Alright my fellow lovers of obscure movies, get your head round this: The world is DOOMED. DOOMED I tells yer. But fortunately a group of young under-20's have invented a time machine which allows them to go forward into the future to the aftermath of the apocalypse to repopulate the species. Why they don't just go back to try and prevent the crisis is beyond me, but anyway.. the rules are quite simple. All you have to remove your shoes, socks and trousers, and sit on an exercise machine while convulsing. No, really. Apart from getting a few nice pantie shots, it's hard to imagine why the makers would come up with such a bizarre method of transportation. Wait, I think I've just figured it out.
So yeah.. the head honcho of this project is none other than B-movie legend Keith Carradine, and the director is a chap you might have heard of with a rather famous family, called Peter Fonda. Alas, the presence of these big guns fails to show much evidence of quality on screen, with a minuscule budget being apparent from the start resulting in some truly laughable not-so-special effects. Carradine's role is nothing more than an extended bit cameo anyway, with most of the focus on his blonde daughter played by the pretty but utterly vapid Kelly Bohanan. Her travels round the desolate future world with her equally tedious entourage of young men and women are noteworthy only for the production designer's lack of imagination. We get a few burnt out cars, a snake and some rocks. Lots and lots of rocks.
Fonda likes his long shots, as he trains the camera in scene after scene as far away as possible as if to show us the hopelessness of this barren wilderness. This sounds great on paper, but in the actual movie the trick is repeated too often and takes us right out of the film. Not that you'll be missing much.. the dialogue consists mainly of boring conversations between boring people who, 40 years from now, could make a fantastic living in the House Of Lords with all their pathetic navel gazing Finally, I defy anyone to make any sense of the labyrinthine plot, which takes place in real time and flashbacks with so much flipping between the two you'll end up nauseous. Either that, or they bring at least one main character back from the dead without any explanation. Don't even think about it. You could develop a brain hemorrhage.
Incidentally, my copy cut off 3/4 of the way through. Not the fault of my VHS and the tape inside wasn't chewed up, so it must the cassette itself. This leads me to believe it was probably part of a faulty batch here in the UK. Is anyone else man enough to confess to owning this piece of pish that has the same problem? Do get in touch.. perhaps we can harass Jane Fonda into giving us a refund. She must have made a fortune from all of those Keep Fit videos. Or something.
Lastly, I'll close with a quote from what is always a good source of comedy: The back of the video box. "This movie directed by Peter Fonda is probably his best." Excuse me but.. HAHAHAHAHAHA. HAHA. HAHA. HA. HA. Phew.. *wipes tears from eyes*. Deranged? Don't get me started.. 1/10
So yeah.. the head honcho of this project is none other than B-movie legend Keith Carradine, and the director is a chap you might have heard of with a rather famous family, called Peter Fonda. Alas, the presence of these big guns fails to show much evidence of quality on screen, with a minuscule budget being apparent from the start resulting in some truly laughable not-so-special effects. Carradine's role is nothing more than an extended bit cameo anyway, with most of the focus on his blonde daughter played by the pretty but utterly vapid Kelly Bohanan. Her travels round the desolate future world with her equally tedious entourage of young men and women are noteworthy only for the production designer's lack of imagination. We get a few burnt out cars, a snake and some rocks. Lots and lots of rocks.
Fonda likes his long shots, as he trains the camera in scene after scene as far away as possible as if to show us the hopelessness of this barren wilderness. This sounds great on paper, but in the actual movie the trick is repeated too often and takes us right out of the film. Not that you'll be missing much.. the dialogue consists mainly of boring conversations between boring people who, 40 years from now, could make a fantastic living in the House Of Lords with all their pathetic navel gazing Finally, I defy anyone to make any sense of the labyrinthine plot, which takes place in real time and flashbacks with so much flipping between the two you'll end up nauseous. Either that, or they bring at least one main character back from the dead without any explanation. Don't even think about it. You could develop a brain hemorrhage.
Incidentally, my copy cut off 3/4 of the way through. Not the fault of my VHS and the tape inside wasn't chewed up, so it must the cassette itself. This leads me to believe it was probably part of a faulty batch here in the UK. Is anyone else man enough to confess to owning this piece of pish that has the same problem? Do get in touch.. perhaps we can harass Jane Fonda into giving us a refund. She must have made a fortune from all of those Keep Fit videos. Or something.
Lastly, I'll close with a quote from what is always a good source of comedy: The back of the video box. "This movie directed by Peter Fonda is probably his best." Excuse me but.. HAHAHAHAHAHA. HAHA. HAHA. HA. HA. Phew.. *wipes tears from eyes*. Deranged? Don't get me started.. 1/10