Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

coolmoan-323-671275 This came out the same year as "Bullets Over Broadway", and comparisons might be made, but I enjoy this film on as many levels as that other highly-lauded film. It's manic and silly and implausible, and is the perfect film to chuckle at all the insanity going on.Critics need to lighten up, seriously. Harmless fun, with an impressive cast. Brian Benben is delightful and lovable and his career should have blossomed after this. His energy and self-effacing humor is endearing, and he handles it all with genuine sincerity.Naysayers, I don't care what you think. This is one of my favorite guilty pleasures. I will continue to watch it when I need an attitude adjustment.

edwagreen The only thing that this inane film has going for it is its pacing. It is done lively and quiet fast and given the nature and how bad the film is, it's appropriate to do it that quickly.This is a definite take-off on the radio period in America.While a radio show goes on, the best part of the action seems to be on the backstage, where a series of murders are taking place, one after the other.Suspicion immediately falls on one of the writers who is on the verge of breaking up with his wife, the show's producer.The beginning showed progress with the problems of script writing presented. With the murders, the film falters quickly and becomes one of amateurish slapstick and all other mayhem and nonsense.The comedy lines are silly. One example is: Woman to man: "Don't you see the star on my dressing room?" His response was: "Does that mean you're Jewish?" Case closed.

elis_jones This movie is such a loving recreation of a bygone era that if you let yourself go with the flow - and with the body count - it's hard not to find pleasure in it. The music is lovingly recreated - with even a nod to Spike Jones and his City Slickers; the dialogue is fast and furious, with lessons learnt not only from the Marx Brothers but also from other screwball comedies of the 1930s. The plot - well, the best thing about the plot is the way in which it thickens nicely as each corpse is added!And there is the King Kong pastiche - complete with biplane circling the top of the skyscraper. Though in this case it is not Beauty which kills the Beast, and the villain's fall is not as spectacular as that of the mighty Kong, though I liked the way that ant-like figures could be seen scurrying to the site of the impact far below. The all-pervading chaos reminded me of HELLZAPOPPIN' - and it would make a nice double-feature with George Clooney's GOODNIGHT AND GOOD LUCK!

Lee Eisenberg A few years before "The Phantom Menace", George Lucas was involved in the goofy "Radioland Murders", about a series of killings at a radio station in 1939 Chicago. In a way, the whole movie seems like an excuse for a bunch of gags (namely the scene where the bellboy accidentally walks into the dressing room), but I couldn't help but admire it. Even people who never lived through the '30s are likely to feel nostalgia for that era (uh, can one be nostalgic for the Depression?). Overall, this movie may have no cinematic and/or artistic value whatsoever, but it's just fun to watch. Brian Benben and Mary Stuart Masterson play the lead roles (and George Lucas said that they're the parents of Richard Dreyfuss's character in "American Graffiti"). George Burns, in his final film role, appears as a radio personality. Also starring Ned Beatty, Michael Lerner, Michael McKean, Jeffrey Tambor, Stephen Tobolowsky, Christopher Lloyd, Larry Miller, Anita Morris, and Rosemary Clooney. A fairly neat movie.Oh, and as the movie makes clear: nothing's ever going to overtake radio as the dominant medium.