- Actors: Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: NR (Not Rated) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Olive Films
- DVD Release Date: 19 July 2011
- Run Time: 98 minutes
- ASIN: B004WJV70W
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 71,799 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
JAW-DROPPING
23 Jun 2011
I've read many reviews of Skidoo but finally having seen it, all I can say is--
It's so insane, it makes YOU insane.
It makes no sense. Sometimes it seems like an adult comedy about the middle aged establishment vs the counterculture. Sometimes it seems like home movies of a Friar's Club meeting. Sometimes it's a live-action cartoon. Absolutely nothing funny ever happens. It features Groucho, Ceaser Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Arnold Stang, John Philip Law, Slim Pickens, and naked hippie chicks in body paint. And a sweaty-faced Jackie Gleason taking an "acid trip."
Watching a middle-aged Carol Channing in her underwear and thinking, "Hey, she's not half bad!"?????
THAT's what SKIDOO will DO to YOU.
It's so insane, it makes YOU insane.
It makes no sense. Sometimes it seems like an adult comedy about the middle aged establishment vs the counterculture. Sometimes it seems like home movies of a Friar's Club meeting. Sometimes it's a live-action cartoon. Absolutely nothing funny ever happens. It features Groucho, Ceaser Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Arnold Stang, John Philip Law, Slim Pickens, and naked hippie chicks in body paint. And a sweaty-faced Jackie Gleason taking an "acid trip."
Watching a middle-aged Carol Channing in her underwear and thinking, "Hey, she's not half bad!"?????
THAT's what SKIDOO will DO to YOU.
28 of 32 people found the following review helpful
The Outrageous Milestone
7 May 2011
Otto Preminger was roughly 63 when he made 1968's "Skidoo," a youth-bent comedy written by Doran William Cannon, the guy responsible for the script of Robert Altman's "Brewster McCloud" (1972). Otto even experimented taking acid along with Groucho Marx, whom he had cast as "God" (the head of "The Tree," the protection racket or the Mob). The film also starred Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, John Phillip Law, Frankie Avalon, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Peter Lawford. At the premiere in 1968, Gleason walked out fuming it was reported. It was considered an abysmal flop by the critics. Even though it was definitely a traditional Preminger picture, the whole choice of it was the result of his desire to understand the youth revolution at the time. As with his next picture, "Tell Me that You Love Me, Junie Moon" Preminger wanted to understand what the culture was saying about love as he was always a great humanist. The film has beforeto been shown on television rarely from the vault at the Preminger estate mostly in embarassment and a great notoriety sprung up about it. It has been available for quite some time at a high quality DVD-R outlet called thevideobeat.com which specializes in great copies of a youth-based catalog. They have come to my rescue in finding obscure oddities years before and sometimes as the only miraculous provider of access to these films. I watch "Skidoo" and think the mechanics behind it are entertaining. I mean so many staples of Preminger's career are skewered, the casting of Burgess Meredith (he turns up in many Preminger films (even in a nude scene in "Such Good Friends" (1972)), Doro Merande, Arnold Stang (from "The Man with the Golden Arm"), clips from "In Harm's Way" in a witty segment skewering the lawsuit Preminger won against television cutting his films for commercials. Harry Nilsson did the music. Olive Films, whose product in the recent past have been excellent, high quality transfers, has added "Skidoo" for a new era in film. In May, they took on "Hurry Sundown" and "Such Good Friends." I thank them sincerely for their efforts and wish them continued success. It is terribly important that these films are available to get seen and to treat them respectfully deserves due credit.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Between the one and three there is a two!
22 July 2011
As far as I'm concerned, "Skidoo" is the funniest movie of all time. Where else can you see Jackie Gleason, Peter Lawford, Fred Clark, Slim Pickens, Richard Kiel, Burgess Meredith, and Frank Gorshin tripping on acid? Where else can Frankie Avalon with an awesome caterpillar 'stache? Where else can you see Groucho Marx as a mob boss named God? Where else can you see Carol Channing in her underpants? Nowhere, that's where.
Besides all these insane goings on, there is an amazing soundtrack by the great Harry Nilsson, who also plays the tower guard and sings the ENTIRE end credits. Yes, this film is that awesome.
"Skidoo" may not be the greatest film of all time, as evidenced by the critics reviews, but it is thoroughly entertaining, colorful, and downright hilarious.
Sadly, the long awaited DVD doesn't have any special features (or good cover art, for that matter) but the transfer is BEAUTIFUL and flawless.
As someone who believes every film should be released on DVD, no matter how "bad" they are claimed to be, this is a huge step in the right direction by the film studios. I hope that Olive Films is able to release more of the almost-forgotten classic 60s Paramount comedies on DVD in the near future.
Besides all these insane goings on, there is an amazing soundtrack by the great Harry Nilsson, who also plays the tower guard and sings the ENTIRE end credits. Yes, this film is that awesome.
"Skidoo" may not be the greatest film of all time, as evidenced by the critics reviews, but it is thoroughly entertaining, colorful, and downright hilarious.
Sadly, the long awaited DVD doesn't have any special features (or good cover art, for that matter) but the transfer is BEAUTIFUL and flawless.
As someone who believes every film should be released on DVD, no matter how "bad" they are claimed to be, this is a huge step in the right direction by the film studios. I hope that Olive Films is able to release more of the almost-forgotten classic 60s Paramount comedies on DVD in the near future.
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