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This was my first time watching this movie, even though I've known about it most of my life. It looked just too silly to waste an afternoon on before. It just dragged on and on, refusing to make any sense. Soon enough, it stopped being goofy fun at the expense of Sean "I'm too good for James Bond, but I'll do this!" Connery and his action-diaper, and just became a tedious parade of nonsensical exposition that only made things more confusing. I was so angry by the end, all I could think was Connery quit show biz because he deemed the director of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" incompetent (ps, totally on-point with that call), and yet, I could actually TELL you what the plot of that movie is. My only theory is "Zardoz" doesn't take place on Earth, this is actually the planet of hippies from "The Way to Eden" episode of Star Trek. Also, half-young half-old guy looks like Bobby Sherman and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips got in a teleporter accident.

I saw this a couple of years ago at a dive bar in Seattle as part of a long running series of beer and bad movies called Kung Fu Grindhouse. Advertised as "Like the Super Mario Bros. movie, only barfier!", it did not disappoint (but only as far as being something stupider and grosser than Super Mario Bros.) I don't know if its availability is a factor, but c'mon, we all watched "Mr. Nanny" and "Gooby", and those were not too easy to come by. So creepy, so wrong, so upsetting... So do this, already. Also,

I can't remember where I read or heard it, but the ELO songs were all leftovers/demos from their most recent album at that time ("Discovery") apart from the title song. What I believe happened was one of the producers was putting together all the Olivia Newton-John songs, and designing all the musical numbers around that. Then, Joel Silver independently got a hold of Jeff Lynne and asked him to write a theme song, which then turned into as many extra ELO songs as he could get his hands on to pad out the film set to montages. So it's basically the Tubes/big band mash-up from the movie IRL, only super shitty. And I say that as a lifelong fan of Lynne & ELO. Too many cooks! Or, not enough coke?

These ads generate more questions than answers. If a human and a puppet (all right, marionette) mate, will their offspring be half human, half marionette or full-blown puppet? Are comments, not even jokes about wires considered racist by puppets? Do puppets living in a human world have a deeply ingrained persecution complex? Is this actually an ad for the show "Weird Sex"? In the ad where the little puppet kid gets caught in the ceiling fan and goes flying, why would they even have a ceiling fan? Wouldn't that be a hazard to the wife and child in that house? And why, why, WHY doesn't the ticket oak's right eye EVER move? They've had at least a year of different commercials working with this thing, and they haven't fixed the most noticeable problem with the giant 10 foot tree puppet? Did ticket oak used to work at a Rainforest Cafe and had kids climbing over him all day and punching him until finally, the servos that control that right eye went out, and instead of fixing it, they said, "eh, fuck it! Put it on Craigslist." and Stub Hub bought him, but they didn't have any money left in the ad budget to fix his eye either and they certainly weren't going to get him giant sun glasses to cover it up, so they just let it roll, and now I have to stare into the rheumatic abyss of ticket oak's lazy eye every 3rd break on Hulu?

Could not agree more with the other comments about how "Rom-Com-y" a lot of this movie was shot and put together. There's even a "break up" type ballad playing in the scene where Willy and Gooby have a fight and Gooby grabs a hobo bindle and leaves. Then, just a couple of scenes later, it switches gears and becomes a dark, missing person-type movie (like "The Vanishing" or "Prisoners"). One minor thing: in the grocery store, when Gooby is eating all the cereal and just throwing it everywhere like a pig; Willy stops him and says that's not cereal-that's cat food. And Gooby straight up spits cat food in his face and eyes. What store for ANY reason puts the cat food right next to the kids cereal, let alone in the same aisle?

I give you my tribute to my favorite character from Mr. Nanny, Wolfgang the bad Arnold Schwarzenegger wannabee henchman:

I would love to hear a "Halloween III" episode! Even as a kid who was terrified of the slasher horror movies that were a mainstay of 80's cable TV, I was hard pressed to find anything remotely scary about a movie where the villain is an old guy who wants to kill kids with his "special commercial". I haven't seen it in years, but I will never get that annoying jingle from the evil commercial out of my head (it's basically "London Bridge" with different, repetitive words. Go to youtube and look up 'Halloween III Silver Shamrock ad' and see for yourself). I had heard somewhere that the reason there was no Mike Meyers in this movie was that John Carpenter (even though he didn't write or direct it) wanted the series to go in different, anthology of horror-style direction, with a different setup in each movie. They would all take place on Halloween, but not involving the character most closely associated with the series. I'm not sure how much of that is true-but would love to know more about just what did happen to what should have been a straight-forward sequel to a popular horror movie.