Review – Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

This thing makes Ed Wood look like Stanley Kubrick. I’m assuming it was originally supposed to be released as Rat Pfink and Boo Boo, but the title must have been changed to emphasize the omnipresence of low-quality go-go music. Our heroes – assuming we can call them that with a straight face – are two crime-fighting dorks who don costumes that look like they were assembled from a Salvation Army rag bag. They sally forth to wage poorly-choreographed battles against wrongdoers everywhere. Though nothing in this movie is good, the direction stands out as particularly terrible. Scenes go on and on with no plot development or even dialogue; in particular, a sequence in which a criminal follows a woman down the street seemed like it lasted for around half an hour without achieving anything that 30 seconds or so wouldn’t have done. And the whole movie is like that. It’s almost like they had several cans of film and felt duty-bound to use all of it. Perhaps I was just in a bad mood when I watched it, but this wasn’t even funny-bad. Just bad-bad. Wish I’d skipped it