Wednesday, January 16, 2008

HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1987)


Rowdy Roddy Piper kicking mutated frog-people ass while on a mission to make babies. Think I'm lying? Watch it for yourself or just read on.

After a nuclear war, that leaves many people sterile, fertility becomes a commodity. Sam Hell, a wanted man, when captured is found to be the most fertile man alive. The female run government enlists Hell to impregnate all the fertile women they can find. They make him wear this contraption that allows them to give electric shocks to his gonads whenever he does something they don't like. Spangle, the woman in charge of shocking Hell's junk, leads Hell along with Centinella, a female soldier, on a mission to save fertile women from Frogtown. Frogtown is a mutant reservation run by captain Toty along with his right-hand mutant with an eye-patch, Bull. Spangle's plan is to infiltrate Captain Toty's harem, while Hell breaks in to get them out. Unsurprisingly this does not go quite as planned. Spangle is forced to do the dance of the three snakes. She has to dance to arouse Toty's three snakes. This is exactly what it sounds like. She is rescued right after her dance is successful. They fight their way out of Frogtown only to be pursued by Toty in some kind of toad dune buggy/tank.

Rowdy Roddy Piper is Sam Hell in what seems to be practice for the dozens of terrible movies he will make in the years to come. He is actually quite fun to watch in this movie. He is not the best looking or most convincing actor but he brings some fun to this movie. The frog mutants are also very entertaining. The costumes make the dialogue matching difficult and it shows, but it also makes it a little funnier. Why is every woman in this movie, even the frog woman, so attracted to Roddy Piper? I'm convinced that this is one of those unanswerable questions. While on the mission they drive a strange pink militant vehicle. I don't even know how to describe it.
There is so much unintentional humor in this movie i can't even list it all. While most of what is supposed to be funny is just cheesy. The funniest part of the whole movie is the dance of the three snakes. It contains both intentional and unintentional humor. The last twenty minutes is mostly action, even if it is cheesy. Add all this together and it is a silly, cheesy, campy and unusual look at the post-apocaylptic genre. However you won't forget it once you've seen it and chances are, whether you like it or hate it, you will enjoy watching it.

I just found out after watching this, that there are more frogtown movies. FROGTOWN II, TOAD WARRIOR, and MAX HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN. Watch for reviews once i can find these movies.

2 comments:

BritneyMarie said...

Oh...my...God...I...Words can't describe how dumb the premise of this movie is. So dumb, in fact, that I think we will have to check this movie out. Haha!

elgringo said...

I'm picturing a mixture of the "Super Mario Bros." movie, Disneyland's Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and the frog scene from Magnolia. Oh yeah, starring an ex-WWF World Heavyweight Champion. Am I anywhere close?

Scott
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