My review was written in December 1990 after watching the program on AIP video cassette.
This compilation of short subjects for the video market offers some yocks but there's no award-winning material here.
Punning title is derived from the leadoff entry "Road Lawyers", a 1987 spoof of the Mad Max films that is presented here with a 1990-made prolog set in a boardroom. Made by Robert Rhine, who also stars, it's a labored, overlong riff on the pun, with legalese and the more venal characteristic of the legal profession grafted onto the George Miller opus.
Shot mainly with pixillation techniques to have Mild Milt (Rhine) scooting along the landscape in his easy chair, film never achieves the intended "SCTV" level of satire (especially disappointing because of Rhine;s physical similarity to "SCTV" maven Eugene Levy).
"Escape from Heaven" is a more imaginative spoof of religion that also gets bogged down. This 1989 University of Southern California student short is styled like a women's prison film with the Catholic religion mildly lampooned, as in a wisecrack: "What we have here is a failure to excommunicate".
"Radar Men from the Moon" is an extended excerpt from that 1952 Republic serial (introducing jet-packed Commander Cody) with a quartet of comics writing and voicing over silly dialog. Firesign Theater did a better job in this mode over a decade ago with "J-Men Forever".
Finale is another one-note pic made in 1982, "Hairline", about the nightmares of a guy obsessed with his thinning hair. Punchline is an anticlimax.
This compilation of short subjects for the video market offers some yocks but there's no award-winning material here.
Punning title is derived from the leadoff entry "Road Lawyers", a 1987 spoof of the Mad Max films that is presented here with a 1990-made prolog set in a boardroom. Made by Robert Rhine, who also stars, it's a labored, overlong riff on the pun, with legalese and the more venal characteristic of the legal profession grafted onto the George Miller opus.
Shot mainly with pixillation techniques to have Mild Milt (Rhine) scooting along the landscape in his easy chair, film never achieves the intended "SCTV" level of satire (especially disappointing because of Rhine;s physical similarity to "SCTV" maven Eugene Levy).
"Escape from Heaven" is a more imaginative spoof of religion that also gets bogged down. This 1989 University of Southern California student short is styled like a women's prison film with the Catholic religion mildly lampooned, as in a wisecrack: "What we have here is a failure to excommunicate".
"Radar Men from the Moon" is an extended excerpt from that 1952 Republic serial (introducing jet-packed Commander Cody) with a quartet of comics writing and voicing over silly dialog. Firesign Theater did a better job in this mode over a decade ago with "J-Men Forever".
Finale is another one-note pic made in 1982, "Hairline", about the nightmares of a guy obsessed with his thinning hair. Punchline is an anticlimax.