Okay, it's finally happened. They're bringing Skidoo out on an official DVD.
Don't know Skidoo? Well, understand this. This is not a good movie. It's also not really a bad movie. It transcends the concepts of "good" and "bad." It was directed by Otto Preminger in 1968 in a spectacularly-misguided attempt to capture some kind of youth audience and what makes it odder still is the cast: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Mickey Rooney, Burgess Meredith, Peter Lawford, George Raft, Frankie Avalon, other folks like that…and in his final motion picture appearance, Groucho Marx in the role of God. Gleason called the picture "the greatest meatball of all time" and he didn't mean that as a compliment despite his apparent love of meatballs.
The DVD will be out in July and you can advance order it from Amazon by clicking here. If you've seen it, you probably want a copy just so you can show it to others who don't know the film and watch their reaction. They will have one. It may be shock, horror, hilarity, diphtheria or disgust but they will have one. I once experienced all those feelings and that was just during the opening titles.
That's Skidoo. It's more than just a movie. It's the reason so many people my age can't remember the sixties.