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By ED<\/a> \u2013\u00a007\/20\/2011 <\/abbr>FIND OTHERS:\u00a0<\/strong>DVD<\/a>,\u00a0MOVIE<\/a>,\u00a0REVIEW <\/a>GET MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0COMEDY<\/a>,\u00a0CULT<\/a>,\u00a0OLIVE FILMS <\/a>STUDIO:<\/strong>\u00a0Olive Films\u00a0| DIRECTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Otto Preminger\u00a0| STARS:<\/strong>\u00a0Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Groucho Marx, Peter Lawford, John Phillip Law<\/div>\n

RELEASE DATE:<\/strong>\u00a07\/19\/11\u00a0| PRICE:<\/strong>\u00a0DVD<\/a>\"\"\u00a0$24.95
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<\/a><\/a>Some late 1960s box-office flops hold no allure for the modern viewer.\u00a0Skidoo<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, however, is a legendary cult movie that never loses its power to both amaze and amuse. A bizarre misfire from renegade Hollywood filmmaker Otto Preminger (Hurry Sundcown<\/em><\/a>),\u00a0Skidoo<\/em>\u00a0is, along with\u00a0Myra Breckenridge<\/em>, the single best example of a major studio film trying to tap into the \u201cyouth market\u201d and failing in a spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n

Preminger was a singularly stubborn, trailblazing filmmaker whose best films \u2014\u00a0Laura, Anatomy of a Murder\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 never tarnish. His decision to venture into \u201cacid cinema\u201d was a bold and wildly misguided one, as he decided to aim his drug comedy at middle America by gathering a cast of beloved \u201cstraight\u201d stars (Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon). To further muddy the waters, he made what is essentially a sitcom \u2014 or more properly a prolonged Gleason sketch (think the \u201ccolor\u00a0Honeymooners<\/em>\u201d years) with LSD as a central catalyst.<\/p>\n

Olive\u2019s release of the 1968 film is thus invaluable, because it has long been one of those cult movies that is talked about more than seen (a recent airing on TCM was the first TV showing since the 1980s). Once viewed, though,\u00a0Skidoo<\/em>\u00a0can never be forgotten. Its camp joys range from Gleason\u2019s surreal acid-trip sequence (with a singing and dancing Mickey Rooney!), to Channing performing in a top that is way too form-fitting, to Groucho sleepwalking through his part as a Mob boss known only as \u201cGod,\u201d and a prison sequence that finds\u00a0Batman\u00a0<\/em>villains (Burgess \u201cThe Penguin\u201d Meredith, Frank \u201cThe Riddler\u201d Gorshin) tripping on LSD.<\/p>\n

Preminger made many odd choices in putting the film together, but his soundest decision was employing singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson to compose the score. Nilsson\u2019s knack for catchy, hook-driven melodies serves the picture well \u2014 and makes scenes like a trash-can \u201cballet\u201d sequence make sense (nearly).<\/p>\n

Preminger also did something that has never been repeated in a major-studio picture: He had Nilsson sing the end credits, right down to the copyright and legal notices, thus supplying a suitably perverse ending to a most perverse movie.<\/p>\n

The Olive DVD release contains no extras. But the film itself is an essential buy for those whose taste runs to the outr\u00e9 and the campy, \u201cincredibly strange\u201d items that emerged from Hollywood as it tried in vain, pre-Easy Rider<\/em><\/a>, to figure out how to satisfy its regular audience while also grabbing the burgeoning youth demographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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