Damon Packard, the mad maverick independent cinematic genius who blessed us with the alarmingly odd and original "Reflections of Evil," strikes again with this uproariously irreverent and no-holds-barred brutal parody of the making of the atrocious "Attack of the Clones." This 45 minute comedy short starts on a fiercely funny note with a redubbed Tony Curtis giving us a gut-busting snappy mock bio on Packard. The savage hilarity continues with a simply sidesplitting fake trailer for "Attack of the Clones" which comes complete with foul profane dialogue and choice clips from such superior low-budget sci-fi fare as "Inseminoid" and "Battle Beyond the Stars." Packard stars as a hapless special effects artist who's forced to do CGI digital work for George Lucas on a tight budget and even tighter schedule. Throughout the course of this movie Packard paints a scathing portrait of Lucas as a pompous clueless artist who's lost touch with reality and thus makes only bland, sexless, antiseptic pictures devoid of any real merit or substance. Packard's barbed satiric potshots at the appallingly blatant artificiality of CGI ("CGI rules! Go, digital, go!") are likewise quite vicious and hence totally on the money as well (the special effects guys use footage of homeless psychotic black folks as templates for CGI characters!). The humor is appropriately vicious, biting and politically incorrect, reaching a simply stupendous apex at the incredible conclusion in which a theater full of geeky toy lightsaber-brandishing "Star Wars" fans are made to seem like they are cheering for the infamous nude male wrestling sequence in Ken Russell's "Women in Love"! An absolute take-no-prisoners ferociously amusing hoot.
