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Amazon Women on the Moon

Amazon Women on the Moon

Comedy · Science Fiction · 1987

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.

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Amazon Women on the Moon

“See amazing thrills, spine-tingling chills, and something else that rhymes with "thrills".”

1987 Comedy · Science Fiction 1h 24m

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5.9 / 10

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Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Joe Dante · Carl Gottlieb · Peter Horton

Written by

Michael Barrie · Jim Mulholland

Arsenio Hall

Arsenio Hall

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D

Donald F. Muhich

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Monique Gabrielle

Monique Gabrielle

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Lou Jacobi

Lou Jacobi

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Erica Yohn

Erica Yohn

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Debbi A. Davison

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R

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Court is in session

Put Amazon Women on the Moon on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.