Thursday, September 6, 2018

161: "If You Think It's Poop, Give It A Taste" - The Year Without A Santa Claus (2006)

Our final 5 timers club member John Goodman is our subject this week and did you know that in 2006 he starred as Santa in a live action television adaptation of The Year Without A Santa Claus?  Also featuring SNL alums Michael McKean as Snow Miser and Chris Kattan as Sparky the Elf, this film is cheap, horribly edited, nonsensical at most points but also has a charm all its own.  It's not a good film by any means but it's pleasant.  How does Santa make a profit?  Why is the magical telescope coin operated?  How many mottos can one man have?  Did Chris Kattan have pinkeye?  All these questions and more on this week's Saturday Night Jive.  Enjoy!

Saturday, August 25, 2018

160: "I Shoulda Smoked Weed" - Rude Awakening (1989)


Welcome back to the show, man.  This week we watched a Buck Henry movie from 1989 starring Eric Roberts and Cheech Marin.  Rude Awakening is about two hippies who hide in the jungle for 20 years only to come back and find out that their friends have all sold out.  It starts off really good and then quickly becomes terrible.  Then it has a hilarious ending that made us question what exactly the movie was trying to say.  Are the hippies the good guys or the bad guys  Is Eric Roberts a narc?  Is that the fakest fake beard to exist in a film?  These questions and more on this week's episode of Saturday Night Jive.  Enjoy!
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Thursday, August 2, 2018

159: "Porn And Corn" - Going Ape (1981)/Twins (1988)

We pulled SNL 5-timers club member Danny DeVito out of the hat so we watched Going Ape from 1981 starring Tony Danza and a couple of monkeys.  20 minutes later, the file we were watching stopped working so we did what anybody would do.  We started watching Twins from 1988 starring DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger.  But we didn't want to waste any time so we started it 20 minutes in.  So this is a film where Tony Danza is forced to live with 3 chimpanzees and Danny DeVito.  Just as the mob is starting to get involved the movie jumps ahead 7 years and Danny is a small time hood who finds out he is the genetically inferior twin brother of a muscle bound Austrian.  It's weird.  Join in on the madness and enjoy!

Thursday, July 26, 2018

158: "Miami: The Land Of Cockfights" - Stick (1985)

Burt Reynolds is Ernest "Stick" Stickley in Elmore Leonard's Stick.  Directed by Reynolds, this 80s action movie is pretty decent (and available on YouTube) except for the tacked on love interest, which is the reason we watched the film.  We pulled 5 timers club member Candice Bergen out of the hat and she shows up about 40 minutes in to have sex with Stick and then she promptly exits the movie.  It's not her fault, nobody can resist Stick.  If you don't want to have sex with him you either want to kill him or be his best friend.  I'm a little surprised that the albino assassin didn't try to make out with him.  After a drug deal gone wrong, Stick loses his best friend and plots revenge on those responsible usually resorting to his favorite method, lighting people and things on fire.  Enjoy!

Thursday, July 19, 2018

157: "Poop Juice On The Jambalaya" - Bringing Down The House (2003)

It's Steve Martin week on SNL and we watched Bringing Down The House from 2003 starring Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy and racist old Betty White.  It's truly bizarre how we come across so many racist movies just by picking random actor names out of a hat.  We watched Soul Man, Krippendorf's Tribe, Who's Your Caddy? and Marci X but this week brings us another squeamish gem as Steve Martin gets catfished by a convict and travels down a rabbit hole where everyone hates black people.  That's not too hard in this film as all the black people are just walking and talking racist stereotypes.  Enjoy!

Saturday, July 14, 2018

156: "Chekhov's Humping Elephants" - The Love Guru (2008)

It took 156 episodes but we are just finally getting to The Love Guru.  Why are we talking about this 2008 gem starring Mike Myers as a fame hungry self help charlatan?  Because 5 timers club member Justin Timberlake co-stars as Jacques "Le Coq" Grande a Canadian hockey player with a huge dick.  If you think that joke is funny then you should watch this film because they beat that into the ground along with every other unfunny thing that popped into Mike Myers's head.  Verne Troyer is small, Indian people have funny names, jokes you said on the playground when you were 7 still work when you are an adult and if all else fails how about a kick to the nuts.  It's a sight to behold as it almost seems like they are trying to make the worst movie ever made.  Was this all a "Producers" like scam to abscond with 60 million dollars?  And what's with the incessant mugging to the camera?  All this and more on this week's episode of Saturday Night Jive.  Enjoy!

Saturday, July 7, 2018

155: "Monkeys Are Different Than Dogs" - Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)

We pulled SNL 5 timers club member Drew Barrymore out of the hat so we watched Beverly Hills Chihuahua alone in the dark on a Saturday night.  We make good life decisions.  Chloe is a pampered pooch living the good life when she gets lost in Mexico and forced into the underground world of dog fighting.  While technically this is a movie, it is not a good one.  Enjoy!