{"id":34685,"date":"2017-04-10T01:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T05:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=34685"},"modified":"2021-03-06T02:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T07:01:30","slug":"never-too-young-to-die-1986-blu-ray-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/never-too-young-to-die-1986-blu-ray-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Too Young to Die (1986) [Blu-Ray\/DVD]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you\u2019ve ever never seen \u201cNever Too You to Die,\u201d you\u2019re not prepared to comprehend what entirely unfolds. The narrative takes all kinds of wild directions from a martial arts film, a science fiction movie, a terrorist movie, and hell, even a musical. Think \u201cDie Hard\u201d and \u201cEscape from New York\u201d mixed with \u201cGymkata,\u201d and you\u2019re almost there. Except there\u2019s Gene Simmons going whole hog as a hermaphroditic\/transsexual terrorist!<\/p>\n

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Set in a somewhat near future, a scientist named Stargrove who has invented a computer that can be used as a weapon. When he\u2019s murdered by gang member Velvet Von Ragnar and his thugs, his long lost son and college student Lance is recruited by secret agent Danja Deering. He\u2019s recruited to infiltrate Ragnar\u2019s base but when he catches on, it becomes a race against time to stop Ragnar before he holds the world hostage by poisoning the water supply.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever Too Young to Die\u201d wears its insanity on its sleeve, and I kind of adore it for that very fact. Every element in the film seems to try to be topping itself, allowing for an experience that\u2019s just so bad it\u2019s good. Gene Simmons, for one, doesn\u2019t just play a transsexual, but a hermaphroditic transsexual who gets off on performing, and seducing every man that walks in to her dressing room. Simmons almost seems to have taken some pages from Tim Curry, especially in his entrance and how he seemingly dives in to everything from a corset, to a dress.<\/p>\n

Simmons has great sense of timing in the way he punctuates every bit of dialogue and even carries some scenes. Director Gill Bettman opens the door to so much more insanity (there\u2019s an odd cameo from Robert Englund who by 1986 was already known as Freddy Krueger) including Simmons apparently ad libbing, and building on the far fetched romance between Vanity and John Stamos. Even Stamos in his pre-\u201cFull House\u201d days is so much of a bland hero that it\u2019s tough to believe he\u2019d seduce someone like Vanity. They\u2019re even paired up as action heroes; it ends up being more laughable than exciting.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s especially true during a torture sequence where Lance suddenly musters up the will to become a martial arts master after building the power from a picture of his family. \u201cNever Too Young to Die\u201d is a great, trashy midnight movie filled with laugh out loud performances, and one hell of a show stealer from Gene Simmons.<\/p>\n

Along with a DVD Copy, there\u2019s the original TV spot for Too Young to Die<\/em>, and an audio commentary with pop culture historian Russell Dyball, who offers an excellent analysis of Never Too Young to Die<\/em> and discusses the period when the film was completed. Finally, there\u2019s a vintage standard-definition VHS presentation of Never Too Young to Die!
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