a stoned guy with the munchies), a lot of it you have to think for a minute or two to figure out what's supposed to be funny (Who knew the eulogist at the biker funeral was supposed to be a takeoff of Georgie Jessel?). Best if you remember the time.
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