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Also known as Gremloids.

Isn't very clever and certainly not a riot of laughter, but have a funny premise (a Darth Vader-esque looking for the rebel leaders in Shelby, North Carolina) and some moments.

That guy as the protagonist and Paula Poundstone as the mistaken 'princess' are so miscast here.

The best is Chris Elliott taking the preposterous script and getting the best of his scenes as an 'alien expert', all snark in front of the camera.

I knew about this movie because is said it's very similar to the 1989 Weird Al vehicle UHF, and it's true: both are Orion Pictures productions and tell the story about a little tv station near bankruptcy that is saved for a colorful bunch of show starred by a bunch of misfits.

This one stand by its own talking about how the televangelists put the eye in the airwaves to $ell their me$$sage$ and get a lot of untaxed money.

Good laughs about the sudden conversion to 'pious' content of all the programming grid. At that time it was very obvious the deity all that people adore is the almighty $, isn't?

Some scenes may be a little bit questionable by today standards.

Pretty nice music here, with Dr. John and DEVO (as DOVE).

I recommend it.

Everything here is so preposterous to even take it seriously. If you try to make the synopsis, even that sounds like the deranged ramblings of someone very high in powerful 80's colombian produce, if you catch my drift LOL... Maybe that's how this was pitched and greenlit back then, who knows?

Unlike The Forbbiden Dance there are here more production values: a bigger cast, more dancing pros, a not-so-bad OST, but still, let's see what happen here: a guy who is high school teacher by day an THE Lambada-king at night (and happen to be mexican-born too) left his wife and kid in a daily basis, to go and keep his talents working only to be discovered by one of his students (a Melora Hardin that look here very into her 20's) and use that brazilian dance as learning tool for a bunch of East LA kids that want to learn computer programming. HAHAHA! No, REALLY...

Like there was a script ready for a movie about an awesome and cool teacher (like Stand and Deliver or Lean on Me) but when the lambada fad (and the colombian produce) kicked in the suits at charge decided to make a movie about it putting all into the blender.

Melora Hardin is HOT in here, and I suppose the dancing teacher isn't that bad looking either.

This is the kind of flick to watch when there is nothing else, for fun and giggles.

Kinda recommend it.

Yuck!

This unsavory and repelent piece of toxic waste isn't even funny to watch in an joyful, tongue-in-cheek way. The titular characters are so unwatchable given the fact they are truly abominations. No laughs here.

There is something off here. The protagonist is a kid that looks like 12 years old and this seems like a movie for (deranged, maybe a kind of sociopathic, misanthropic) children, but from the first scene his story became intertwined with the tale of a bunch of teenager bullies that look like they are very into their 20's, and if this isn't enough that kid have as romantic interest a girl who despite being fifthteen at the time looks and have a look very mature for the age, and in the screen the interactions among them are cringey at best (and that's a shame because that young actress had some presence after all).

Don't waste your time watching this monstrosity, better go watch Tik Tok videos or indie low-budget flicks but this.

The plot summary of this sounds promising but the actual movie lacks any resemblance of professional quality at all, with all that amateursih voice work and an CGI animation that maybe took a lot of time and work but doesn't looks well at all and the result is like a session playing a glitchy version of The Sims. The sad part is that all that effort and money maybe could be put in use in another kind of effort.

Don't waste your time, that hour will never come back.

Maybe there is a market for this kind of production where parents with a lot of money pay a movie crew to appear in a low budget movie instead of a big party or a trip to a amusement park, and maybe there are companies with some scripts and very skilled pitching abilities to make someone to waste some bucks in things like this.

Poor kids, there is a moment where they look already tired of staying before the cameras, maybe thinking it was better to go a week to Disneyworld or staying at home watching better, entertaining, real movies.

These kinds of products look like the work of production companies who offer to the parents of aspiring starlets the chance to finance their own starring vehicles, with the help of their relatives and friends and hiring some pros past their prime, like a vanity project available to whoever can pay the bills. If that's the case, the absence of casting executives make possible to put on screen people without any kind of experience and/or talent, keeping the pretense that this is more than a glorified dance academy gala.

Now that movie equipment isn't as expensive as two decades ago it's possible to create the resemblance of a profesional work even with low resources, distributing this kind of flicks in second tier streamings maybe to comply with contracts.

The result is an amateurish flick like this one and many others available here and there. Watch it if you don't have nothing else to do some day.

In comparison with many other indie low-budget flicks where anybody involved have a larger-than-life pretentious attitude, like they're doing a favor to the world leaving a trace of their existance in video inversely proportional to the quality and entertaining value of many of those amateurish productions, at least here we can find some agile and effective story telling and a cast that look like is having a nice time filming this.

Nobody here even try to go for the pseudo-artistic bs of some rich movie filmmaking students and in the process they do an efficient work even with the limited resources within their grasp.

Maybe you can give it a try in case of having watched everything else in the known streaming platforms and have 1 hour and a half free.

Oh, yeah, I get it, nobody walks in L. A. just to prevent meeting with these ones and listening even by accident their inane chatting trying to pass as witty snark.

This could work better as an ad to promote tourism in L. A., it could last 15 minutes top without the two characters being kinda rude in what seems like their first time walking around that city and riding in public transport like those activities are some kind of exotic attraction or whatever.

The cinematography is passable but shaky at times.

This is not that good as its high ratings suggest. There are better options everywhere to spend one hour and a half than this tale of not-so-likeable characters very prone to mock everyone but themselves like they're cooler than anyone else.

