Like anyone else who reads Slashdot.org, I've seen the "GNAA" posts on that site promoting this flick about a zillion times over the last two or three years. So, late one bored and sleepless (and sober) Saturday night, I actually fired up my BitTorrent client and downloaded the thing.
It's good for a few chuckles, but not nearly as risqué as I'd been expecting it to be. It's basically a slew of 70s-style clichés (crap special effects, tight white trousers with zippers in the back, big goggly plastic sunnies, snatches of the theme from "Shaft" playing in the background, Ukrainians mining dirt) stacked atop one another. Not sure it qualifies as cult-classic material, but I might actually burn it to a CD and keep it around for a laugh.
I suspect that this film would be considered wildly funny if viewed during the later stages of a drunken party for those of university age, after the lightweights have passed out and been carted home, the neighbours have complained about the music a couple of times, and those looking to hook up have either scored or gone looking elsewhere.
A knowledge of basic spoken German will help, BTW.
I'm pretending that I'm about 21 or 22 years old again, and that I'd had a few when I watched this, and giving it a "7".
It's good for a few chuckles, but not nearly as risqué as I'd been expecting it to be. It's basically a slew of 70s-style clichés (crap special effects, tight white trousers with zippers in the back, big goggly plastic sunnies, snatches of the theme from "Shaft" playing in the background, Ukrainians mining dirt) stacked atop one another. Not sure it qualifies as cult-classic material, but I might actually burn it to a CD and keep it around for a laugh.
I suspect that this film would be considered wildly funny if viewed during the later stages of a drunken party for those of university age, after the lightweights have passed out and been carted home, the neighbours have complained about the music a couple of times, and those looking to hook up have either scored or gone looking elsewhere.
A knowledge of basic spoken German will help, BTW.
I'm pretending that I'm about 21 or 22 years old again, and that I'd had a few when I watched this, and giving it a "7".