Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure

Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure or Andy and the Airwave Rangers is a very unusual film. The acting by all of the actors is very good especially by Bo Svenson and Chuck Kovacic. The action and stuff is good. The movie is filmed very good but yet very unusual.The music is good. The film is very interesting and it is exciting. This is a good and different film. In My opinion I UI think that this film doesn't deserve the bad comments and the low rating. Why? This is a very unique 80s film and I think of this film as a rare gem of the era and not a bad flick at all. If you like Bo Svenson and the rest of the cast in the film, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and interesting films from the 1980s then I recommend this one!

Something bothered me about this film, it's all pieced together from other Corman movies. I guess you could call it a new movie... but I wouldn't. Using the "amazing" Blue Screen technology, Corman takes you through a pointless adventure with a Soap Opera budget. This IS the worst movie ever. I usually enjoy bad movies, but this goes far beyond that- NOT at all enjoyable. There's a villain that lives in a magic videotape that is trying to steal every shade of color. He has a castle that looks like spinning umbrella. This is so stupid... believe me. Even a 2 year old should not see this movie, it would be child abuse. I tried to burn the videotape after watching it, but it rejected fire. Save yourself the effort and just rent Battle Beyond the Stars. That way, you'll see all of the "good" footage that was used in this movie.

My review was written in January 1990 after watching the movie on RCA/Columbia video cassette.

Title is an unfortunate excuse to recycle stock footage from earlier Roger Corman films, using inadequate special effects to integrate new characters and scenes.

Randy Josselyn plays the title character, who picks up a dangerous video at his local store to while away the time babysitting for young sister Jessica Puscas.

An evil Lord Chroma (played by Chuck Kovacic) magically kidnaps Sis though the tv set to steal her "color" for his world. Josselyn pursues and through ultimatte effects is integrated into scenes from Corman's 1983 Vince Edwards-starrer "Space Raiders" (which itself was a recycling of stock footage from "Battle Beyond the Stars").

Bo Svenson makes a pointless guest appearance as Kor the Conqueror. Other characters are a waste of time and include a furry Glitch (Don Sparks who leads Josselyn through an unattractive landscape of static. Stretched-out end credits attempt to pad the program to feature length.

These kids get sucked into a video tape, yet end up in television. Television that only has terrible movies and Kool Aid commercials. Bad writing, acting, action and jokes are held together by terrible green screen work. The most amazing thing about this movie is that the girl's hi top Chuck Taylor comes untied and falls off. Something that could never happen in real life. I was shocked that I only recognized one of the old movies, Chopping Mall, which was actually new at the time. Never see this.

Admittedly I used to like this film.... Kill me. I was 9 though. I just found in my collection of old videos and tried to rekindle that something. Rekindle what? It's cheap and not cheerful. The whole things blows and makes the idea of wallowing in your faeces a good idea. Please don't watch this, for I fear of insanity.

ps.: anyone want to buy a copy?