Leonard Part 6

Plot synopsis:
Bill Cosby plays Leonard Parker, a CIA spy-turned-restaurateur. According to the opening sequence of the movie, the title refers to the idea that this film is actually the sixth installment of a series of films featuring the adventures of Leonard, as parts one through five were locked up in the interests of world security. In actuality, there are no movies preceding this one.
The theatrical release poster points out that Leonard Parker is, at the time of his reluctant return to action, coping with domestic issues:
"His daughter is engaged to a man old enough to be his father.
His estranged wife behaves like she is younger than their daughter.
And now his government has asked him to save the world. Again."
The movie starts with Parker being called out of retirement by his CIA director Snyderburn (Baker) to save the world from evil vegetarian Medusa Johnson (Foster), who brainwashes animals to kill people. The film ends with Leonard infiltrating Johnson's headquarters (an "International Tuna" factory), fending off the vegetarians with magic meat he received from a Gypsy, freeing the captive animals, and flooding the base using Alka-Seltzer. He escapes by riding an ostrich across the roof; the unlikely steed flies him to the ground.

Tags: cult

Review:
The relationship between Cosby - a master spy living in an enormous house - and his unhappy wife (who lives in the enormous house next door, which is supposed to be a funny circumstance) took time to develop.
But I thought it's gotta get better, Bill Cosby  wouldn't allow this garbage to be shown to millions of kids like me as "entertainment" unless there was something funny in it.
Bill Cosby must have lost some kind of bet with Satan to end up making a film as mind-meltingly dreadful as "Leonard Part 6".
There are bad movies like the ones Ed wood used to make and there are bad movies like "Leonard part 6".Now the difference between these two groups is, that when you watch Ed Wood movies you can laugh at the fact how serious he was.
But with this supposed to be comedy you are just dazed at the fact how shamelessly this movie has been made relying only on the 80's comedy icon Bill Cosby.I can see how the script of this agent parody might have looked funny, with all the James Bond jokes it has, but somewhere in the making everyone just forgot to do their jobs properly, thus ending up with this pile of totally unfunny crap.
As stated nothing works, special effects are bad and they probably looked outdated the year this movie came out.
This is the type of film that has NOTHING redeeming about it, and even thinking about it for a minute longer than its running time is a real waste of effort.
Just look at the user reviews for "Hudson Hawk" or "Ishtar" and you'll see titles like "Not As Bad As They Say," "Under-Rated Classic," and the offensive "I LOVE This Movie."Grow up!
(Schwarzenegger would later fail at this with the nauseating "Last Action Hero") What we're left with is a mess of a movie and Cosby- one of the all-time great comedians- can't even get one genuine laugh out of the deal.
At the time of the film's release Cosby himself went on TV and asked people NOT to see the movie because it was so bad.
This movie fails on every level possible:  as a spy movie, as a parody of a spy movie, as a Cosby feature film, as a piece of entertainment.
The Movie is About Leonard Parker (Bill Cosby) who is a retried Secret Agent who owns a Restaurant.
There are also Product Placement in this movie Like the Coke Scene where Leonard is talking to this old guy that his daughter is going to Marry him & he wants to talk to him but he tells his daughter he wants sandwich & a bottle of Coke.
I didn't know much about this movie until I watched the Siskel & Ebert Worst of 1987 Video, Emer Prevost's Review & I Hate Everything's Review.
Bill Cosby plays a secret agent brought out of retirement to save the world from an evil villainess who plans to take over by unleashing trained animals of almost every type, including fish and lobsters.From the minute this movie started, you could tell this would be the worst movie you've ever seen.
There is a good 20 minutes of this film wasted on Cosby getting ready for a date, exercising, showing in Perrier and picking out ties in anticipation for the date, which had absolutely nothing to do with the plot and didn't even work as humor.
As a comedy, as a spy movie, as an action flick, as a parody of all of the above, it fails miserably.At least JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY could squeeze out a couple of feeble laughs.LEONARD PART 6 has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.Rating: 0 out of *****.
But other times, especially when the film is a comedy, the film can be so bad it is painful to watch.
This film not only contains horrible performances by Bill Cosby and nearly everyone else in the cast, but also an plot so mind-numbingly bad the only reason you might continue to watch is for the same reason you would stare at a train wreck:  It's so horrific you can't take your eyes off of it..
Having no clue what it was, only seeing Bill Cosby show up, and starte watching halfway through.At the end of the movie, I found myself asking, 'What the holy hell was that piece of trash?' I like Bill Cosby as a comedian, but this was just trash.
Well, it turns out that they didn't even use her voice in the scenes; they dubbed her dialog and her screaming.Apart from getting to see her in the movie, there was nothing at all that would make this a worthwhile film to ever watch again.
Leonard Part 6 crosses that line, gets on an air plane and flies towards the horizon until it runs out of fuel.To sum up this movie: Leonard is a secret agent who, because of a series of personal life events, ends up taking on a mission from the CIA (or some organization like that).
