Wacko 1981
director: Greydon Clark
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Joe Don Baker Stella Stevens George Kennedy Julia Duffy Scott McGinnis Elizabeth Daily Andrew Clay Michele Tobin Anthony James David Drucker Sonny Davis Charles Napier Jeff Altman Michael Lee Gogin Claudia Lonow Tamar Howard Victor Brandt Wil Albert Darby Hinton Jacqulin Cole Ben Hartigan John Avery Toni Sawyer Lou Felder Albert Nalbandian Laura Dashosh Helen Martin Fred D. Scott Karole Selman Pete Robinson Michael R. Starita Robert Magnus Steve Wagner Mickey Epps David Greenwalt M. James Kouf Jr. Joseph Jay Kamen John Bristol Alex Preisman Paula Jacquard Shelley Doig Christina Cummings Larry Wills Michael T. Starita Dan Frischman Andrew Lederer Ronald Kenney Joshua Daniel Janice Davies Katina Gardner Erin Halligan Suzie Harper William Driver Stephen A. Maginn Edythe Magnus Laurie B. McCormick John Roedell Mary Ann Roedell Barbara Starita Donna Gaff James Gaff Chris Cot Rick Neigher Simon Teolis Scott Norman Mike Mirage
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[i]Wacko[/i]? More like wanko, in all honesty. Even though the video's packaging draws a comparison to the surprise absurdist comedy hit [i]Airplane![/i] (and even suggests that it's the superior offering), the only similarities between the two films are their eclectic casts - as well as stalwart character actors Joe Don Baker, Charles Napier and George Kennedy, we get early appearances from Andrew Dice Clay and voice actor / occasional pop singer EG Daily - and a scattershot, gag-heavy approach which is decidedly hit and miss, although in the case of [i]Wacko[/i], if one in every fifty jokes actually lands on its intended target, that's about as good as it gets. The technical credits hover around average, and the majority of the film is so poorly lit one can only wonder what's actually supposed to be happening - as a result, a smattering of genuinely clever and subversive touches (such as the caption that advises us to go off and get some refreshments during a pointless dream sequence) tend to get lost in the quagmire. One of only a couple of dozen releases from CBS/Fox's insalubrious Avatar imprint (which also gave us Juan Piquer Simon's deliriously silly and relentlessly grisly [i]Pieces[/i]), Wacko promptly vanished off the face of the earth, before turning up again, slightly ashamed of itself, for a single late-night broadcast on Anglia television in about 1990 - and promptly vanished again.