Attack of the Killer Tomateos (1978)

This low budget send up of monster movies comes across as a real labor of love. 'Attack of the Killer Tomateos' surprised me in how well paced and consistently funny it is, it really anticipates 'Airplane', in fact it's 'Airplane' before 'Airplane'. I even enjoyed its few random musical numbers. This movie became a kind of zietgiest in-joke and spawned several sequels as well as an early 90's Saturday morning cartoon series that I think I've seen every episode of. I've watched Hitchcock and Kubrick movies this week, and somehow this is the best movie I've seen since Memorial Day. **1/2