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Twister's Revenge!

Toss in a Zombie and a couple bucks towards the budget and Ed Wood would have been proud to direct this masterpiece of $#!+. I have write at least 150 character's to submit my review. Ok, Where were the Police?

Most of this movie is a slog, moving from one poorly paced comedy scene (containing exactly zero laughs) to the next, watching 3 hateable redneck three stooges battle an effeminate redneck hero, his girlfirend, and his sentient Knight Rider truck. It sounds like a lot more fun than it is, trust me. The worst part is the constant bad comedy and the complete lack of positive aspects. The best you can ask for here is a bizarre bar scene with a scantily clad BBW singing to a rowdy crowd, and 10-15 scenes of a monster truck running over a house façade with accompanying explosions. Pretty rough stuff.

I've enjoyed it mostly for observing how people are dressed, and how they look. Lots of interesting looking characters, particularly in the Tanglewood bar. :) I really enjoyed the scene where the big girl and her backup singers were performing a song ("Love Birds"?). The performance was really charming. I'm pretty sure the scene was also a reference to Star Wars as the bartender was wearing an alien mask, and one of the bikers looked like Chewbaca! I really wasn't paying much attention to the "plot", however, and neither of the leads is very interesting. The villains were slightly more interesting, specially the dumb one (looks slightly like Chuck Norris).

Here's another movie courtesy of Bill Rebane, director of such other cinematic gems as Monster-A-Go-Go and Giant Spider Invasion. In the movie Twister's Revenge we have a talking monster truck which takes on three 2nd grade drop-outs. When the 2nd grade drop-outs fail in their plan to take the truck, they decide to take the pretty lady computer programmer as a hostage instead. Endles footage of a giant truck roaming around the countryside is featured, with it occasionally running over other vehicles and smashing through hillbilly homes and outhouses. Toward the end we are treated to a showdown between the truck ("Twister") and a US Army tank loaded with ammo which happens to be parked off-base for some unexplained reason. Perhaps if you are seven years old then this movie might be entertaining, but otherwise forget it.

Dave (Dean West) runs a monster truck he uses in county fair competitions. It has a computer that acts like something out of Knight Rider but looks more like a TRS-80. Three bumbling thieves attempt to steal the computer, but end up getting Dave's scantily clad bride (Meredith Orr) and hold her ransom. Dave uses his truck named Twister to enact revenge...hence the not-so-clever title. The humor was brutish and slapstick and not good at that. I had no idea what they had in mind when they came up with this one. Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

This film is just awful yet does have some dorky comedy in it - just enough it entertained me to a degree. Basically the three are wannabe Three Stooges - from what I got out of it anyway. The movie is a bunch of non-sense: Three stupid criminals trying to get their hands on the control box of Mr. Twister. Mr. Twister is a thinking and talking monster truck - much like Knight Rider's KITT in the way it operates. I got enough giggles out of the film that I watched it until the end - even though it is a terrible flick. If you like dorky comedy films and talking computerized vehicles then you might like Twister's Revenge. 3/10

Twister's Revenge is one of the most hilarious movies I have ever seen. Absolutely full of bad acting and bad filming. I grew up in Wisconsin, in the very area where all of Bill Rebane's crazy movies were filmed. I have even been to his main location many times as he is my cousin's grandfather and they lived next door to each other when my cousin and I were little kids growing up. I know quite of a few of the extra actors in this zany film about a monster truck with artificial intelligence. Yes, it's a bad movie, but has fantastic value as comic relief when you just don't feel like thinking. I actually have an original tape somewhere. If you're into cheesy plots, half naked women and bad guys with that are definitely not the brightest crayons in the Crayola box, then this movies is for you!

Twisters Revenge was one of those rare films that fell through the cracks. In spite of the films $12.67 budget - it packed a cinematic punch. Laughable plot scenarios so vile, that you find yourself begging for more. When I first watched the film, I was unable to view the entire feature without "pausing" the action and phoning a friend in a hysterical fit of disbelief. Oh yes - it is advisable to drink fermented beverages while enjoying this film. The director "Bill Rebane" toys with your mind throughout this thrilling, evocative, masterpiece . . . The writers (Larry Dreyfus and William Aurthur) must have found their inspiration from perhaps, binge lamp oil drinking, or extreme tail pipe smoking. Make no mistake - I am a fan of this film. It delivers vomit worthy laughs your whole family will enjoy - regardless if you fathered your cousins . . .