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Also known as Gremloids.

Isn't very clever and certainly not a riot of laughter, but have a funny premise (a Darth Vader-esque looking for the rebel leaders in Shelby, North Carolina) and some moments.

That guy as the protagonist and Paula Poundstone as the mistaken 'princess' are so miscast here.

The best is Chris Elliott taking the preposterous script and getting the best of his scenes as an 'alien expert', all snark in front of the camera.

I knew about this movie because is said it's very similar to the 1989 Weird Al vehicle UHF, and it's true: both are Orion Pictures productions and tell the story about a little tv station near bankruptcy that is saved for a colorful bunch of show starred by a bunch of misfits.

This one stand by its own talking about how the televangelists put the eye in the airwaves to $ell their me$$sage$ and get a lot of untaxed money.

Good laughs about the sudden conversion to 'pious' content of all the programming grid. At that time it was very obvious the deity all that people adore is the almighty $, isn't?

Some scenes may be a little bit questionable by today standards.

Pretty nice music here, with Dr. John and DEVO (as DOVE).

I recommend it.

Everything here is so preposterous to even take it seriously. If you try to make the synopsis, even that sounds like the deranged ramblings of someone very high in powerful 80's colombian produce, if you catch my drift LOL... Maybe that's how this was pitched and greenlit back then, who knows?

Unlike The Forbbiden Dance there are here more production values: a bigger cast, more dancing pros, a not-so-bad OST, but still, let's see what happen here: a guy who is high school teacher by day an THE Lambada-king at night (and happen to be mexican-born too) left his wife and kid in a daily basis, to go and keep his talents working only to be discovered by one of his students (a Melora Hardin that look here very into her 20's) and use that brazilian dance as learning tool for a bunch of East LA kids that want to learn computer programming. HAHAHA! No, REALLY...

Like there was a script ready for a movie about an awesome and cool teacher (like Stand and Deliver or Lean on Me) but when the lambada fad (and the colombian produce) kicked in the suits at charge decided to make a movie about it putting all into the blender.

Melora Hardin is HOT in here, and I suppose the dancing teacher isn't that bad looking either.

This is the kind of flick to watch when there is nothing else, for fun and giggles.

Kinda recommend it.