This was a cool movie
I remember seeing it on cable about 11 years ago. It was pretty sweet.
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I concur. This film is quite funny and enjoyable all the way through.
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As someone who went to high school and college in the '70s, I think this movie was, like, totally!
Seriously, it was very good at spoofing the whole '70s culture. The only problem with it is that it came out too soon (1990) for people to appreciate the humor. If they had waited another ten years or so I think it would've been much more popular. It takes at least 20-25 years for spoofs and parodies to be really funny, IMHO.
I think if they had waited any longer, the target audience would have been too mature for the insipid script. As it was, the humor didn't quite click even though the nostalgia quotient was dead-on.
I think the funniest part of the movie was the most "mature" part which was the "Be-In" seminar. Most everything else seemed to play too "juvenile" for the target audience.
Of course, 1976 was pretty juvenile in itself, so maybe I'm just being a fuddy-duddy old fart about it.
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It's not meant to be a laff a minute riot, it's got a slight dark edge to it's humor. a bit of social criticism; granted, not as much as, say, IDIOCRACY, but it's there. That, and the intentionally dated style of goofy 70s humor, all add up to something good I think.
So, your last line about the 70s being juvenile nails it!
Yep! I was there.
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