My review was written in November 1989 after watching the movie on TWE video cassette.
"Mutants in Paradise" is a cute sci-fi spoof, made on a student film level (at University of Virginia), but with enough gags to keep home video fans amused. Plans for midnight movie bookings for the pic (shot about five years ago) fell through.
Brad Greenquist, who later did a good job in "The Bedroom Window" toplines as a nerd who plays guinea pig in venal scientist Robert Ingham's genetic experiments, trying to come up with a nuclear-proof man to survive impending war. It all turns out to be a ruse to get grant money, but along the way Greenquist has funny misadventures caused by several bumbling Soviet spies and attempted romances with lovely Anna Nicholas.
The late Edith Massey (a regular in John Waters' films), plays the heroine's mom, supposedly a genetic scientist. Boxing champ Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini makes what would have been his screen debut (if film had been released in a timely way) as the hero's trainer.
Writer-director Scott Apostolou shows some promise as a satirist, though too many sketches are thrown in that don't belong.
Cast performs well in this 16mm effort shot in Charlottesville.