Film Review : Prime Time (1977)

 

"Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the regular broadcasts, a lineup of extremely tasteless programs and commercials have been substituted. Included in the mix are such show as The Shitheads, The Charles Whitman Invitational, and commercials for a number of improbable products."

   As you may have gathered, this is another one of those films which tried to replicate the success of "Kentucky Fried Movie" by scattergunning short, lowbrow segments at the screen in the hopes some of it will hit.  And if you've seen the likes of "Groove Tube", "Tunnel Vision" and "Sex O'Clock News"  then you'll know that this is not as easy to pull off as you might think.  

"Prime Time" may or may not make you laugh but I know for a fact that I didn't. Not once.  

 The problem is, it looked like the people involved went for "edgy" and "near the knuckle" but forgot to make it actually amusing.  The punchlines can be seen coming within about half a second and a couple of segments didn't seem to have any payoff at all.  I suspect that somebody said "Hey wouldn't it be funny if we did Charlies Angels but all the girls were plus-sized"  and assumed that would be hilarious without anything more. I strongly disagree. 

Don't bother with this. Go watch "Kentucky Fried Movie" or "Amazon Women On The Moon" instead. 

A Short List Of Things Which Can Fuck Off

 Since I'm feeling a bit grumpy today,  here's a short list of things that can get in the bin and then the bin can get set on fire.

1. WASPS

Wasps are bastards and exist for other reason than to spread fear and pain across the world. 

2. SPROUTS

There is food I don't like and there is food that I detest to the point where it's practically a blood-feud. 

Sprouts are top of that list.  Fuck off sprouts. Fuck all the way off.  

3. PEOPLE WHO DEFEND SPROUTS

There's always some little bollocks who decides to spout the old "Ah, you just need to cook them the right way..."

 No. Fuck you, you sprout-loving traitor to humanity.  You can cook potatoes in a hundred different ways and they're worth eating. Same with eggs. Same with bread. and cheese. If you have to  be a frigging alchemist to make sprouts edible then it's not worth the effort.

Also, if you love sprouts then you are my enemy and I despise you. 

4. THIS FRIGGING HEATWAVE

I don't like hot weather. I particularly don't like the part where I nip round to the shops and when I get home my t-shirt is wringing wet. When did the UK become a tropical  country?  Make it go away.

5. TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS

I don't have a picture for this one so you're going to have to bear with me. 

As i understand it, this is the theory that if you let rich twats make as much money as they like, some of that money will "trickle-down" to us plebs. 

Doesn't work.  Ever. 

Nah. what happens is that rich twats grab as much money as they can, hang on to it as much as possible and the only people that money "trickles down to" is politicians and other rich twats. So really more "trickles sideways"  Wankers. 

Well now I'm even grumpier and hotter than i was before so I'm going to get a cold drink and look at pictures of dogs. 

THAT'S ALL FOLKS