Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Directed by

Carl Gottlieb, Joe Dante, Robert K. Weiss, Peter Horton

Genre

science fiction film, parody film, science fiction comedy, retrofuturism

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 186 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a movie in the form of a late night TV broadcast. It is a series of comedy sketches that make fun of old sci-fi movies and other pop culture.

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What happens

Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 American satirical science-fiction sketch comedy film that parodies the experience of watching low-budget films on late-night television. The film, featuring a large ensemble cast with cameo appearances by film and television stars, as well as some nonactors, was written by Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland; it takes the form of a compilation of 21 comedy sketches directed by five different directors: Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis and Robert K. Weiss. The title Amazon Women on the Moon refers to the central film-within-a-film, a spoof of science-fiction films from the 1950s that borrows heavily from Queen of Outer Space (1958) starring Zsa Zsa Gabor, itself a film that recycles elements of earlier science-fiction works such as Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1955) and Forbidden Planet (1956). Landis had previously directed The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), which employed a similar sketch anthology format. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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