Review – Stay Tuned

With all the clever little inside jokes I figured this would be a movie by Chris Columbus or Joe Dante, so I was a little surprised to learn that Peter Hyams directed it. An underemployed couch potato (John Ritter) and his successful executive wife (Pam Dawber) get sucked into a strange version of hell where they find themselves trapped in evil parodies of popular TV shows. A lot of it is highly dated, mocking shows that have been off the air long enough to be largely forgotten. However, it has a moment or two. My favorite was the part in which the hapless couple is transformed into cartoon mice, complete with animation supervised by Chuck Jones. Too bad the movie didn’t feature more stuff like that and less mediocre sitcom silliness. Mildly amusing