I'm not against silly comedies. In fact, I rather enjoy them, but Wacko offers only a couple of chuckles throughout its 90 minute run time and that's just not acceptable for a film billed as a comedy. Comedy, much like the horror genre Wacko spoofs, is incredibly subjective and not all types of comedy will make everyone laugh. Wacko has a few decent gags that it beats into the ground like a dead horse.
The first laugh comes in the opening prologue where George Kennedy climbs up a ladder to spy on a teenage girl who's changing for a night out. She catches him and says something along the lines of "daddy! Not again!". It's funny (in a slightly disturbing way) the first time, but this gag is repeated at least two or three more times throughout the film with his other daughter (Julia Duffy) and it gets old quickly.
Wacko has the ability to take an ok joke and repeat it 50 times to the point where we just want to find the filmmakers and hammer them on the head. Maybe they only wrote 5 jokes and felt the need to repeat them to bulk up the run time.
When the other early 80's slasher spoof, Student Bodies, is starting to look like a masterclass in comedy, you know you're in trouble. Skip it!
The first laugh comes in the opening prologue where George Kennedy climbs up a ladder to spy on a teenage girl who's changing for a night out. She catches him and says something along the lines of "daddy! Not again!". It's funny (in a slightly disturbing way) the first time, but this gag is repeated at least two or three more times throughout the film with his other daughter (Julia Duffy) and it gets old quickly.
Wacko has the ability to take an ok joke and repeat it 50 times to the point where we just want to find the filmmakers and hammer them on the head. Maybe they only wrote 5 jokes and felt the need to repeat them to bulk up the run time.
When the other early 80's slasher spoof, Student Bodies, is starting to look like a masterclass in comedy, you know you're in trouble. Skip it!