Its going to do what it wants to and if you get it great, if not too bad. There are fewer still that are more than happy to do what they are going to do and to hell with the audience. There are very few films being made that seem to give a fresh approach to a genre. Sadly this film is out of the current rotation despite its sterling cast and George Lucas parentage. RADIOLAND is one of those neat little gems that just entertain the hell out of you and become a stopping point whenever you run across it on cable. While far from being one of the great films of the 1990’s, it is one of the most unjustly forgotten. Benben is the perfect straightman to have all of the crazies circling around him and as a result the laughs keep coming
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While has done other series since than DREAM ON was the peak of his notoriety which was why he was cast in RADIOLAND. People like Harvey Korman, Christopher Lloyd Jeffrey Tambour, Bobcat Golthait Michael McKean support the grossly under rated Brian Benben.Benben is a solid comic actor best known for the long running HBO series DREAM ON. The reason the film works so well is that director Mel Smith had a stunning cast of pros to work with. Actually if you just want to put your worries aside for a couple of hours this is the film for you because very funny and extremely entertaining. Hell it has Rosemary Clooney and George Burns in performance cameos. If you like the old musical comedies of the 30’s and 40’s like those done by Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope or Jack Benny then you’ll love this. Unfortunately there’s a murder and as a result craziness results as the idea that the show must go on collides with the search for the killer. Everyone is trying to make sure everything goes smoothly in order to impress a new sponsor. The film is a madcap romp mixed about the first night of a new radio station.
Written and produced by George Lucas the film was a loving throwback to the 1930’s and 40’s movies set in and around a radio station, the problem was audiences in 1994 didn’t want to see it either because they were scared away by less than stellar reviews or they had no clue what the film might be. RADIOLAND MURDERS rolled over and died when it was released. The weird thing is that Disney acknowledges the film in it’s on line encyclopedia with a single line saying it was shot at the park without permission. After lots of chatter when it premiered the film kind of has fallen into obscurity because there is nothing to fan the flames after initial explosion. Everyone wanted to see the film which they thought would never get released.Īmazing Disney largely ignored the film figuring that not giving it any publicity would kill it and in a weird way it has. The film premiered at Sundance and there was little word what it was before it played the first time and sold out afterward. As it is incidents happened and somehow the film was finished. The filmmakers wanted to have it down so they looked like tourists and wouldn’t be arrested or thrown out. Shot in guerrilla style using digital cameras and iPhones the film was planned out in great detail before a frame was shot. On its own terms it’s an okay film and kind of stayed with it to the end because I was watching it on Amazon and plunked down a couple of bucks. Had I stumbled upon the film on cable I probably would have been bouncing between channels while watching it. Engaging but never really tense, the film ends up getting a great deal of slack because of how it was filmed rather than for what it is. However as the visit unfolds the father begins to become unhinged and it looks as if he may be part of some grand ominous experiment.Īs a film it’s an okay little thriller. The father’s job disappears but he doesn’t tell his family and they press on. The film concerns a family on vacation at an unspecified theme park. The fact that the film exists and can be seen is surprising considering that the whole thing was shot without permission at Disneyland and Disney World. It’s a film that is more interesting for how it was shot rather than what it is. ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW is an interesting footnote film.
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