When Nature Calls (1985)
When Nature Calls
aka The Outdoorsters
Directed by Charles Kaufman
Written by Charles Kaufman and Stan Weisman

I find this gag to be ‘bearable’.
“How many people remember that Eleanor Roosevelt had great tits?”
Seven years after Kentucky Fried Movie, a different group of filmmakers decided to basically do the same thing: a theatrical experience that was a parody of the entire theater going experience. You get fake trailers, fake theater announcements, fake concession stand ads (here’s a hotdog doing another hotdog doggy style! brilliant!) and a feature presentation that makes mockery of a big hit.
It doesn’t help us much now that the object of the film’s scorn, the series of Wilderness Family movies in the late 70’s, are pretty much forgotten now. Those were a series of film where the dad took everyone out into the woods where they were much happier without the technology. And, you know, other people.
They use most of the film’s run time to skewer this, but rather than settle for a simple parody, they mixed their approach with the Airplane gag-a-minute philosophy, and while there are a lot (a lot) of misses, it still works out since the people in front of the camera seem to be having such a good time.
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Posted by Danny Reid -
November 14, 2012 at 11:56 am
Categories: Good, Movie Reviews Tags: Barbara Marineau, Charles Kaufman, David Orange, Films of Troma, Gates McFadden, guy in a bear suit, Matthew Adams, Nicky Belm, Stan Weisman, Tina Marie Staino