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HELL
COMES TO FROGTOWN
(1987)
Starring:
Rowdy Roddy Piper
&
Sandahl Bergman

We've got Rowdy Roddy
Piper fighting frogmen in a futuristic,
post-apocalyptic world
- how could you go wrong? Years off nuclear combat
have destroyed civilization
as we knew it. And it did a number on the
testicles - most men
are sterile. But not our hero. As one nurse puts it,
"This man is carrying
a loaded weapon." Once it's found out that Sam Hell
(Piper) has the power
of procreation, he is released from prison and a
electronic locking device
is slapped on his privates. Those jewels are a
hot commodity - and
now are property of the government. And if he tries to
escape, or goes outside
a certain radius from the nurse Spangle (Bergman),
his boys will go boom!
Now, for some reason,
a couple female soldiers (females pretty much run this
world since the men
lost their potency) take Hell and are on a mission to
Frogtown, out in the
mutant reservation. There, Commander Toady has
kidnapped some fertile
women for his harem, and it's up to our hero to save
and pleasure them.
Can he defeat the evil Toady (and his henchman, Bull)?
Can he save the fertile
women? Can he get the beeping bomb off his crotch?
This movie is pretty
much what I expected - poor quality, cheesy acting,
with some men in frog
suits, Piper hamming it up, and wrestling whenever he
gets a chance.
I just wish the sound and the lighting were better. Many of
the scenes look like
they were filmed by candlelight. You can't tell who's
who, nevermind what
they are doing. The frog effects, while not great, were
passable... (at least
their eyelids opened and closed). Oh, and there's
some bad lines, too...
here's one I'll share:
Spangle: "Don't you take
anything seriously anymore?"
Hell: "I used to take
everything seriously. Then they... blew it up."
I was waiting for a "croak"
pun somewhere in there while Piper's kicking
frog-butt, but I didn't
hear any.
And there are some funny
scenes - like when a chainsaw wielding frog is
coming after Piper's
crotch. Or when Bergman is dancing seductively (you
know, she is trained
in the arts of seduction) for Toady, whose glistening
face moans and groans
as things (yes, plural) are moving in his frog-pants.
So, this is a fun one
to watch with a bunch of people. But be prepared -
it's not a good movie.
Quality: 3.0 Visuals:
3.0 Intensity: 3.0 Laughability: 6.5
OVERALL RATING: 3.9
reviewed
2003
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