Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

bkoganbing The Phynix in the movie is a new rock and roll group created by the SSA (CIA) for the purpose of penetrating Communist Albania with the universal language of rock and roll. As for the movie itself, The Phynx is one ghastly comedy which features a whole bunch of folks from the big and small screen some playing themselves and some playing small supporting roles.A great many of our celebrities of the past have been kidnapped and are being held by the Albanian government in a nation starved for entertainment. So it is reasoned that if we manufacture a new rock and roll group, but have them trained as James Bond type spies as well as musicians, these people can crack security in Albania and rescue the American pop culture heritage.In charge of the operation is Michael Kellin with his brain dead assistant Lou Antonio as the handler and Brian Epstein for the Phynx. The four guys who play The Phynx have never been heard from since, two of them have no other screen credit.As for all of yesterdays stars, some of them no doubt needed paycheck, but they all embarrassed themselves mightily. A lot of them looked they wanted to be just about anywhere but on the set of The Phynx.For nostalgia lovers only and you might be offended.

jrnolan I finally bought a copy of this film on DVD from an online seller, and it is truly dreadful. It has a running time of 81 minutes but it felt like 4 hours. I only bought it to see the many cameo appearances of stars young and old, but some of them are so brief that you have to watch every second of the film to catch them. Richard Pryor introduces himself and then he's gone! The best part of the film is at the end when Pat O'Brien is reunited with former Dead End Kids Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall. Leo looks positively ancient, even though he was only 51 at the time. He died of liver failure shortly after shooting his scenes. His heavy drinking really took its toll. The writing on this film is horrendous, and the acting is worse than any Ed Wood film. I completely agree with Warner Brothers' decision to shelve this film and never release it, even though they probably spent a good deal of money to make it. It's an embarrassment and painful to watch. I hope to someday see Jerry Lewis' never-released "The Day the Clown Cried," another legendary bad film, so I can compare it to "The Phynx."

dbborroughs Odds are you have never seen The Phynx and for good reason. This is the deformed beast of a child that Hollywood wants to keep locked up in the attic. Its the hell-spawn of the youth movement and the old embalmed generation coming together to make ... something.The basic plot concerns the SSA (Super Secret Agency) attempting to rescue the icons of American culture that have been kidnapped and brought to Albania. Who are the great icons? George Jessel, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Bergan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Joe Louis, Col. Sanders, Xavier Cugat and probably a dozen others (all I can say is I hope they were paid a lot). SSA decides that the best way to get them out is top form a rock band (think Monkees and Beatles singing songs by Lieber and Stoller) and have them invited into the country. They then kidnap Two white guys an Indian and a black guy and force them to be spies and a rock group thus allowing for some surreal bits as other stars show up to train the band (Richard Pryor, Dick Clark, James Brown among others).My jaw dropped and stayed down for a good portion of the films running time.I'm not sure how to rate this film. Its occasionally funny, has some good songs and proves that not everyone needs drugs to have their brain smashed like an egg.This is a clear warning about who and who should not be mating. Clearly its a movie that wants to appeal to the youth market while at the same time doing everything it can to attack and make fun of the same market. Its as if your stuffed shirt of an uncle made your choices in current popular culture, clearly you wouldn't want to see his choices. At the same time the film is clearly about youth and what was then current culture so it wouldn't appeal to the old folks. Its a movie that will appeal to no one.Actually not no one, bad movie lovers, fans of surrealism, those who must see every movie made by their favorite star, masochists, mental patients and those who want a unique (but not necessarily good) viewing experience will want to check the film out.I've given it a 5 out of 10 because there is some good and some bad mixed in with the "I don't believe this" material so its the fairest rating I could come up with. Your reaction will be your own and with a movie like this I don't even want to guess what that is going to be. Take this review as either and invitation or a warning, its your choice.

16mmfilms.com Where else can you find Col. Sanders and James Brown in the same film!? I screen this gem in my home theatre at least once every few months for unsuspecting guests. I am constantly asked, "where did you find this"? "Why has this not been shown on TV"? Although The Phynx is silly at times, most viewers enjoy seeing vintage Hollywood stars in glorious Technicolor. (Is the the only color footage of Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall)?