Reviews

Ugh. Just caught this flic on the telly. It's an utterly cheezy 70's-style film, set at a lake resort where aging men in mid-life crisis encounter California lake beach-bums for the purpose of rescuing Barbara Eden from an arrogant younger man (Patrick Swayzee) who's affections are not being reciprocated. Her geezer-biker-dude-wannabe arrives to rescue her. Ho hum. The music is kitchy, but the scenery is great - the film's only redeeming quality. A good retrospective peak back at 70's fashion faux pas. Bad overacting all over the place, especially from Jamie Farr. Was fun to see them all in their earlier days though. And Barbara in her later.

Heartfelt thanks to Dickie Rude for creating this film and sharing it with those of us who loved and continue to love Joe Strummer so much. I also saw "Let's Rock Again" at AFI Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, and personally hosted by Dick Rude. It was as hard for me to sit through this film as it was for Dickie because I still feel so much pain from the loss of Joe. Both of us found ourselves crying in the back of the theatre during the film. Dickie has brought a part of Joe back to us and continues to remind us of what a great force and marvelous human being Joe was. I look forward to the film's release on DVD and recommend that as many people as possible check it out, if not only to continue our remembrance of Joe, but to continue to praise him. He is my only God.

I watched this film just waiting for Charleton Heston to pop up from behind a rock or sand dune. Sheesh! Talk about your corn-ball 1950's re-makes! Someone tell Wolfgang that we're in 2004 now! Please! The music was stale, the camera work was stale and choppy (too many, too tight shots with the tops of the characters' heads lopped off), lame & uninteresting dialog.... I thought I was watching a made-for-TV mini-series all in one sitting. Then there was the "Look-everyone!-it's Peter O'Toole!" shot - or the "Hey! Remember me? I'm-not-dead-yet-Peter-O'Toole" shot. Yeah, yeah. We KNOW who Peter O'Toole is. Glad you were able to get him for this film. Congrats. Too much emphasis on special effects to carry the film, which simply cannot make up for this ineffective and weak screenplay, and really simple-minded dialog. Sure, it was nice to see good-looking, half naked men running all over this film, but that's about its greatest redeeming quality. (All I kept thinking about Achilles was, "Gee. Jennifer Aniston's a lucky woman!)Helen's character was severely lacking in any development whatsoever; I mean, HELLO! - she's the reason this story even happened. Otherwise, just another re-run period piece. A total schnoooooooozer. Zzzzzzzzzzz. -pj