My Big Fat Movie Review
IT'S ATOMIC!
It would be a major oversight if a blog called The
Atomic Cheese Melt didn't do a review of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. This is one of my favorite movies. I caught this back in the 90's on TNT's 100% Weird which played after MonsterVision's two films. 100% Weird would play some of the strangest B-movies I've ever seen and Dr. T. absolutely fits the bill. The premise of the film is that young Bart's nemesis Dr T., his piano teacher, has a diabolical plan to force 500 boys to practice at his colossal piano 24/7 365 days a year. At the same time Dr. T. is trying to seduce Bart's June-Cleaverish mother. The only person Bart can trust is his friend August, a lowly plumber, who he hopes will save his mother and help him rescue the other boys from Dr. T.'s mad plan. The setting for the movie is set mostly in a bizarre, almost nightmarish, Dr. Seuss style alternate reality. The evil Dr. T. is great, everything a strange 50's B-movie villain should be. All the acting in the movies is quiet good actually, usually not the case in B-movies. If you're a fan of Dr. Seuss or strange B-movies then Dr. T. is the film for you. Great wonderful weirdness.