Though the members of the group despised being in this movie (produced by the same guys who did Yogi Bear, The Flintstones...and Scooby Doo !), forget the cheesiness, the some-what bad dialogue, this is a comic book movie here. And a way to see the band KISS in its heyday as a truly original rock band, complete with masks and apparel. And yes, even Gene throws its tongue out ! Shout it out loud, don't take this movie seriously. Light entertainment and rock music. This wasn't meant to be a masterpiece and this is a movie worth the curiosity. Watch it for KISS.'Nuff said !

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park The reason robots cannot replace rock-stars is because they would short-circuit from all the booze they'd have to consume.Mind you, the musical machines in this fantasy manage to make it on stage.When funding for the automatons he maintains around Magic Mountain is funnelled into a KISS concert instead, an imbalanced inventor (Anthony Zerbe) unleashes his anger on the amusement park in the form of a robotic Gene Simmons (Gene Simmons) that rampages the grounds.He later replaces the rest of the super-powered band: the optic-blasting Starchild (Paul Stanley), the teleporting Space Ace (Ace Frehley) and the spring-heeled Catman (Peter Criss), with android doubles designed to brainwash KISS fans.Produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired on NBC as a movie, this campy cult classic makes the campy character designs of KISS seem even more cartoonish.Besides, I don't think a robot could be as arrogant as Gene Simmons without imploding.Yellow Light vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

In 1978 the two most important things in my 4 year old world were Star Wars and KISS (the latter being much to my Mom's chagrin). So it's a bit of a surprise that it took me nearly 40 years to get around to watching their infamous made for TV film debut.The first 30 minutes or so play like an episode of 'The Hardy Boys' with higher production values. But once KISS show up it becomes a lactose tolerance challenging schlockfest with moments of Felliniesque surrealism thrown in for good measure. None more so than KISS' throwdown against a group of animatronic albino kung-fu cat-monkeys set to New York Groove.There's some nostalgia to be mined here, and a few hearty unintentional laughs, but little else.

'KISS meets the Phantom of the Park' is little more than a kids movie that once was part of advertising the band to an even wider audience. At the time the rock legends were quite few in including pyrotechnics, mask painting in their shows so whoever came up with the idea of a movie probably relied a bit too much on their stage appearance to make a worthwhile film.The biggest problem with watching this movie present day are all the clichés and utter silliness this movie packs. Due to the nature of being a Hanna-Barbera production there are simplified relations, overstatements, put-in-place language and just a lack of continuity that kids movies often can get away with. If you're a fan of the band it's probably something you'd want to watch once in your lifetime, and perhaps for fans of bad movies (yes, they do exist). For anyone looking at a decent movie featuring KISS, it will do little to nothing for you.