Canada made the move in the late 1980's from slashers to sex comedies, so it seemed. This next Police Academy ripoff concerns firefighters and was filmed days after a very similar 80's sex on the job comedy, Recruits.
Writer, producer and star Mike Strapko - along with his brother and an actor named Goran Kalezic - were production assistants on that Wassanga Beach shot, Charlie Wiener-directed film.
Wiener made a TV movie called Blue Murder and Dragon Hunt in addition to this movie (he also wrote Screwball Hotel), so let me assure you - his scumbag skills are in full effect here.
We meet our heroes - such as they are - Sam (Kalezic), Keith (Eric Crabb) and Baduski (Strapko) as they leave the beach to fight a fire, which really ends up being a surprise party for the firefighting parrot Fireballs, who loves beer and breasts.
I really think I might never have to write again after that sentence.
The movie then becomes Gung Ho, as Japanese business owner Mr. Matsuro wants to bring his company to town, but thinks that the fire department can't handle things. He wants to bring in his own team of Japanese fire fighting experts.
Can you believe I just wrote that?
Strapko was supposedly an actual firefighter, so one would assume he'd want to make the profession look more heroic than this. Actually, scratch that. He just wanted to see as many breasts as possible, much like the character he's playing, which is really more John Belushi cosplay than anything.
This movie is my kind of film. It's neither sexy nor funny, so the more that it attempts either, it actually becomes more of the latter. For example, the idea of a bird that is dubbed to sound like it's swearing is mildly fine the first time, becomes grating and then annoying before becoming incoherently amazing. This is the kind of movie that demands to be watched with an entire table full of mind-altering substances and a group of people who refuse to judge it and instead demand that it get worse so that it gets better.
Writer, producer and star Mike Strapko - along with his brother and an actor named Goran Kalezic - were production assistants on that Wassanga Beach shot, Charlie Wiener-directed film.
Wiener made a TV movie called Blue Murder and Dragon Hunt in addition to this movie (he also wrote Screwball Hotel), so let me assure you - his scumbag skills are in full effect here.
We meet our heroes - such as they are - Sam (Kalezic), Keith (Eric Crabb) and Baduski (Strapko) as they leave the beach to fight a fire, which really ends up being a surprise party for the firefighting parrot Fireballs, who loves beer and breasts.
I really think I might never have to write again after that sentence.
The movie then becomes Gung Ho, as Japanese business owner Mr. Matsuro wants to bring his company to town, but thinks that the fire department can't handle things. He wants to bring in his own team of Japanese fire fighting experts.
Can you believe I just wrote that?
Strapko was supposedly an actual firefighter, so one would assume he'd want to make the profession look more heroic than this. Actually, scratch that. He just wanted to see as many breasts as possible, much like the character he's playing, which is really more John Belushi cosplay than anything.
This movie is my kind of film. It's neither sexy nor funny, so the more that it attempts either, it actually becomes more of the latter. For example, the idea of a bird that is dubbed to sound like it's swearing is mildly fine the first time, becomes grating and then annoying before becoming incoherently amazing. This is the kind of movie that demands to be watched with an entire table full of mind-altering substances and a group of people who refuse to judge it and instead demand that it get worse so that it gets better.