Heartbeeps (1981)

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  Yes, it's HEARTBEEPS! Starring one of my comedy heroes, the amazing Andy Kaufman, this is one of the worst movies ever committed to celluloid. Andy is Val, a valet robot, who meets and falls in love with Acqua (Bernadette Peters) when they both go back to the factory for repairs. They steal a van and escape, pursued by Crimebuster, a sort of fat Dalek in a tank who is the local law enforcing robot. They also find time to produce a 'child' named Phil (allegedly Grateful Dead icon JERRY GARCIA...but all he does is bleep) out of spare parts, and fall in with a stand up comedy robot (who spends the entire movie sitting down!) named Catskil. This unfortunate fellow tells the lamest jokes you ever heard, the one about the man who thinks he's a fridge being typical of his repertoire. However, it turns out that he is conserving energy by selecting 'low power joke mode', and he finally redeems himself with a blinding mother-in-law crack at 1:04:48 into the film. This tale has an exceptional cast including Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel from SPINAL TAP) and Kathleen Freeman (The Penguin nun in THE BLUES BROTHERS). Also, the soundtrack was composed by John Williams...yes, the STAR WARS guy! Despite this,I'm warning you...it's  AWFUL!!! In fact, it did such dismal business on release that Kaufman himself apologised to his fans and offered to refund their ticket money during an appearance on the David Letterman show. Letterman's advice to Andy was to make sure he had change of $20! I loved every minute of it...but then I'm just a dumb animal...More dross among the diodes from Sneaky Elephant SOON!