Leonard Part 6 [1987]

On paper Leonard Part 6 should be the most enjoyable bad movie of all time.

Bill Cosby Plays Leonard, family man, restaurant owner and CIA agent. He is separated from his wife and is convinced by the CIA to do one more mission. He is to retrieve a secret weapon from Medusa Johnson, head of some kind of Animal Liberation Front style terrorist group. This weapon has enabled Medusa to control animals and is using this new found ability to wipe out CIA’s secret agents. Medusas henchmen are all vegetarians, which for some reason plays a large part in how Leonard deals with them.

The insanity doesn’t stop there. During the course of this movie, Leonard meets a fortune teller who is supposedly speaking in Albanian but sounds like a made up language, rides on the back of an ostrich, attacks vegetarians with various meat products, does a ballet dance and drives about in a Porsche Tank.

The whole thing is supposed to be a comedy, a parody of James Bond and various action movies. This unfortunately fails in every attempt at humour. The timing is off, the jokes are very old and when watching it you can tell what they are trying to do, but don’t manage with any kind of success.

There is a problem when a film is meant to be a comedy and fails, it renders it so cringe-worthy and so hard to watch, that even a bad movie fan will have trouble getting through it. When horror or sci-fi miss the mark and fail to achieve, they usually have various redeeming factors that combine to make a great ‘bad movie’, unfortunately when comedy does this, there are very few ways of saving it.

To hit home how truly bad this movie is, you only need to ask Bill Cosby, whom while touring the US chat shows to do PR for the film, told people to not watch it, and in addition bought the rights to the TV broadcast of the film to ensure no station could ever air it.

If you want to see an example of a really bad movie, it is difficult to do worse than this. However bear in mind that it is more likely to make you pull your own teeth out in despair than make you laugh.

For your enjoyment heres a trailer….

Don’t say i didn’t warn you.

1/5