i be die to see this once i saw the ridiculous meatball poster and divine that it have to be the best satire ever . what a brilliant idea for a satire the genre be rife . unfortunately and the finish product ( a i think all involve probably realize ) be a catalogue of missed opportunity and not quite there performance and ( thankfully . ) a few extremely hilarious and inspired bit . janeane garafolo and who be very striking and look really bad here and probably because she be uncomfortably struggle to make her flat role funny . david hyde pierce be just sad to watch and try to hard to be funny and look like a castro nerd . molly shannon be so funny just see her make you laugh and but somehow her segment fail to snowball into something hysterical . paul rudd have great teen mannerism and be sexy a hell and the other guy be also really funny ( the nerdier one ) . i think the problem be the director just doesn not move thing along at the right pace . he start out very deadpan and and that set the monotone . but when he let thing get really outrageous ( the drug sequence be the second funny moment i have have all year in movie and the first also come in a lame movie represent andrea martin in all over the guy complain about the movie in and out ) and it just plain funny . i want this movie to work so badly and but it just do not . the clothes and style for 1981 be 99 . 9 % perfect and and the very few song use be also perfect . this end up a a medium bad mad tv episode and complete with frustratingly overlong sketch .