America 3000

1986 "Back to the beginning"
4.2| 1h24m| PG-13| en
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900 years after a nuclear war in the USA, mankind is back to the stone ages. Amazon women rule the tribes, while the men are weak and dumb - either kept as slaves or living wild as animals. Only Korvis and a friend are intelligent enough to flee and found a tribe of their own. Will they manage to teach the women to love men again?

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ThiefHott Too much of everything
Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
ShellyM I first saw this movie in the late 80's and I loved it. It was different from the usual post-nuke movies of the era, because it was an action comedy/adventure, rather than the dark, dystopian offerings such as Stryker, Endgame, etc etc. It occured to me, that given current world events, it's a juxtaposition of The Handmaid's Tale, when men are subjugated by women and are used as labourer, kept as pets and 'seeders' Note: Lynka, the Tiara's bestie wasn't enjoying the actThe film takes place some 900 years after the 'Great Nuke', and everything was peachy keen for the women until one fateful day, a male child was born, and things went pear shaped from there. I loved the women's empowerment theme in this movie. Their slang was hilarious. I liked the characters too. Korvis and Veena, make a lovely couple, don't you think?A bloody great movie!
Scott LeBrun This totally wacky post-apocalypse comedy lets the viewer know right away NOT to take it seriously, and it provides a lot of good-natured humour in what is basically a tale of war between the sexes. Feisty Amazonian babes rule the planet in the 31st century, keeping some men as slaves and others as "seeders", or sperm donors. One of the men is Korvis (studly Chuck Wagner), who stumbles onto some pretty big discoveries when he finds an underground bunker. He encourages his male buddies, including Gruss (William Wallace) to think differently about the roles played by men and women. He also finds out how much fun it is to play prez-ee-dent.The nutty dialogue is often hysterical; after a while you do pick up what certain words and phrases mean. This dialogue is delivered with the utmost sincerity by a great looking cast of guys and gals. The movie was filmed on location in Israel by those always reliable folk at the Cannon Group. It does lose its momentum, but regains it for an action packed finale. The actors and actresses are dressed sexily but never reveal anything, nor is the violence ever overly bloody. (This *is* rated PG-13.) Writer / director David Engelbach (who'd penned "Death Wish II" a few years previous) is having fun here, and that feeling is infectious. Some of the biggest laughs are delivered by a shaggy Bigfoot like character named Aargh the Awful (played by Steve Malovic); the final freeze frame involves Aargh and it's a howler.The audience may find themselves in tears, or rolling their eyes, at the abundance of silliness here. It's very much the kind of thing you'd watch with beers and friends. It's also well worth watching for any Laurene Landon fan, as she looks absolutely fantastic as always. Also supplying eye candy are Galyn Gorg ("RoboCop 2") as Lynka and Camilla Sparv ("Downhill Racer") as Reya. Shaike Ophir is endearing as put upon character Lelz.Accompanied by a quite appropriate cheese ball rock music score by Tony Berg, and effectively lit and photographed by David Gurfinkel, "America 3000" is overall just too hard to resist. It may not be "quality" stuff, but it sure as hell is entertaining.Seven out of 10.
eumel-123 !!!Warning: Consumption of the whole film will be deadly: Warning!!! Please, don't recognize more than a few minutes of this celluloid. !!!Warning: Consumption of the whole film will be deadly: Warning!!! This means only, that your brain will hurt. !!!Warning: Consumption of the whole film will be deadly: Warning!!! But more than a few minutes is equally to listen to a vogon's poem. !!!Warning: Consumption of the whole film will be deadly: Warning!!! So beware of too much consumption. !!!Warning: Consumption of the whole film will be deadly: Warning!!! It could be deadly. !!!Warning: Consumption of the whole film will be deadly: Warning!!!
quamp This movie was dumb, banal, and trite. That's about the best things I can say about it. The whole plot revolves around life after a nuclear war in which the men fight the women. The narrator is annoying, and everyone has those awful mid-1980's haircuts. Another bad call: one scene features a sign which reads "The Rolling Stones Farewell tour 1989." Legend has it that this movie was going to be in season 11 of MST3K. Even if that's not true, it should have been.