![]() This reminds me of… …the 1993 HBO remake with starring Darryl Hannah, which was so-so at best, despite direction from Christopher Guest, star of This is Spinal Tap, which remains one of the funniest movies in the universe.ĭid you know? Oddly compelling co-star Yvette Vickers (Honey) appeared nude in the July 1959 edition of Playboy magazine, lying on her stomach so as to maximize her considerable assets. Moral of the Story: Don’t believe a word he tells ya, darlin. And who wants to live in an institution?”) (But as someone once said: “Marriage is an institution. Certainly not the idea of holy matrimony. What gets attacked beyond repair: A car a house a hotel a bar a small-town hussy a no-good lowdown two-timin’ bum a devoted wife. ![]() That’ll put you in the driver’s seat.” (Yep, that’s three clichés in just two sentences.) Mayhem ensues, in less-than-fifty-foot doses.īest lines of dialogue: “Once she’s in the booby hatch, throw the key away. Nancy proceeds to raise the roof, literally. Nancy swans into town, moving in a dreamy slow-motion, and scares a couple teenagers rips down a motel sign (ooh) and breaks a window ( ooh!) before making her way to the bar where heavy-gropin’ Harry and heavy-breathin’ Honey are sharin’ spit. Unfortunately, the movie really breaks down here, as this is about the lamest “rampage” in the history of film. There’s about ten minutes left in this movie, and we finally get what we paid to see: a rip-snortin’ Nancy on the rampage. Hey! How’d that happen?įrankly,we don’t care. She’s found by the neighbors, tucked into bed and given a shot–and then expands to fifty feet in height. ![]() Before you can say, “What kind of self-respecting space alien needs a diamond necklace to power his spaceship, anyway?” Nancy reappears, unconscious but alive, on the roof of the pool house. Not so unexpectedly, ownself-savin’ Harry jumps in the car and flees, leaving bosom-heavin’ Nancy to cope. Tear-spewin’ Nancy convinces jaw-clenchin’, booze-guzzlin’ Harry to accompany her to the desert to look for that spaceship-and unexpectedly, they find it. Nancy must be fresh out of the mental asylum, because she’s still ga-ga over sweet-talkin’, heart-breakin’ Harry she tells him, “I love you, Harry… What’s wrong with us, Harry?” Harry doesn’t bother answering, but we in the audience have a hard time not screaming at the top of our lungs: “What’s wrong is that he’s a no-good dirty rat, Nancy! Wake up! He only wants your money!” Oh yes-Nancy has 50 mil tucked away somewhere, which should explain why Harry keeps sniffing around (and Honey keeps sniffing around Harry).
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