Eric’s Bad Movies at Film.com: ‘Leonard Part 6′ (1987)
You could make a pretty strong case for Bill Cosby being the most successful and TV icon of all time. His shows include “The Bill Cosby Show” (1969-71), “The New Bill Cosby Show” (a variety show, 1972-73), “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” (1972-76, with later incarnations), “Cos” (another variety show, 1976), “The Cosby Show” (1984-92), “The Cosby Mysteries” (1994-95), and “Cosby” (1996-2000) — and those are just the ones with his name in the title. There was also “I Spy,” “The Electric Company,” and “Captain Kangaroo” (Picture Pages!).
Yet when it comes to movies, his most famous contributions are two huge disasters: “Ghost Dad” and “Leonard Part 6.” It is “Leonard Part 6,” an awful spy comedy from 1987, that we address this week in Eric’s Bad Movies at Film.com. Enjoy Dr. Huxtable’s humiliation!
October 8th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I remember “Ghost Dad” being pretty awful, too. Please tell me it will be the subject of next week’s installment!
October 8th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
******* you, Eric! Now I MUST locate this movie and watch it! It sounds amazing… ly bad! Entertaning bad or just bad?? Ghost Dad is another one I have to watch though I’ve seen it before and remember it being delightful when I was 8 years old.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Wasn’t he responsible for some nick jr. show too? Little Bill, or something like that? And I still can’t figure out the grammar behind that first sentence.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
“And the magical sphere that enables Medusa to control animals is guarded by bees, so the queen bee is handy as a distraction, as worker bees are notoriously horny.”
Worker bees are genetically girls, so the queen won’t make them horny. And they’re neuter, so they’re incapable of being horny anyway.
Oh, and I’m guessing that worker bees would only be distracted by their own queen, not some stranger queen (but we can blame that one on the movie).
October 8th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
“The Devil and Max Devlin” was a magnificent movie.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Please, please, please do “Krull” next. I need validation that it is as bad-funny as I thought it was.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:09 am
In addition to Binky’s “Max Devlin” shout-out, there’s also his string of comedies in the 70s – “Uptown Saturday Night,” “Let’s Do It Again,” “A Piece of the Action,” etc. Also, “Mother, Jugs & Speed” is the best movie title ever.
But yes, “Leonard Part 6″ is terrible.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Dustin: eeric did “Krull” this past August–it’s in the archives, you can check it out there. (And yeah, it’s exactly as bad-funny as you thought it was.)
October 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I too remember loving “Ghost Dad” when it first came out, having actually seen it in the theater at age eight, but then realizing how truly bad it was after watching it as an adult. It would be great to see that one reviewed in the future.
October 11th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
“The CIA is led by Joe Don Baker, which explains a lot of its problems.” oh it’s just too easy.
October 12th, 2009 at 7:32 am
“Melted butter, melted butter, melted butter.”
November 25th, 2009 at 2:15 am
I haven’t gone through all the movies featured in EBM, but I have a suggestion for you. Have you ever seen “The Pirate Movie”? It’s one of those epically bad movies that may or may not be loosely based on “The Pirates of Penzance”.