He battles an evil woman who "controls" animals and plans to take over the world.If you go into this movie expecting a cinematic masterpiece, you are going to be disappointed.
I knew it was bad movie even then, and I thought Cosby's career was doomed.
No all-time worst movie list is complete without this film.
There's absolutely nothing to like about it and no reason to watch it unless you want to see how NOT to make a film.
It's debatable whether this movie or Ghost Dad is Cosby's worst film.
If you really want to watch a serious movie with meaning and a complex, important plot, it might be a good idea to aviod movies with Bill Cosby.
This is a stupid, but very enjoyable spy-spoof that is great to watch when you want to laugh at something that is just ridiculous.
While not a great movie (although I love it!) it is actually a lot of fun to watch.
I own a copy of Howard the Duck so that my kids can get a few cheap laughs.No purple dinosaur for my kids...just a large talking duck...and Bill Cosby in a movie where raw meat is a weapon!.
OK OK,everyone knows even Bill Cosby himself thinks this movie sucked out hard,but come on,you can even see Bills disdain for the film in his acting and thats what makes this movie score at least some points,because Bill Cosby is at his funniest when hes pretending to be or is not happy about something.He wields sarcasm like an axe in this film and treats the particularly bad material with the contempt it deserves,which makes it slightly more than your average Bargain bin Fodder.And if your completely honest some of the ideas in the film would be funny if it was made better or perhaps had a bigger budget.Well worth picking up though if you happen to see it in a 2 for £1 bucket in your local video store.3/10.
It's a good movie to watch if you're in a bad mood, and need a few laughs to perk you up..
Everyone has hated it since it was first released, won the Razzie for Worst Picture, but to tell you the truth, I really don't see why.This movie, like the recent Austin Powers films, is stupid, pointless, and over-the-top, but it's on purpose, and you have to realize this.
If you don't think that's funny, you won't like the rest of the movie at all.
With great movies like this one to his credit, he should have quit the Cosby Show a long time ago to pursue a full-time film career.
If you can find this title anywhere (I think Cosby might have personally burned every last tape.), I highly recommend renting it and watching it with friends while drinking.
The pure stupidity and absurdity of this movie, combined with the fact that it is actually Bill Cosby doing all of these ridiculous things, will have you and your friends in stitches.
By far one of the best terrible movie you could ever enjoy watching, so if you get a kick out of this kind of thing, then absolutely watch this film..
Not since Ghost Dad have I seen such a bad film by Bill Cosby.
Seems like every movie Bill Cosby stars in fails, and this one is no exception.
From practicing turning the lights on at the same time in meetings, to frogs jumping cars into the river, to horny trout, to questionable plays, to bad eating habits, you'll love this movie.
This movie has some very funny moments, and is worth watching with the family.
This a wrong and unfunny parody of secret agent films with Bill Cosby playing Leonard, an retired CIA agent that must leave his problems behind when killer animals trained by a criminal mastermind (Gloria Foster, the future Oracle from "Matrix") start to kill all CIA agents.
And the absurd goes on and on to the point of Cosby's escaping from a certain death by flying on a ostrich (lousy scene, awfully made).I only watched this thing because the review made by Siskel & Ebert, one of the funniest videos on the internet and their funniest review either, was so funny that I needed to see with my own eyes if that really was the worst film of 1987.
My advice is go watch their review instead of this film because the review is hilarious, one of those rare times when sarcasm is used with a beautiful efficiency when Ebert quotes about the door scene saying this: "And you know what he fires at it?
How highly, highly humorous!" It always cracks me up!The film gets so ridiculous with its situations trying to be funny but in the end it turns out to be a bad film.
He seemed to have enjoyed his part while making (that's what I think, maybe he hated to be in the film), seems so natural and he's funny in some scenes, he made the film enjoyable (most memorable scenes are when he's training with Leonard, who is about to meet his wife after seven years separated; and their little jump downstairs).
They taken from us the wrong and worst kind of laughters, the ones when you realize something ridiculous and bad is in front of you which is not the same kind of laughter a comedy should demand from us, the one when something is really funny, and can makes us happy.
Parodies spy movies, a CIA operative has to save the world from an evil vegetarian who brainwashes animals to kill people..
But not a terrible one either (though my opinion is in the minority)  Just a movie that's not particularly good at anything.I really liked the frogs jumping the car over the cliff (I think it was a cliff) though..
I watched this movie knowing that Bill Cosby was doing something he knew would be ridiculous.
Bill Cosby IS Leonard Parker.And this movie has all that you need for a terrific film - action, comedy, fancy bad awards - what more could you possibly need?
Of course, while many people think of "Leonard Part 6" as bad, I, as well as many of my friends, think of this movie as terrific!
Oh, and while watching this movie, don't forget to look out for Joe Don Baker, which most "Mystery Science Theater 3000" fans will remember from what I think is one of his greatest films he's ever been in, "Mitchell!" "Leonard Part 6" is an awesome piece of cinema, brought to you by the Jell-O man, Bill Cosby!.
