Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!Four Square Productions
1978 - Rated PG - 1 hr 27 min
Director: John De Bello
Starring: Um... nope. No one.
I'm sure this movie was funny at some point to someone. Today, maybe the idea of the spoof is too overdone for us to appreciate the comedy that lies within the original Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! movie. Still, it's widely popular--spawning many sequels, a TV series, and a new remake slated for 2011 release. Oh joy.
I felt the same way about this as I did Airplane! It also uses an extraneous exclamation point at the end of its title, but the similarities don't stop there. These movies are from another generation of comedy, when puns and physical comedy were big sellers. While I admit that I laughed at the Jaws-like scene (the underwater shot of inanimate floating tomatoes was pretty funny), most of the movie just fell flat.
Maybe the 2011 version will be more to my liking. Or maybe I'm just missing the point entirely.
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