Welcome to the new profile
We're still working on updating some profile features. To see the badges, ratings breakdowns, and polls for this profile, please go to the previous version.
Reviews6
dermotglennon-96512's rating
You really need to watch right to the end, when he says "I thought you were dead" and she says... well, she says a really unintentionally funny punchline after all that you have just watched.
To be fair to the cast, some of them give their all; but, they are just copying better performances of, even by then, hackneyed tropes from the days of black 'n white and the code.
The film is a not so much a story, as a vague idea for a type of villain. It's not a bad idea for a villain. In fact had it been written a thousand times better and executed well, they could have made a movie as just a sequence of genuinely horrifying scenes and the flimsiest of plots and it would have been fine.
As it stands, all I will remember of the film is someone making lengthy sexual suggestions more boringly than if she were the shipping forecast man giving a discourse on telephone directory listings.
To be fair to the cast, some of them give their all; but, they are just copying better performances of, even by then, hackneyed tropes from the days of black 'n white and the code.
The film is a not so much a story, as a vague idea for a type of villain. It's not a bad idea for a villain. In fact had it been written a thousand times better and executed well, they could have made a movie as just a sequence of genuinely horrifying scenes and the flimsiest of plots and it would have been fine.
As it stands, all I will remember of the film is someone making lengthy sexual suggestions more boringly than if she were the shipping forecast man giving a discourse on telephone directory listings.
This film is not merely watchable, it's genuinely entertaining. It has its flaws. It has many many flaws. It's like someone brought a bag of flaws into the cinema, opened it with too much gusto, and they went EVERYWHERE!
But, like stormtroopers, all of them miss and none of them matter. Despite the best efforts of those flaws, this film is not just watchable, but genuinely entertaining.
All of the actors can act. Not only that, but all of them can act with, at least, a modicum of screen presence; something you almost never see in post-milennial B-movies. Each one is a character acting and each scene is a character comedy vignette. They never quite manage to be laugh out loud funny; but, crucially, they are engaging, and they are able to create convincing chemistry between their characters. It's a solid six.
But, like stormtroopers, all of them miss and none of them matter. Despite the best efforts of those flaws, this film is not just watchable, but genuinely entertaining.
All of the actors can act. Not only that, but all of them can act with, at least, a modicum of screen presence; something you almost never see in post-milennial B-movies. Each one is a character acting and each scene is a character comedy vignette. They never quite manage to be laugh out loud funny; but, crucially, they are engaging, and they are able to create convincing chemistry between their characters. It's a solid six.
I remember aTV guide of the time trying to big duck patrol up before the first episode. Oddly, the same critiques made a big thing of praising the guy who commissioned it for being visionary. I read it, and found the discussion of the commisioner very odd, indeed.
This series mistook depiction of cameraderie for comedy. There was no comedy.
You probably won't have seen the Japanese psychedelic horror comedy Hausu, if you are reading this; so, I will, instead compare it to the Weetabix. The characters were like the weerabix gang: Brian, Dunk, Bixie, Crunch, and Brains. The characters names were descriptions of their single distinguishing character trait. I wish you were the kind of people who have probably watched Hausu - it's a better analogy.
Like the weetabix gang, you, the viewer, are supposed to watch it, half wishing that you too were part of their gang. I watched it as long as I could stand, wishing the stuff that happens in Hausu would happen to them.
Please ignore the good reviews. Most people who saw any of this godawful travesty take thd view that it isn't worth reviewing. Unfortunately, that just leaves utterly misleading eave reviews.
This series mistook depiction of cameraderie for comedy. There was no comedy.
You probably won't have seen the Japanese psychedelic horror comedy Hausu, if you are reading this; so, I will, instead compare it to the Weetabix. The characters were like the weerabix gang: Brian, Dunk, Bixie, Crunch, and Brains. The characters names were descriptions of their single distinguishing character trait. I wish you were the kind of people who have probably watched Hausu - it's a better analogy.
Like the weetabix gang, you, the viewer, are supposed to watch it, half wishing that you too were part of their gang. I watched it as long as I could stand, wishing the stuff that happens in Hausu would happen to them.
Please ignore the good reviews. Most people who saw any of this godawful travesty take thd view that it isn't worth reviewing. Unfortunately, that just leaves utterly misleading eave reviews.