Movie Notes: Leonard Part 6

December 13th, 2009

0 stars
So Bad It’s Good Rating: –8 stars

Starring Bill Cosby, Tom Courtenay, Gloria Foster
Directed by Paul Weiland

Synopsis

Leonard Parker (Bill Cosby), super-spy, emerges from retirement to thwart a vegetarian psychopath’s plan to destroy the San Francisco Bay Area with an army of mind-controlled animals.

The Good

• Takes place in San Francisco.

The Bad

• The opening credits feature kids drawings of animals drawn in crayon.
• Primary theme of Leonard being awesome. Probably due to Cosby’s ego.
• Direction all over the place. One of those movies where things are shot from all kinds of crazy angles for no conceivable reason, maybe on some prayer it would be worked out during editing. Everything, particularly action scenes, are rendered incomprehensible.
• Several decades on where veggie burgers are standard fare, the anti-vegitarianism angle comes across as dumb, not funny.
• Bill Cosby plays straight man to all the ridiculousness exploding around him, but he just looks bored.
• A litany of regrettable movie moments: Cosby riding an ostrich, raw hamburger used as a weapon, biting rabbits, terrible 80s music, dancing henchmen, the most ridiculous hero car ever, a butler that is no help whatsoever, lobsters, and Cosby covered with food.

Conclusion

Leonard Part 6 appears on many lists as one of the worst movies ever made. It lives up to this reputation. I can’t even make a list of suggestions on how to improve it — the entire movie is flawed from inception. This turkey is six parts dumb — plus one part ostrich.

IMDB: Leonard Part 6
Wikipedia: Leonard Part 6
Rotten Tomatoes: Leonard Part 6 9%