Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Lack of good storyline.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

*Mr. B Natural SPOILERS* A tale of psychedelic terror erupts when a transgender fairy who seems to be downing entire BOTTLES of Prozac, DAILY, because she has the most insufferably perky disposition ever and speaks at such a high tone I bet cats and dogs were running away from her howling in pain, looking female but calling him/herself Mr. B Natural magically appears in a young kid, Buzz's room, scaring him into buying an instrument and learning how to use it by playing many of them and dancing to her own music like a retard because playing in the school band makes you 'cool'. Yeah, in an alternate universe, maybe.This is a truly, absolutely, completely, utterly terrible short, aptly defined the 'Manos, The Hands Of Fate' of shorts, which it actually is. I wonder if Conn Enterprises realized at the time which EVIL had they unleashed on the world...But MST3K, as usual, has saved us by diluting the horribleness of this psychotic trans gendered transvestite (a woman who thinks she's a man - way before Brandon Teena - Teena Brandon in Boys Don't Cry - eating Prozac for breakfast and terrorizing young men: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!) in what amounts to one of the funniest MSTs of a short.As for the main character: 'Shame on you, Mr B. Natural, have you got no sense of decency??' Mr B. Natural: 1/10 (but deserves -100000000000000000000000000000000000000000/10).

This 20 minute short tries to show you the beauty of music and how you can express feelings with various instruments. That sounds like a nice premise, but the direction and characters disfigured the plot to the point of being unrecognizable. Mr. B Natural is as inane of a name as the character is. This person is a woman, but she's called a 'mister'. Is she a transvette then? Nobody will know what influenced the creation of this name. The story is about a nerdy college boy who wants to be accepted by his friends, and apparently takes a lot of drugs because when at home one day he hallucinates that he is talking to a woman dressed in a peter-pan esque outfit who is obsessed with all kinds of music. She/he is the most mentally disfunctional freak I've ever seen, prancing around like a moron in the most randomly generated dance routines. Her/his voice is also high pitched, to the point where Joel and the bots cringe when they see her in the screen. I think the director tried to make her seem like a perky, happy person who motivates the kid, but it is horribly overdone and turns her/him into a nightmare which can only exist as a bad hallucination. Imagine a woman whose eyes are wide open all the time, who always has a grin that stretches across her face and talks in a screechy voice about happy things, while dancing around maniacally. There you go.SPOILERS up ahead, tho you can predict the whole movie by just reading the summaryB natural 'motivates' Buzz, the kid, to take up a musical hobby and after a few days of mistake-free practice, he turns into an expert in the trumpet but the tunes he plays sound stupid anyway (as joel and the bots would agree). As you would expect there is terrible acting and so on. Mr. B Natural is very painful to watch and would be more effective as a device to use in threats and torture. However, watch this with MST3K and I guarantee it will turn this short from musical-gone-wrong into excellent comedy. To quote tom servo during one of the dancing scenes, "See Buzz? its really fun to be psychotic!"

Conn instruments probably wanted to distance itself from this trash so bad after it was released. Why they didn't title this Miss B Natural is beyond me. Betty Luster, playing a man(?) takes the school loser Buzz and turns him into a hepcat by having him play the trumpet. What really shoots this down are three things: 1. A severe lack of reality, especially from Mr. B, 2. Mr. B's obscene cheerfulness, and 3. bad acting from Buzz and several other people. Avoid this one unless you're watching the MST3K version. Joel and the bots skewer this one in one of their best performances on a short.

This is without a doubt the single most frightening piece of film, short or otherwise, that I have ever seen! What about Blair Witch, you say? Or Scream? Or Texas Chainsaw Massacre? They have *nothing* on the all-engulfing terror that festers at the very heart of this thankfully brief atrocity of film.I gave it a two. (well, Mr. B was kinda cute, after all...)