This film should join Plan 9 from Outer Space and Troll 2 on the Top Ten list of worst-and-therefore-funniest films of all time. While the first two films were products of sincere incompetence, this picture is much more calculated. It knows exactly how awful it is. That makes it somewhat less entertaining than Plan 9 or Troll 2, because deliberate camp is never as good as the unconscious kind.
Still, the cast and crew were clearly in on the joke, and at the wrap party they probably got as drunk as possible because (1.) they knew they were making a crap masterpiece that might eventually become a midnight-movie cult fave or (2.) they wanted to forget the whole experience as fast as possible. Maybe both. Not that you can blame them.
Anyway, there are so many scenes here that are fall-out-of-your-chair ludicrous that you'd need a heart of stone to not respond to the world- class wackness.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Dr. Mengele, the Nazi surgeon who conducted horrible experiments in WWII concentration camps, is apparently alive if not so well and living/experimenting in an underground lab deep under Antarctica(!), where he and his zombie Nazi cohorts are preparing to usher in the Fourth Reich. Yup, all the ingredients for comedy are here! And sure enough, an unsuspecting team of South Pole researchers stumbles onto this secret and mayhem (plus many laughs) ensues.
Faces ripped off. Cute girls manhandled by living-dead Wehrmacht types. Some stuff about a flesh-eating virus as a tool of world conquest. Does it matter? You can tune in and out of the dialog (or whole scenes) and not miss anything that matters. It doesn't get any better (i.e., worse) than this.
Apart from the fire-sale CGI and overmugging that passes for acting, the high point of the flick is surely the scenes involving a reanimated Hitler encased in what looks like a junkyard reboot of the psychopathic cyborg Cain in Robocop 2. Today Antarctica, Tomorrow the World. Ja wohl, Mein Fuhrer! For sheer looniness (and technical ineptitude), the shots of him tramping over the ice in pursuit of the heroine/hero at film's end will have your eyes doing slot-machine rolls.
A good bad move like this isn't for lovers of cinematic art, or even well-engineered trash like Transformers 2, but it's fine for a slow night when there's not much else on the tube and you need a few cheap giggles.
I have a high tolerance for over-the-top garbage that doesn't take itself too seriously, so this gets 5 stars from me. But of course I get why people who may not share my tolerance would be baffled by that relatively high rating.
Still, the cast and crew were clearly in on the joke, and at the wrap party they probably got as drunk as possible because (1.) they knew they were making a crap masterpiece that might eventually become a midnight-movie cult fave or (2.) they wanted to forget the whole experience as fast as possible. Maybe both. Not that you can blame them.
Anyway, there are so many scenes here that are fall-out-of-your-chair ludicrous that you'd need a heart of stone to not respond to the world- class wackness.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Dr. Mengele, the Nazi surgeon who conducted horrible experiments in WWII concentration camps, is apparently alive if not so well and living/experimenting in an underground lab deep under Antarctica(!), where he and his zombie Nazi cohorts are preparing to usher in the Fourth Reich. Yup, all the ingredients for comedy are here! And sure enough, an unsuspecting team of South Pole researchers stumbles onto this secret and mayhem (plus many laughs) ensues.
Faces ripped off. Cute girls manhandled by living-dead Wehrmacht types. Some stuff about a flesh-eating virus as a tool of world conquest. Does it matter? You can tune in and out of the dialog (or whole scenes) and not miss anything that matters. It doesn't get any better (i.e., worse) than this.
Apart from the fire-sale CGI and overmugging that passes for acting, the high point of the flick is surely the scenes involving a reanimated Hitler encased in what looks like a junkyard reboot of the psychopathic cyborg Cain in Robocop 2. Today Antarctica, Tomorrow the World. Ja wohl, Mein Fuhrer! For sheer looniness (and technical ineptitude), the shots of him tramping over the ice in pursuit of the heroine/hero at film's end will have your eyes doing slot-machine rolls.
A good bad move like this isn't for lovers of cinematic art, or even well-engineered trash like Transformers 2, but it's fine for a slow night when there's not much else on the tube and you need a few cheap giggles.
I have a high tolerance for over-the-top garbage that doesn't take itself too seriously, so this gets 5 stars from me. But of course I get why people who may not share my tolerance would be baffled by that relatively high rating.