Bad Taste
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Actor: Costa Botes, Graham Butcher, Michael Gooch, Peter Gooch, Robin GriggsDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Bad Taste
Movie Review: Low Budget my @$$
Summary: 3 Stars
You might as well go ahead and forget the fact it's low budget, because it's mighty impressive that a movie like this was made on a shoe-string budget (the masks were baked in Peter Jackson's mother's oven!). Peter Jackson's first film is a gory comedy action movie (In my opinion, this isn't a horror movie or a horror comedy) about aliens that take over a town to harvest them for their fast food franchise.
Bad Taste really isn't TOO gory (nowhere as gory as Dead Alive) as it has more action and tense parts that lead to action, with some humor. Even though there isn't that much gore, there's no shortage of inspiration, or at least some memorable parts. The beginning of the movie where the alien gets his top part of his head shot off is great and looks gross (the way it's supposed to be! Yum.), and seeing the machine gun being fired off is awesome too. I won't really spoil it all for you, but the gore parts will most likely keep you entertained, though don't come just for that.
The story may be a bit bare bones and cheesy, but that's the way I like it! And the actions scenes on it are pretty funny and there are rocket launchers being fired and plenty of machine guns. It's a good watch, though it isn't really, for me, worth having on DVD (hence the three stars). Still worth a watch and entertaining.
Summary of Bad Taste
Could a title be any more direct? New Zealand maverick Peter Jackson made a splash (well, more of a splatter) with this film debut, a slapstick gross-out comedy about an alien fast-food franchise that turns a small town into a cheap source of meat. All that stands in the extraterrestrials' way is the Alien Investigation Defense Service (yes, it's a tasteless gag), a bunch of would-be Rambos who take on the aliens with axes, rocket launchers, and chainsaws. Jackson mines vomit jokes, dismembered corpses, and brain-spattering gore for over-the-top laughs and succeeds with inventive low-budget effects, crack timing, and sheer exuberance. Not bad for a film made on weekends with homemade props and a bunch of energetic mates. Jackson topped himself a few years later with the even more outrageous and hilarious bloody gut-buster Dead Alive.The limited-edition two-disc set also includes the documentary featurette "Good Taste Made Bad Taste," a revealing "making of" shot at the time of production and featuring behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson's home-made special effects, and a 16-page booklet with cast interviews. --Sean Axmaker
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