Birds Do It (1966)
1/10
Unbelievably Bad (but firmly in the so-bad-it's-good category)
31 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is absolutely incredibly. I consider myself a connoisseur of bad films and this is up there with the best of them. It's got all the key elements, bad acting, confusing plot, poor direction, lame attempts at humor, etc. But without a doubt it is worth seeking out. I couldn't believe that they actually released this film. Who paid money to see it and why? Did they stay to the end? It's filled with so many wonderful clichés. It's got a great hippie dance party scene. (Best gag: The music on the radio ends and the weather report comes on, but those cats are soooo cool that they dance to the weather report too.) There's a lot of pointless chase sequences which are loads of fun. A monkey that's good for a bunch of gags. The bumbling criminals sadly didn't add that much to the film, primarily because the script was so confusing you had no idea what they were attempting to do and why.

The only problem is the ending. For me, a real good bad film has to keep you glued to your seat throughout the whole thing. They dragged out the ending so much that I kept grabbing the remote to see how much time was left. It's just this dumb, one-joke gag about Soupy Sales flying around. I don't know why they felt the need to pad the ending out so much. They kept on reusing shots, speeding things up, slowing them down, using the same pointless gags. The only thing that kept me going was trying to spot the wires holding the stuntman up in the air.

If you like 'em so bad that they hurt, seek this one out. It will keep you entertained until the final sequence. You can then just fast forward when it gets too painful.
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