Is Bill Cosby's "Leonard Part 6" as batsh*t insane as the description makes it sound?

[astro]

It sounds utterly insane. It says it's a cult fave now. Is it so bad it's good, or is it just bad?

Synopsis

SPOILER:

Bill Cosby plays Leonard Parker, a former CIA spy. According to the opening sequence of the movie, the title refers to the idea that this film is actually the sixth installment of a series of films featuring the adventures of Leonard, as parts one through five were locked up in the interests of world security.

The movie starts with Parker being re-recruited by the CIA to save the world from an evil vegetarian who brainwashes animals to kill people. The film ends with Leonard infiltrating the vegetarian base, fending off the vegetarians with magic meat he received from a gypsy, freeing the captive animals and flooding the base using Alka-Seltzer. He escapes by riding an ostrich on the roof of the building, with the ostrich flying him down.

[E-Sabbath]

... no, it was just bad.

[TBG]

As bad as Ghost Dad?

[Cisco]

I even hated it as a kid, and I didn't hate any movies as a kid.

[mobo85]

Based on this review, I would say yes.

[DrFidelius]

Originally Posted by TBG

As bad as Ghost Dad?

Not having seen "Ghost Dad," but having gone to see "Leonard, Part 6" in the theaters, I must say that LP6 is worse. This is from a standpoint of an absolute scale of movie badness, whereby LP6 is one of the classic benchmarks of "bad moviedom."

[batsto]

I liked it. And I don't think I've ever liked anything else Bill Cosby has done---I positively hated the 'Cosby Show' when I was growing up. Of course, I was in High school when I saw LP6, and I remember little about it, other than that I (and the friend who watched it with me) both laughed quite a bit at it.

[Maus Magill]

Originally Posted by batsto

I liked it. And I don't think I've ever liked anything else Bill Cosby has done...

Let me put it this way. There's a reason why Bill Cosby wasn't a major box office draw. The dude make shitty movies.¹

[1] Except Bill Cosby - Himself.

[CandidGamera]

I liked Leonard Part 6. It's surreal.

[GuanoLad]

I seem to recall an ostrich riding scene.

[Uosdwis R. Dewoh]

Didn't Bill Cosby himself, on some talk show, say that people should not go and watch the movie?

[typoink]

I saw this years ago. It's terrible, but I remember being entertained by it. The premise is so hard to swallow and it's insanely cheesy. And yet it feels like it had a budget, making it all the more tragic.

[mobo85]

Originally Posted by Uosdwis R. Dewoh

Didn't Bill Cosby himself, on some talk show, say that people should not go and watch the movie?

Yes he did. He also bought the rights to it to keep it off television, and accepted his Golden Raspberry Award in person.

[photopat]

First let me say I'm a tremendous fan of Cosby's stand up albums. Fat Albert's Car is one of the all time great routines.

As to LP6...

Awful. Lousy. Stinky. Terrifying in it's badness. An abomination of the screen. Theaters that showed it had to be burned, the ground on which they stood covered with salt and the projectionist's eyes removed by surgeons so they wouldn't claw them out on their own.

It was a waste of a good $3.00.

[Push You Down]

...I love this movie. It's BIZARRE but oddly amusing.

I love the scene where his manservant is removing the bullets from his arm.

I tracked down a VHS copy of it 6 or so years ago. I found it at a used record store in the dollar bin... It had never been opened.

[GargoyleWB]

It has the most brilliantly funny assassination in movie history.

Going from memory...person is on a stakeout in a car at the waterfront docks. In his car mirrors he sees a frog hopping toward him and hops under the car. Then another frog. Then another. Soon a whole colony of frogs is hopping across the pavement and under his car.

Then, in unison, they all hop at once, lifting up his car and hopping the whole car down the dock and into the river.

[billfish678]

Originally Posted by GargoyleWB

Then, in unison, they all hop at once, lifting up his car and hopping the whole car down the dock and into the river.

Makes sense to me. The French make great assassins.

[Speak to me Maddie!]

I saw it as a child - the OP's description doesn't sound familiar. The only thing I remember is Cosby's wife (ex?) pouring food all over him while he just sat there. This went on for like 40 minutes. It was almost fetishistic. Did I misremember this?

[Push You Down]

Originally Posted by Speak to me Maddie!

I saw it as a child - the OP's description doesn't sound familiar. The only thing I remember is Cosby's wife (ex?) pouring food all over him while he just sat there. This went on for like 40 minutes. It was almost fetishistic. Did I misremember this?

that's in there. i believe it is a "we're seprated but I'd like to work things out with you dinner" that the wife has made. he is late and she seethingly and silently proceeds to pour the meal all over him. it is replayed later at the end of the movie after they have made up and the food play is meant to be romantic... so yeah fetishistic.

[ElvisL1ves]

Originally Posted by mobo85

Yes he did. He also bought the rights to it to keep it off television, and accepted his Golden Raspberry Award in person.

Hmm, I thought I saw it on the cable listings recently. Not that I wanted to see it, though.

[Mahaloth]

Saw it on VHS when I was a kid.

Even as kids, we could tell it was bad.

It was boring, for one, which is one of the worst things a movie can be.

[runner pat]

Originally Posted by batsto

I liked it. And I don't think I've ever liked anything else Bill Cosby has done---I positively hated the 'Cosby Show' when I was growing up. Of course, I was in High school when I saw LP6, and I remember little about it, other than that I (and the friend who watched it with me) both laughed quite a bit at it.

Pot is not as harmless as people believe.

[Push You Down]

Originally Posted by mobo85

Yes he did. He also bought the rights to it to keep it off television, and accepted his Golden Raspberry Award in person.

...It was shown quite a bit on Comedy Central in the late 90s.

I think you are conflating the old Little Rascals urban legend (that Bill bought up all the rights to keep them from being shown because of Buckwheat) with this.

[RickJay]

It's a ridiculously inept movie.

Nor is it a cult classic.

[congodwarf]

I like it. My sister likes it.


Ghost Dad was terrible.

[photopat]

Originally Posted by congodwarf

I like it. My sister likes it.


Ghost Dad was terrible.

Ah, you too bought into the urban legend. There was no movie called "Ghost Dad." It never existed. Neither did any movie called Star Trek V or any Police Academy or Major League sequels. No sir.

[Kizarvexius]

I saw Leonard Part 6 at the cinema when it was released. I got in for free. I still want a refund. With 20+ years' interest, adjusted for inflation.