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Antonio Banderas plays a washed-up, alcoholic, ex-famous heavy metal band bass player. His wife drags him to a July vacation in Chile (where it is winter in July, one of the running jokes.) She is kidnapped by insurgents while on a wildlife viewing tour. The rest of the movie is about Turk (Banderas) bumbling around the city while trying to ransom his wife back. But he is dogged by an overzealous American FBI agent, who hates his current assignment and has dreams of a big promotion, as well as delusions of grandeur.

Banderas basically is this whole film, though the actor playing the FBI agent is hilarious as well. I suspect that Banderas took the role as it is the opposite of his usual swashbuckling, handsome, heroic (or villainpus ) roles. The plot is very basic, but it's the acting and the little jokes that make me keep watching this again.

I won't relay the name of Turk's band's classic hit, because it's possibly NSFW. But watch the first few minutes of the film and you'll catch it. Anyone who is a fan of '80s hard rock or metal will laugh instantly. And I dare anyone to watch the "tortoise" dialog between Turk and the FBI, and not laugh (25:30 in, if you want to skip to it.) Lots of other funny and touching moments. It feels like the producers, director and actors had a lot of inside jokes going on between them all.

"Gun Shy" never takes itself seriously. That's getting rarer in cinema, and I love it.

Ganheddo was produced by the same Japanese studio which brought us Godzilla, and it shows... but in a good way. Where many, higher-budgeted films of the time were moving to computer-generated effects, Toho stuck with scale models and stop-animation, giving this movie a gritty look not often found in films of similar provenance.

Though the plot is difficult to keep up with at times, it is still enjoyable, made especially the more so by the character of Seven. This movie will be a godsend for fans of the Mechwarrior/vertical tank type stories. The plot revolves around a group of scavengers who happen across a defunct lair controlled by machines, cyborgs, and their master, a central computer. The scavengers are after a rare power source which fuels the complex. Having detected their presence, the computer counts down to self destruct. Matters are complicated when one of the crew becomes incorporated into the machine's consciousness.

Good cinematography, decent acting, and a fantastic story all contribute to this film's warrants. It's too bad that CGI has taken the forefront -- I think modern filmmakers could learn a lesson from this one.

This movie is not for the faint of heart. In fact, it seems as if the creators have done everything possible to make you abort viewing it before the last reel. The vast majority of people will find it offensive, disgusting, and vomit-inducing. I find it refreshing for that very fact.

"Sweet Movie" is a vehicle designed to elicit base reactions from the audience. While the plot is not coherent, the acting not ultimately believable, and the cinematography shaky at best, nevertheless the complete package is more than the sum of its parts. Especially for American audiences, I dare anyone to watch the entire movie without at least one genuine reaction of revulsion. And that makes it almost unique.