If your game for a PORKYS style T&A flick you may get a kick out of this movie, which a perfect example of the genre but laughably lame in all respects. A Japanese corporation offers to set up a factory in a deep south town if the town has a decent fire department which leaves the party animals currently employed scrambling to save their jobs while ensuring the four new recruits meet their approval.
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Police Academy-esque
BandSAboutMovies10 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
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.
Amateurish to the max
$TEVE McD22 January 2000
Stealing its title from other lowbrow comedies of this sort(Screwballs,Meatballs)this is barely even up to those film's standards,and that's definitely not saying much.It's filmed with an amateur camera,the voices are dubbed,the acting is unbearable and the film has absolutely no points of interest.
You really start to wonder if the makers of these sorts of movies even make back the little money they spent making them,I mean surely no video company,no matter how cheap,would buy a film like this.
You really start to wonder if the makers of these sorts of movies even make back the little money they spent making them,I mean surely no video company,no matter how cheap,would buy a film like this.
4 small town losers become firemen and bring along a pet parrot that likes to party. They get the job, then women, then get fired.
darren-59115 September 2009
It may be an exercise in bad film making but the bad taste takes on a life of it's own. It is so bad it is funny at times in that very fact. It surely is not boring and will elicit an emotion of some sort. As far as b movie fodder goes, it funny because it is obvious the film makers were serious about the endeavour but clueless about film making rules and standards. In one scene they race to what you think is a fire but end up at a surprise birthday party for their pet parrot that drinks, sings dirty limericks and snatches women's clothing away from them when they least expect it. Of course there is plenty of gratuitous nudity and the continuity is atrocious. In one sequence a truck travels to the scene of a fire and you see three different trucks in shots edited together. Bad but funny. A little bit anyway.
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