Watched this particular film on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Another in a long line of films featuring grown ups pretending to be younger than they really are and crooning in the local bar. Most of this films usually are kind of all over the place, but this one really takes the cake. From not really establishing a relationship between two characters on screen, to one minute the film being about singing and getting a girl to running drugs, this film just does it all and does it all pretty badly. Still, the film while bad, still had enough going for it that I did not want the two lead characters dead and battered at the bottom of a ravine and torn apart by animals. So it had that going for it.
The story has a part time truck driver who occasionally sings and also was apparently racing having a bit of a time with a blond who likes running guys off the road and later offering them a bite of apple. Well this guy's best friend in the whole world dies in a tragic car accident and the driver suspects foul play. Though, to be honest, their super great friendship is almost implied as there really are no scenes depicting them as super best buds. The truck driver ends up onto something big and soon gets hired on to sing at a club while he is on probation and though his license is revoked he also starts running drugs too. Oh Daddy-O, you are busy.
This film was a pretty good episode of Mystery Science 3000. The short preceding this one was kind of weird as it went through all the letters of the alphabet in the most random way possible and the bumps were pretty good. My favorite being Michael Nelson as the gym leader demanding Joel give him the key. The movie was pretty good as it may have been like a couple of other films they did, it had enough differences to keep it funny (the blind gym coach for example). Though I do prefer it when they do horror or science fiction, a couple of these older films featuring young folk gone crazy are usually pretty good too.
So the movie was not as bad as many of the films riffed, but by no means good. The riffs done here were pretty good and the film was so all over the place that it was varied and never got boring. The lead two characters were also done well enough that I did not want them dead. Which is good, because this was not a horror so the chances of them ending dead were very low.
The story has a part time truck driver who occasionally sings and also was apparently racing having a bit of a time with a blond who likes running guys off the road and later offering them a bite of apple. Well this guy's best friend in the whole world dies in a tragic car accident and the driver suspects foul play. Though, to be honest, their super great friendship is almost implied as there really are no scenes depicting them as super best buds. The truck driver ends up onto something big and soon gets hired on to sing at a club while he is on probation and though his license is revoked he also starts running drugs too. Oh Daddy-O, you are busy.
This film was a pretty good episode of Mystery Science 3000. The short preceding this one was kind of weird as it went through all the letters of the alphabet in the most random way possible and the bumps were pretty good. My favorite being Michael Nelson as the gym leader demanding Joel give him the key. The movie was pretty good as it may have been like a couple of other films they did, it had enough differences to keep it funny (the blind gym coach for example). Though I do prefer it when they do horror or science fiction, a couple of these older films featuring young folk gone crazy are usually pretty good too.
So the movie was not as bad as many of the films riffed, but by no means good. The riffs done here were pretty good and the film was so all over the place that it was varied and never got boring. The lead two characters were also done well enough that I did not want them dead. Which is good, because this was not a horror so the chances of them ending dead were very low.