Good movie for people who hate hippies AND Reagan
Although this was a dim-bulb movie, I kind of liked it since it makes merciless fun of both drugged-out neo-hippies AND Ronald Reagan. I once was on a bus ride from Boulder to Denver, which took almost two hours because of a snowstorm, and the bus jam-packed with Phish-heads on their way to a Phish concert. Maybe it was the close quarters, the sub-moronic conversations, or the stench of patchouli oil, but if I had had a big axe and a Ronald Reagan mask things might have turned out a lot like the end of this movie.
On the other hand, it's also nice to see someone portray Reagan as the homicidal maniac he really was. Here's a guy who's considered a great president simply because he happening to be serving at a time when the Soviet Union finally collapsed under its own weight and when the US economy finally recovered on its own from a long period of malaise. And this pure accident of history has left us with a legacy of idiotic policies that have run this country straight into the ground the last eight years. But yet, mark my words, we're about to sign up to four to eight more of them simply because they're being sold by an affable Reaganesque old man and a female version of Dan Quayle. Yep, we got Reagan to thank for all this. To hell with all the airports and highways--this movie is the kind of memorium he really deserves.