Several minutes are dedicated to a girl who is obsessed with brushing her teeth, the joke being that she has tooth shaped teddies, uses too much toothpaste and brushes her teeth twice. This occurs about 5 minutes after the initial set-up, long after we have seen the joke coming.
Nothing.Ī ludicrous amount of effort is put into the first major joke in which 5 cheerleaders are standing in a row, while holding giant fake vegetables, at which point the killer skewers them with a javelin, thus prompting the headline ‘Cheerleaders are Shisk-ka-bobbed!’. To make this point as irrefutably clear as possible: There is One Joke, and One Joke Only in this entire film. This sort of problem is irrelevant in spoof films provided the film itself is actually funny. If he wasn’t technically a love interest, and happened to have a horse with which to ride off into the sunset, he would have no function in the film whatsoever. We cut to his ‘antics’ at several points of the narrative in the vain hopes to make him interesting/relevant, but to no avail. The mountie, as mentioned, is irrelevant to the plot, even in a plot as flippant as this. It constantly derails itself, losing its narrative focus completely and working within the moment in the hopes of producing an immediate laugh. Pandemonium, on the other hand, just can’t decide on any sort of narrative arc. This is a ludicrous scene, but it only appears as such when placed in contrast to the Western setting which, in turn, makes it hilarious. Take the musical number sequence from Blazing Saddles for example.
Spoof has a tendency to do this, but in small, concentrated doses. It doesn’t flow with any sort of narrative sense. To say this film has a ‘main’ problem feels naïve. There’s also a Canadian Mountie present for arbitrary reasons and, well, there’s isn’t much more to say because the events of the film are just a mass of incoherent contradictions that defy any sort of synopsis. Taking the generic slasher as its premise (with a dash of Carrie for good measure), we focus on a cheerleading camp that sees its six cheerleaders being killed, one by one, by an unseen maniac. However, it is important to remember that, while Mel Brooks’ reign of hilarity was a golden age for spoof, there were still quite a few duds speckled among the gems.Īn hour and seventeen minutes has never felt so long. When Mel Brooks left the director’s chair, there was definitely something lacking from there on.
#PANDEMONIUM MOVIE. MOVIE#
With the Scary Movie franchise outright refusing to die, it’s pretty easy to make the assumption that spoof hit its lowest point at the turn of the millennium.
Starring: Candice Azzara, Carol Kane and Judge Reinhold
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