I thought they did away with movies like this.
"Under the Rainbow" purports to tell the story of how hundreds of midgets apply for parts as Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz" being filmed in the 1930s, and then proceed to trash one unfortunate hotel during their stay. It also horns in details such as how an assassination plot is foiled, a nefarious Nazi plot is thwarted as one certain midget (Hubbert) learns self-esteem.
All this while the movie makes demeaning caricatures out of midgets, Japanese, women, blacks, Italians and if there's any race, creed or color that was left out, they must have been running out of film stock by that time.
They even kill off a lot of dogs, all for the sake of laughs. Do they get any? No, not even then.
Chase is wasted (again), Fisher is still too well identified as Princess Leia to be convincing as anyone else, and when the screenplay isn't being racist, misogynistic or tasteless, it's just downright dumb ("The pearl is in the river"? Please; I was a junior in high school when this came out and I could have written better than that!).
If you just want to watch something for sheer stupidity's sake, here's your "Rainbow". Just don't expect a pot of gold at the end - just potshots.
One star. And never let midgets borrow your elevator cable.
"Under the Rainbow" purports to tell the story of how hundreds of midgets apply for parts as Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz" being filmed in the 1930s, and then proceed to trash one unfortunate hotel during their stay. It also horns in details such as how an assassination plot is foiled, a nefarious Nazi plot is thwarted as one certain midget (Hubbert) learns self-esteem.
All this while the movie makes demeaning caricatures out of midgets, Japanese, women, blacks, Italians and if there's any race, creed or color that was left out, they must have been running out of film stock by that time.
They even kill off a lot of dogs, all for the sake of laughs. Do they get any? No, not even then.
Chase is wasted (again), Fisher is still too well identified as Princess Leia to be convincing as anyone else, and when the screenplay isn't being racist, misogynistic or tasteless, it's just downright dumb ("The pearl is in the river"? Please; I was a junior in high school when this came out and I could have written better than that!).
If you just want to watch something for sheer stupidity's sake, here's your "Rainbow". Just don't expect a pot of gold at the end - just potshots.
One star. And never let midgets borrow your elevator cable.