Q

Q is for Quirky...as in Michael Moriarty's performance. The impression I got before going in was that the winged beast would be the strangest thing in this movie. Instead, it's Moriarty. I shouldn't stop there. David Carradine is odd, too. In fact, most everything here is off a step. The dialogue is goofy and the conversations between characters is poorly timed or something. It's almost like they were ad-libbing much of the time. The stop motion animation is pretty weak, but it's good enough to make the final battle between Q and the police at the top of the Chrysler Building a lot of fun. It ultimately makes the movie worth watching. There are a lot of nice, early-'80s aerial shots of New York City and it makes me wonder how much of it that director Larry Cohen was responsible for. This is the guy who directed classics like "It's Alive" and "The Stuff". There were many times that "Q" gave me the same feeling I get when watching old episodes of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker".

Corny but a fair film