shawnaharp

Saw "Captain Invincible" last week at a Bad Movie Night event and it was the worst -- and funniest -- musical I have ever seen. This movie makes "Plan 9 from Outer Space" look like "Citizen Kane"! It's meant to be a spoof and is purposefully bad, but I don't think the makers of this film intended it to be quite as awful as it really is. The musical numbers are completely lame, plenty of gratuitous nudity a la Benny Hill, there are evil punk rockers with half-mohawks, bondage clad new wave hooker chicks, attack vacuum cleaners, crazed Nazis with Yoda-like sidekicks in bad prosthetic makeup. What more could you want? Oh, yeah, a discernible plot might be nice and actors who could sing and dance would be a real bonus.

If you want to throw a boffo Bad Movie Night, I highly recommend "Captain Invincible" -- it will have your guests in stitches and explains why we're glad the 80s are long past.

Perhaps I shouldn't have watched this on television (the Sci-Fi Channel) as it might have had better continuity on video, but the ending was so truncated that it totally undermined the suspense built through the first 3/4s of the film. The film wrapped up so quickly with really poor edits that I spent the last 5 minutes thinking "what just happened here?" Plus there was some very cheesy special effects and music which spoiled the tension, making this film fairly laughable at the moments that were probably supposed to be the most dramatic. The whole production had a "made for TV" feel about, taking reputable actors and source material and turning it into a total washout.