Rating: Empty

 

Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad and Jim Belushi

 

Director: Brian Levant

 

Writer: Randy Kornfield

 

Producers: Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan

 

Music by: David Newman

 

Rated: PG for action violence, mild language and some thematic elements

 

Release Date: 11/22/96

 

Favorite Character: Myron Larabee

 

Tagline: Two Dads, One Toy, No Prisoners.

 

Quote: “IT’S TURBO TIME!”- Turbo Man

 

Fun Facts: In March 2001, a U.S. District Court jury in Birmingham, Michigan, ruled that 20th Century Fox stole the script idea, “Jingle All the Way”, from Detroit High School biology teacher, Brian Webster. The studio was ordered to pay $19 million, later reduced to $1.5 million. Webster submitted the script, then named “Could This Be Christmas?”, to the studio in 1994 and never received payment or credit despite the film making $183 million. Fox appealed and the verdict was reversed, since Webster’s script was submitted after the studio had already purchased a treatment (summary/outline) of what would become the film’s script.

 

You can actually buy Turbo Man action figures on eBay (at a high price).

 

When Howard and Myron burst into the radio station, the D.J. is taking a call for the Eight Reindeer name contest. The incorrect names the contestant gives are: “Randy, Tito, and Jermaine”. These are the names of three of Michael Jackson‘s brothers.

 

The film’s release coincided with the Tickle Me Elmo craze, in which high demand for the doll during the 1996 Christmas season lead to store mobbing similar to that depicted for Turbo-Man.

 

Summary: A workaholic father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas, but they have been sold out in stores and he’s competing with a crazy mailman for one.

 

The Review: This is what Christmas is about? Too commercializing. The special effects aren’t that great. Not to mention the demon team is a Power Rangers rip off. But hey it’s a comedy, not an action film.