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Half Baked (1998)
Some great material and quotes here if you can appreciate it.
Half-Baked isn't an intense drama that's meant to sweep the awards, out to win the hearts of young and old alike. It's just plain fun. The plot is on the side. A common theme between jokes. In a movie like this, it's OKAY. The jokes and the parodies are the heart of it, and the main reason I derived great enjoyment from it. (And is one of the few movies I'll watch again and again.)
Who can forget The Guy on the Couch, the kids getting high for the first time, Jerry Garcia in a pouch, "Sucks to be YOU man!", the diabetic horse, the Squirrel Master, Billy Bong Thorton, the flying Rottweiler (and the fantastic flashback sequence involving his life), among many other things I'm surely forgetting?
Not everyone is cut out to enjoy movies like this that make light of drugs (like the Cheech and Chong movies, for example), and those who aren't shouldn't write reviews of them. Just like if horror movies aren't your thing, you don't review Scream. Whether our anonymous Canadian friend who also commented on this movie, here, falls into this category or not, I don't know, but it sure seemed like it. I'd hate to see this movie slighted because someone just couldn't appreciate it.
The Critic (1994)
Most under-appreciated series...:(
While 'The Simpsons' broke a lot of ground with its far-out humor, 'The Critic' sits just above it in my list of favorite animated series. From the Easter Island Kid at the UN High School, to the forks in the ceiling, no other animated series has been able to tickle my "obscure reference and bizzare humor" bone like this series has. (It's my favorite type of humor). It's very unfortunate that it was passed from ABC to Fox to Comedy Central. They really didn't realize the mass of talent that was working for that show. With the passing away of Doris Grau, and everyone else being scattered to the winds with a full work schedule (from what I'm told), I fear there is no hope for a return of this great series. I'm forced to relive what few episodes there were on video tape or on Comedy Central...watch it while you can...
Batman & Robin (1997)
Great Batman parody! (Oh wait, it's a real Batman movie?)
"Okay okay...lets cast...[throws dart]...George Clooney as Batman...and [ *snicker*] Alicia Silverstone as BATGIRL, and pile on the rubber! "
"Yeah yeah!"
"Okay, and lets turn Robin into a spoiled brat."
"Yeah!!"
"And, lets see how many one-liners we can throw into the script! It'll be like the old 'college kids in the phone booth' gag!"
"YEAH!!"
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That, and more pretty much sums up the movie. Yes, I saw it in the theatre, but I'll tell you this: I didn't spend one red cent on these morons. I went to see a pre-release version of "Contact", and they let us see it for free. (Not a good deal, considering this movie.)
Luckily, I brought my notepad, and made three separate divisions on a sheet of paper. One for Freeze, one for Batman/Robin/etc, and another for Poison Ivy. Each time a character spit out a one-liner, I would mark it down in the designated area. I swear this: There were well over 200 marks on that piece of paper, (if memory serves, but it was certainly some almost unbelievably high amount) and Freeze had more than the other two columns COMBINED...I had to continue on the other side of the paper! This was the high point of the movie. Honest.
From the obviously fake plastic ice, to air-boarding off a rocket, to the low-blow of trying to make us believe Alfred would really die (Alfred is still my favorite, and he's out of place here -- he can act.), to Robin's sudden spoiled rotten teenager behavior, not to meniton just downright UNENJOYABLE plot and lame acting, I'm honestly suprised that "Batman & Robin" (whats with that name anyways?!) isn't much higher on the Bottom 100 list.
It made me actually BELIEVE that "Batman Forever" was okay. Now THATS a feat.
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
If you bought it, HEY! You just bought an expensive blank tape!
Watching "Mission to Moscow" should be required as a torture device, alongside the Howard the Duck videos and The Rack.
It makes me teary eyed to see a fun series like the first two or two Police Academy movies do the slow burn into outright stupidity. It just gets worse and worse with each new movie.
Now, in this (hopefully) final film, we've degraded ourselves down to using generic "funny" sound effects, like you might see on a cartoon -- with similarly stupid nonsense situations to accompany them.
I haven't seen this movie since it came out, but I'm still scarred by the memory of it. Save your money. Save yourselves. Avoid the planet Earth at all costs. (Whoops, wrong movie.)
It's Pat: The Movie (1994)
It's Pat... but who really cares?
Probably the only reason to even consider renting "It's Pat" is because the band Ween is in it. Otherwise, it's one mind numbing "Is Pat male or female?" bit after another... because, hey, isn't SNL all about taking any sketch that gets even ONE clap from the audience and doing it over and over to death?
Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992)
Utter trash.
I enjoyed the first two movies, and it can be reasonably assumed that, like the "Police Academy" movies, the quality and humor would degrade over time. With "Revenge of the Nerds III", instead of being not quite as good as the other two, the quality/humor dropped like a rock. It's made-for-TV, and it shows.
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
It's "Hands, The Hands of Fate"!
Does anyone REALLY watch this lovable trash WITHOUT MST3k? I couldn't possibly imagine anyone watching this from beginning to end without Joel and the bots.
I will say this -- Torgo's theme music is the stuff of legend.
(And don't eat the crazy bread.)