Should you see it? If you're a fan of old television and serials.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The Jet Benny Show (1986)
How bad is it? It's technically very crude.
Should you see it? If you're a fan of old television and serials.
This film screams "student project," but it's pretty good for a student film. It starts with snippets of made-up 1950's television shows, as if someone's changing channels. Then it settles down to a guy doing an excellent (if very affected) Jack Benny impersonation in a Buck Rogers kind of show. The Rochester character is played by a robot that must've cost all of a dollar, voiced by someone off screen. Benny's 1939 Maxwell becomes a space ship here. The plot has Jet Benny rescuing a damsel in distress, though neither really seems to be interested in that rescue. It's impossibly cheap, but also surreally weird. It's hard to imagine who the intended audience for this was, but it has enough going for it to make it worth a rental.
Should you see it? If you're a fan of old television and serials.
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