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by Lee James Turnock
[i]Wacko[/i]? More like wanko, in all honesty. Even though the video's packaging draws a comparison to the surprise absurdist comedy hit [i]Airplane![/i] (and even suggests that it's the superior offering), the only similarities between the two films are their eclectic casts - as well as stalwart character actors Joe Don Baker, Charles Napier and George Kennedy, we get early appearances from Andrew Dice Clay and voice actor / occasional pop singer EG Daily - and a scattershot, gag-heavy approach which is decidedly hit and miss, although in the case of [i]Wacko[/i], if one in every fifty jokes actually lands on its intended target, that's about as good as it gets. The technical credits hover around average, and the majority of the film is so poorly lit one can only wonder what's actually supposed to be happening - as a result, a smattering of genuinely clever and subversive touches (such as the caption that advises us to go off and get some refreshments during a pointless dream sequence) tend to get lost in the quagmire. One of only a couple of dozen releases from CBS/Fox's insalubrious Avatar imprint (which also gave us Juan Piquer Simon's deliriously silly and relentlessly grisly [i]Pieces[/i]), Wacko promptly vanished off the face of the earth, before turning up again, slightly ashamed of itself, for a single late-night broadcast on Anglia television in about 1990 - and promptly vanished again.