Skidoo

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Wayne K @RT88290232 Jun 25 Skidoo is a lightweight and mostly forgotten comedy that supposedly satirises the late 60s counterculture, but just feels like a poor attempt by the establishment to make fun of something they didn’t understand. The hippies in the films are as stereotypical and innocuous as you can get, and I especially love the scene where they’re all stood round in a massive campervan, smoking, singing and doing literally nothing of consequence. The film has a stacked cast, with the likes of Jackie Gleason, Groucho Marx, Mickey Rooney, Slim Pickens and Carol Channing appearing in roles of varying size and importance. Most of the film is pointless fluff, with zany comedy routines and extended pseudo music videos cutting into what’s already a fairly mundane story. Parts of it got a laugh out of me, and Alexandra Hay, an enigmatic figure in the world of cinema, gives a memorable performance, but I just don’t know what it was getting at. As much as I hate to use a comparison like this, it’s like a boomer trying to make a film mocking TikTok celebrities. There might be some interesting and amusing observations, but most of it is clueless and out of touch. The odd funny moment aside, the only thing I’ll really remember this film for is its unrelenting and exhausting ridiculousness. See more Nano N @Nanonevol 02/11/2025 I must be tripping. This is a film of its day and has quite a different effect in 2018. See more Thom N @RT68992806 12/19/2024 If this movie is one of the most famously terrible and hated that was ever made, then why did I smile and laugh the whole time I watched it? A film which outwardly seems to be a comment on the drug and counterculture world by a famously tight suit (Preminger), featuring what feel like thousands of old down-on-their-luck Hollywood stars trying to freak us all out, this is a movie that, much like the psychedelic experience, I can't describe to you; you just have to buy the ticket and take the ride. Until it is destroyed by the capitalists and their running dogs, this film is available on Archive.org for free. See more Frank P @FrankieP543 12/21/2023 This is one of those 'so bad that it's good' movies. This is right up there with Plan 9 From Outer Space. Amazingly awful. See more delysid d @RT67044741 12/17/2021 you know you've seen too many movies if you are watching this one See more dave s @RT68722908 11/13/2021 Skidoo is proof that Otto Preminger and comedy should have never mixed. It is also proof that those who seemingly know nothing about the counter culture of the ‘60s should never have made a movie that focuses on the counter culture of the ‘60s. What else does it prove? Don't ever let anyone talk you into singing the closing credits – very odd. Anything else? Oh, yeah…don't ever include a scene that involves choreographed dancing garbage cans. All of that aside, the cast (Jackie Gleason, Frankie Avalon, Groucho Marx, Carol Channing and many more) is, if nothing else, fascinating. You'd think, considering all of the big names involved, that somewhere along the way somebody would have asked the question "does anybody know what the hell we're doing here?" and then just canned the whole exercise. Sadly, the question was never asked. See more Read all reviews

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