Things go downhill since the first minute with this one.

Supposedly is the story about the romance between a youngster and a mature woman, right? Well, the troubles start when the guy playing that spoiled and rude american teenager looks like a thirty-something and the same age of the titular "maid", who doesn't even look like a working woman at all but a socialité in her autumn holiday.

Oh, and when this guy is stalking her, taking photos for his self-pleasure and looking not-so-young at all, well, that's so creepy. That woman could hire a good attorney to sue him and his father (who at least isn't taking very seriously this thing and doesn't even try to do an acceptable performance and only recite his lines out of conviction) and won a huge amount of money .

A girl suddenly appears only to flirt with the thirty-something-like who reminds that meme whit that image of Steve Buscemi playing a private detective on 30 Rock disguised as a youngster wearing a backward cap carrying a skateboard. And that girl kinda looks maybe more attractive than the "maid".

And that score, like the rejected music of a dull soap opera.

Is a mistery why there is so many people who gave this more than 2 or 3 stars, this bore-fest isn't even funny to watch. It's like fanfiction penned by a basement-dweller incel.

Horrible, HORRIBLE waste of time.

The only one who seems to have any idea of acting is the protagonist, everybody else seems like they are surprised to be put on front of a camara as a prank in a slumber party.

I liked the night time photography outdoors in the closing scene, whoever did it knows its craftmanship.

Just found this one in Indie Rights Movies and among a lot of low quality flicks that look and feel like low grade movie school projects this one at least tries to be a little better. The acting of the two main actresses is low key but effective, there is a well edited score and whoever direceted this one keep a constant pace and mood all over this.

Looks like the people behind this LGBT movie are at the top of their movie class in comparison with the slackers behind many messed up ones in Indie Rights Movies.

Looks like a movie school project and the most interesting part of this are the landscapes. There is a lack of production values here that could make any adult entertaining crew to blush.

Not a single shade of resemblance of a story here.

The cameraman seems more interested in chase those good looking girls taking shots at their legs and arse at any single chance but there isn't more here to see (like a failed attempt to do an actual piece of adult entertaining).

A lot of padding secuences, this could have been a 20 minutes short easily.

There are some TikTok and Youtube videos better than this that take only some minutes.

So many people gave this vanity project more than 5 of 10 stars, some even dare to say this deserve a ten and I don't know if it's because some kind of trolling, prank, or whoever made it asked his friends and family to do it.

But, hey, these actresses are very good looking.

This movie, if not memorable, offers a bit of entertainment at least.

Two skater kids want to go to a big competition, Mega Dega, but they must evade their strict teenage nanny while his parents are away from home. Hilarity ensues.

The tone of this comedy is very much like a cartoon. I can say it's like a live action version of an episode of a Butch Hartman's show (ala Fairly Oddparents) starred by a pair of brothers reminiscent of the Sprouse twins. Actually there is some scenes animated.

You will find some known faces here, like Ariel Winter or Janet Varney, and even a cameo by the band Metrostation, but Lindsay Shaw (Moze in "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide") get the best part as the neurotic nanny.

Not bad, not great. Nice for a delayed game's afternoon.

I see this movie long, long time ago, in the Channel 2 of Mexico City, and i was 5 years old.

The plot as i can remember goes that way: The story was set in a Circus. Cepillin The Clown was fighting a strange villain, dressed futuristic as in a 50's B-movie film; this guy who was against any kind of fun, and hated at all the sound of children laughing'.

He want to do sometime bad against this clown.

Cepillin, in that time was the #1 figure in children entertainment, in Mexican television. But the movie has a very dark mood, sometimes being sad or even menacing for a kid as i was.

Strangely, for any reason i don't know, this movie has not been broadcast again in Mexico City's TV.

Maybe has a release in VHS or DVD.

The first time i seen this series was c. 1997, in a public Mexican channel (Once TV), and i was amazed for how interesting could be a documentary like this. "Dancing in the street" is very different of any other programs of that kind, many, many times devoted to nostalgic tastes, to make top lists or only to mention the "big names" related to the history of the music, and anything else.

In this case, BBC's crew try to go in deep to tell us about the music development in some directions, what make the rock & roll and the R&B cultures arrive to his contemporary ways.

This is a 10 episodes series, each one about one style or period relevant. This is not the list of names episodes, is just how i remember it (maybe there's any mistake in order):

1. The R&R and the R&B. 2. The early 60's pop. 3. The British invasion, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. 4. The English blues. 5. Motown and soul music. 6. The psychedelic rock. 7. Glam. 8. Punk. 9. Funk and disco. 10. Hip-hop and electronic music.

"Dancing in the street" had omissions and lack of the development of some greatest personalities in the history of contemporary music, but give a great landscape of what's happening in last 40 years in past since his realization.

A must see!

This Spanish animated movie, with all the dialogs in rhymes, shows the misadventures fisherman's town menaced by an Unicorn from under-the-sea and a gang of monsters like a vampire and a mummy (¿¿??). Marina, a little girl, and the kids of that town, try to solve this big trouble.

This animated movie reminds me a very old cartoon movie from Australia named Dot and Keeto (1986), with talking animals interacting with children.

I gave this movie 4 of ten stars only for the catchy songs played during the movie, but it had an early 80's animation style and a very, very weird plot line. Could be a little entertaining, I think.

Just a nice try.