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: I simply didn't like it.
Summary: 1 Stars
Five star ratings for this? I must have really missed something here. Before I even begin, it's worth mentioning that I am typically very much a fan of low budget, campy splatter movies. Movies such as Army of Darkness, Toxic Avenger, and Evil Dead are easily among some of my all time favorites. However I have a limit to how much idiocy I can take in one sitting, and Bad Taste exceeded it many times over before the end credits began rolling.
Normally this would be the part of the review where I tell a bit about the plot, but this was just so nonsensical that I literally had to go online after I viewed it to look up a plot synopsis. If I have to follow up a movie watching experience with research on what the hell I just watched...Well, it's generally not something I enjoy doing, let's put it that way.
Bad Taste is apparently about an alien organization that harvests human meat for their fast food chain and an earthly organization that bands together to put a stop to foil their plans. What did I get out of Bad Taste? What appeared to be twenty grown men running around their backyard playing army man spouting indecipherable British banter for 90 minutes.
If this didn't have Peter Jackson's name preceding the title, this would just be another largely forgotten B-movie that might not have even made it's way onto DVD yet. But low and behold, tack a famous director's name on it, and suddenly it's gold. It's practically like sprinkling glitter on a turd. I am usually among that group that goes for this kinda stuff, but how can you enjoy a movie when you have no clue what's going on and you can't understand a word anyone onscreen is saying? Perhaps you were interested in checking out Bad Taste because you're a big fan of Jackson's Dead Alive. Be warned, although Bad Taste is quite gory, it is NOT in the same league as Dead Alive. Not even close. Or worse yet, if you were interested in taking a look at this because you enjoy Jackson's more famous movies such as Lord of the Rings, I'd be willing to bet you would be less than satisfied with Bad Taste to put it lightly.
It's understood that the appeal of this type of movie lies within it's ineptitude. A "So bad it's good" kind of charm. However when a movie FAILS at being BAD, you know something has gone horribly awry. I can certainly appreciate that this is low budget, a first effort, etc. But even still, you've got to have at least *some* standards. If gore alone makes a passable movie in your book, then Bad Taste is for you. Otherwise this is a safe one to skip.
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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