Thursday, August 23, 2012

Just Imagine (1930)

Fox Film Corporation
Directed by David Butler
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)

It starts out as a kitschy look at fifty years in the future, which reveals more about 1930 than 1980. The future residents of NYC get around mostly by airplane, but frequently break out into songs, including crooning with a ukelele or big synchronized dance numbers. El Brendel is a dumb resident of 1930 revived in 1980, who gets hooked on alcohol pills and performs vaudeville comedy routines. Things take a turn for the worse when John Garrick and friends take a rocketship to Mars. They find scantily clad dancing girls and big men in caveman outfits. Did I mention the dancing Martian monkeys?

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