Watching an interview on TV, it seems that it was all done on a budget of $50,000. Yeah, it wasn't the best, and for a first effort action movie a little light on the action.
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This is a fun movie, with absolutely everything: ghosts, the spooky castle, repeated visions of past events, sex and violence ( though both have been toned down in the version most Americans have seen over the years.) The alluring, captivating Barbara Steele is the main reason to see it.
It won the Emmys for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) (also nominated 4 times) and twice for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, and it was nominated for Outstanding Music and Lyrics.
When it first came out in '88, I read in the newspaper that it was not well received.
Years later I watched it again and I now thing it's one of the best comedies out.
Randy Quaid and Richard Prior made pure humour.
It would have been great to see them both in something much more intense.
Each great in their own way, as a team they would be double the trouble and 5 times the fun.
Far better than any Adam Sandler or Seth Rogan movie made and better than the Sandler/Rogan actors themselves.
Nothing enormously award winning, but a pleasurable waste of time..
In any event, the professor is obsessed with creating a rejuvenating serum that can make people younger, while his sarcastic butler, Jessup, expresses the viewer's skepticism with rolled eyes and the occasional dry quip.
Walking into the nearest bar to wait for the tow truck, Larry happens upon barman Mike, who unbeknown to Larry is about to change his life for ever.......
The alternate life premise in cinema is hardly a new thing, stretching back to the likes of It's A Wonderful Life and showing no signs of abating with the quite recent Sandler vehicle that was Click.
He has a gentlemanly charm that we won't ever see again in the world, even in Merry Old England, and that is so unfortunate.
