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- Linda Gross wrote that the film "feeds off television and mocks all that is middle-aged and middle-American. Its own methods are sophomoric and tacky. Rated R, it's full of bad taste, but it doesn't deliver its promised raunchiness."
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video. Original members of TV's "Saturday Night Live" appear in this bizarre collection of dark-humored sketches. Rent Mr. Mike's Mondo Video on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime...
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video is a 1979 American Mondo-Mockumentary film conceived and directed by Saturday Night Live writer/featured player Michael O'Donoghue. It is a spoof of the controversial 1962 documentary Mondo Cane, showing people doing weird stunts (the logo for Mr. Mike's Mondo Video copies the original Mondo Cane logo). [1]
Nov 29, 2023 · Mondo cinema has faced criticism for its racism, particularly in its early days. The films often portray indigenous people as primitive and savage, while also objectifying women. Although some...
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Mondo Video is far from the most refined or successful expression of O'Donoghue's darkly antic vision, but its spray of seething, occasionally fetishistic buckshot is unmistakably in its...
Jan 21, 2009 · Watching Mr. Mike's Mondo Video today, it's hard to believe NBC ever green-lit it as a late-night special. It's much easier to believe what happened next— Video so thoroughly horrified the...
Jan 7, 2009 · Mr. Mike's Mondo Video claws out a place in my Top 100 (50? 10?) of cult movies - at least to make up for that poor guy in Baltimore. And maybe there was a reason O'Donoghue's effort - a parody of 'shocking reality' movies like Mondo Cane - got the shaft from NBC.