Moron Movies

The title says it all.

Shot with a home video camera, this so-called comedy features one "actor" in a series of 15-30 second one-liners, none of which are even remotely funny. While it's not as painful to watch as LEONARD PART 6 and nowhere near as bad, it did absolutely nothing for me. So dull, I find it difficult to write a scathing review.

At least LEONARD PART 6 and RAPTOR afforded me that opportunity.

Rating: One sub-mediocre * out of *****

Moron Movies is the absolute worst movie I have seen in my entire life. The skits in this movie are entirely pointless and just not funny. I think that by watching this film I became less intelligent. I could actually feel my brain cells dying. Anyone who makes a movie (and I use that word very loosely)like this deserves to be put in a burlap sack, drug into the street and beaten severely with shards of bamboo. At the least, the man deserves a swift kick in the crotch. Put simply, its awful.

This is strange stuff.

Len Cella has compiled a time capsule of odd shorts, some very short... often lasting only a few seconds. They range from extraordinarily dumb to genuinely profound, or vice-versa depending on how open-minded you are. Moron Movies is certainly not for all tastes and it sometimes requires some dedicated soul searching in order to keep from asking yourself, "Why the hell am I watching this?".

However... don't give up on it before asking yourself why somebody would cook up such a silly collection of sketches... and why a commercial distributer would agree to pick it up and distribute Moron Movies in the first place, or why some of these sketches were aired from time to time on Carson's stint of The Tonight Show many years before Moron Movies was actually compiled and distributed. There's some inspired lunacy among the sketches that requires some investigation and thought. Of course, there's also some lamebrained efforts in this mix that make no sense at all. You decide.

Make no mistake, Moron Movies might be totally wacko and so bad it's funny in an Ed Wood Jr'ish sort of way. But then perhaps that was the whole point to begin with. It's sure not for everybody but for those who tend to share the same lunacy as Len Cella it can produce some good laughs... and those people could well find themselves repeating some of the catch phrases contained in Moron Movies in spite of themselves...

"I can type 90 words a minute but nobody will hire me just because I'm a shark."

"Does this aggravate ya? Huh? Heh heh heh..."

"They made this out of an old Buick."

As a last note, it's worth the trip through this stuff to watch Len shuffle a stack of sliced salami.

Hey, if Johnny Carson can find merit in Cella's skits, that in itself is saying something. Some people are going to love Moron Movies. Of course, others will simply record cartoons over it.

I have to say, this is not a good movie, BUT it is a fascinating one. It taps directly into the "This taste's awful, here, try some" nature of humanity. Try this experiment; rent the movie. Go somewhere where people will wander through and put the movie on. People will wander in, and say "What are you watching?". Then they will start talking about how stupid the skits are. Then they will say they can't believe they are watching it. Then they will say they are leaving...but they won't. Then they will slowly sink to their seat, all while badmouthing the movie. When the next person wanders by, like as not the exact same thing will happen. And the next. And the next. These movies are human flypaper, and eventually, you will laugh.

Len Cella is the King of Comedy! Period! This collection of 100, 30 second videos is freaking great! Pure genius! If the SNL guys would take a hint from Mr. Cella they could easily reclaim their former glory. Sketches like "Truck Wrestler", "How To Kick Yourself, parts 1 and 2", and "Why Animals Should Wear Underwear" are just a few of the few comic gems that shine in this treasure chest of pirate's booty. I will secede that there are some sketches in the middle that are repetitive but they are few and the other movies more than make up for them.

If you don't like this collection it could be that the jokes are to sophisticated for you, I recommend watching a movie like Legally Blonde, the jokes in that would probably be less of a challenge for you.

I give this collection five asterisk's out of five.

And you better believe that once I get my hands on a copy of More Moron Movies I am going to watch it because I am sure that Len Cella will not disappoint, and keep me rolling in the aisle all the way through.

Thank you, and God bless you Len Cella, King of Comedy, keep spreading the good word!