Fantastic!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The first time I had the opportunity to see this goofy assed film was some years back,on an all night cult films program called 'Night Flight', that was carried by the USA Network. The plot seemed to be something of a Science Fiction satire about an alien invasion of the Earth by a character called 'The Lightning Bug',who planned on destroying Earth with Rock & Roll, and later drugs. Okay...a premise for a cheap.low budget cheese ball of a late night film, I thought. What really got me was the fact that it was (mostly)made up of clips from various movie serials of the late 1930's, to the early 1950's,with new overdubbed dialog (which also included some new footage,also shot in black & white). What makes this film even better is that the script is written by two ex-Firesign Theater members (Phil Proctor & Peter Bergman,who also appear in the film). This seems to be the kind of film that would have benefited from being screened at cinemas that specialized in midnight movies (especially with an audience that is baked to the nines). I'm not 100% sure if this has been released on DVD as of yet, but maybe you can dredge up a used VHS video copy either at a used video outlet (if you can still find one that's still in business---curse you,Netflix!),or maybe even on E-Bay. Happy hunting. Rated PG by the MPAA, this film contains some rude language,drug humour & mature subject matter

I grabbed the DVD as soon as it was released. Until then, I only had a well worn VHS copy of an old Night Flight broadcast, so the disc was a welcomed addition to my library. There are a few extras on the disk, one of which is an interesting interview with Commando Cody (George Wallace), who interviewer Proctor insists on calling "Commander".Proctor and Bergman also discuss their making of JMF. One disappointment was Bergman's completely unnecessary comments about the war in Afghanistan and the war on drugs. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a guy who has made a living with his counterculture humor would have such a reflex attitude toward "the establishment", but I wish he had kept his ill conceived beliefs to himself. Funny and creative he is. Intelligent and astute he is not. To make matters worse, the entirety of the Proctor/Bergman dialog is plagued by oft-occurring audio dropouts (the rest of the disk is OK).That said, it's still well worth buying. J-Men Forever is a hilarious movie and is one of my favorites.

This is insanely, oxygen-depleting laughter-inducing FUNNY stuff. Using public-domain serial footage and dubbing it into a faux noir story with occasional new B&W material, this is laugh-out-loud, fall over funny. Loads of cliches stand on their heads and dance, and the title isn't explained until the v-e-r-y last moment. Help destroy wimpy music - catch this however you can!

I know `J-Men Forever' was at one time available on video back in the mid-80's because I remember seeing it for rent in a video store. (The video store has long since gone out of business.)The movie is a hoot. It is one of my fond memories of my early 30's. Sadly, now that the hipsters of the '70's have turned into their parents, a movie like `J-Men Forever' is probably now lost forever. You can bet your bottom dollar you won't see it on the USA cable network, or any other conglomerate-owned media outlet. Not that it's the least bit risqué, but it sends out the `wrong message' in our now more conservative times, if you know what I mean. It is all really unfortunate.