Leonard Part 6 (1987)1/2 (out of 4)Bill Cosby co-wrote, produced and stars in this disaster that he eventually would be kind enough to tell people to avoid before its release.
LEONARD PART 6 really is a complete disaster but I'm going to at least give it credit for attempting to do just about everything you could think of in a bad movie.
He actually succeeds at this because I personally can't think of another movie like this one but just because you're different or original doesn't mean your good.
I guess the movie is worth watching at least once so you can say you've seen it and you might even get into a debate about which sequence or scene is the worst.
Throughout the movie LEONARD PART 6, I just kept waiting and waiting...waiting for that one joke that made it worth watching this film.
The "50 Worst Movies" book lists its worst spy spoof as the Matt Helm film THE AMBUSHERS as the worst of this, but the book came out in 1978.
that portion of the movie is really good, and displays classic Cosby humor.
Leonard Part 6 is one of those movies that if you see that it is on TV you will watch it, no matter what else is on.
A lot of people don't seem to know the comic genius Cosby threw in this '87 film.
When his best friend from the CIA Snyderburn (Joe Don Baker)calls for him, Leonard must return back to action to save the world from a mad vegetarian witch named Medusa (Gloria Foster) and her armies of killer animals and vegetarians with the help of unusual things such as sparkling magical meat, alka-seltzers, armpit-missiles, clippers and more.One of the most god-awful movies of all time and pure cinematic toxic waste this movie is!
I'm glad Cosby disowned this steaming heap of dung of a movie and i remembered when i was 6 years old when it hit video i rented it and thought it was dumb despite i do have a memory of the gay eyebrow-less baddie eating that magic explosive hot-dog that caused his head to blow up into crushed cheetos then i re-watched this movie again 7 years ago and it sure stinks like hell.Despite Elmer Bernstein's good score, it cannot save this stinker..
Three Razzies make people automatically think that the movie sucks, and thus they vote accordingly.I've seen the film a couple of times, and in my opinion Leonard 6 is not so bad.
In conclusion, I am not sure about Leonard Part 6 being the worst film of all time, but I couldn't watch it without cringing- sorry I don't recommend it.
For the most part I have to say that the film is as bad as most people say it is.
This is usually a good thing, but not in the case of this movie as most of the jokes are terrible with a few exceptions that my disturbed mind found funny and the plot is super terrible revolving around a super agent trying to take on a vegetarian bent on ruling the world or something to that extent it has been a long time since I saw this movie and I did not exactly watch it multiple times as I am sure most people who have seen this film have not.
So if you want to see a good spy spoof watch any of the Austin Powers movies or the ones with James Coborne where he plays the spy named Flynn or Flint I can not remember which.
Retired Super Spy Leonard Parker (Bill Cosby) comes out of retirement to save the world from a vegetarian madwoman named Medusa.
The movie is so bad that Bill Cosby himself told audiences not to see it.
LEONARD PART 6 is one of those titles that spring to mind whenever one wants a definitive example of a bad movie.
Cosby is daft as the secret agent with stupid abilities and skills, and Foster is rather ridiculous as the power-hungry herbivorous bitch, the problem is not just that the film is full of ridiculous moments that are apparently meant to make you laugh, like infiltrating a building while dancing ballet, and escaping an exploding building on an ostrich, the story both ludicrous and boring James Bond, it's just an unfunny and unwatchable comedy.
But the film is so bad that you can't help but laugh at what ends up on screen.
It's up to Leonard to save the world, as only he can battle her Vegetarians and killer animals.It's a bad film by all means, it makes no sense to have three of the stand out scenes of this movie right at the beginning, but they do, and if you really lower your expectations, you will find some strange kitsch gem in this mess.It's not funny, and Cosby is in almost every scene, it's a vanity project for him, someone who was the most famous face on US TV at the time, and his ego told him he could do the same in movie, albeit with a really strange title you won't get unless you see the film, and killer frogs and lobsters.But there is something about this movie, that would make me want to watch it again.
I have been hearing about this film for years, mostly because Bill Cosby himself appeared on talk shows telling people not to see it.
It's obvious that Bill Cosby wanted people to forget his movie career.
Anyway, this movie has such a stupid premise it literally feels like something a five year old would come up with.
and whoever thinks this movie was a stinker should watch it again, bill cosby throws MEAT at VEGATARIANS and it DEFEATS them.
I, for one, could see through all of the bad editing and production problems in this movie and found that Bill Cosby(who wrote the story, initially) had a great idea for a movie that was put in the wrong hands for production.
I, for one, could see through all of the bad editing and production problems in this movie and found that Bill Cosby(who wrote the story, initially) had a great idea for a movie that was put in the wrong hands for production.
I watched the movie believing it can't be as bad as reported, but it fact its much worse.
This movie is so bad that it's great!.