Just when you thought it was safe to be a mutant, the X-Men return! The original X-Men RiffTrax was one of the first dozen or so, and was the first appearance of Bill Corbet in a RiffTrax, IIRC. He and Mike Nelson soloed that one, and both of them are back along with Kevin Murphy for the second movie in the mutant franchise. This time, questions are answered, schools are invaded, white houses are bamfed, people are frozen, and Magneto is still evil.
We continue the CEREBRO/MAGNETO jokes from Mike that filled the original RiffTrax, and add to them jokes about smurfs, naked blue chicks, Captain Picard, and a certain mutant actor’s musical career.
Particularly good riffs include a callback to the terrible The Happening, Lemon drink, inconsistencies in mutant powers, and body counts.
While not the best RiffTrax I have heard, it was pretty entertaining and I enjoyed it. The Riff was aided by the fact the movie is entertaining on its own, I can’t wait until the third installment of the trilogy, because that is the film in the franchise deserving a butt kicking. Stop by RiffTrax.com and pick up a copy of this Riff.
So the RiffTrax for The Happening is out, and thus gave me a reason to finally see the M. Night Shyamalan movie about killer plants and Mark Wahlberg.
The Happening has the distinction of being a movie about plants who leak an airborne toxin to kill people, because people are a bunch of douchebags who pollute the planet, kill bees, and spend lots of the film staring vacantly into space. This film is unbelievably bad, and the longer it goes, the worse the movie gets. The only likeable characters all die, and instead we have to follow the complete bore Mark Wahlberg is playing as he wusses his way around the East Coast. Mark is joined by Zooey Deschanel, who cannot act at all and spends most of the film staring with wide eyes. Rather disturbing. The third person in the main group is the daughter of John Leguizamo’s character, played by Ashlyn Sanchez, who is a small girl and thus Shyamalan gives her odd camera angles to emphasize how this is extra traumatic to her, even though the movie is boring. The likable characters such as John Leguizamo, the Hot Dog guy, the Army guy, and the two kids who get shotgunned all manage to die quickly. Everyone who lives does the dumbest things over and over again, to the point where you want them to die, but the movie hates you and keeps them alive. Up yours, The Happening. The film is filled with incorrect science on evolution and plant communication, plus just says “we’ll never know because it was nature” as an answer to almost everything. Even though the film already answered the question like twenty times in the film. Look for Dante from Clerks showing up as a jeep driver who has a need for speed and not wearing seatbelts.
A film like that would be quite painful by itself, but luckily we have Mike, Kevin, and Bill to keep us company. Thank goodness for that! From opening references about What’s Happening and stretching Deschanel, to constant breaking into songs and riffing on the terrible camera angles, fun times for all. Go to hell, plants!
Remember to run from the wind, because the wind is evil. And plants are evil, but it is the wind you run from. The movie tries to have jumpscares with wind! This movie is terrible. But the RiffTrax is golden. Stop by RiffTrax.com and pick it up, you’ll be glad you did, once you get over the fact you have to watch The Happening.
There is a free RiffTrax of an episode of The Incredible Hulk from the folks at RiffTrax.com, synced up for your pleasure thanks to Hulu! You have no excuse not to watch! Watch it, you pansies!
There seems to have been a whole ton of RiffTrax put out since last time I did an entry on them. Let’s see what I missed thanks to the magic of me finally getting off of my lazy, busy butt and upping the posters!
The third and best prequel gets nailed with a RiffTrax featuring all three of the MST3K guys.
A special DVD edition that I haven’t seen, with Mike and the always funny Fred Willard taking on the classic garbage scow of a film Missile to the Moon.
Nic Cage’s terrible vehicle gets blasted by Mike and his wife Bridget.
The three MST3k Guys take on the first Indiana Jones film. I’ve not seen this one.
Harry Potter movie one gets what it deserves, by all three of the MST3K guys.
Spiderman gets stuck in the MST3K web
The terrible, terrible Transformers movie is riffed and riffed again.
The most recent RiffTrax, and among the best ever. Seriously, this was so awesome! I never thought I’d ever watch this again after suffering through it before, but now I have seen it again with Riffs, and will probably watch it several more times, the Riffs are that good.
I hadn’t written about RiffTrax in a while as I had been busy. They recently celebrated their 1st year anniversary, and just released the movie 300, which was a pretty good riff featuring all three of the MST3K crew, Mike Nelson, Bill Corbet, and Kevin Murphy. I didn’t see 300 until just before watching it while riffed, I found it over the top in a weird way, and can see why certain people really like it. I doubt I will watch it again non-Riffed, though. I did enjoy the RiffTrax, it was well done, and the last of the “This is Sparta!” puns they did was by far my favorite line.
The three will all be back for the next movie, another action flick The Bourne Identity. I have yet to see this one also (but have seen the sequel) so it will probably be entertaining. They must have figured out that almost everyone buying them are young males and thus action films go hand in hand.
The first of the Film Crew DVDs is out, Hollywood After Dark, which is a good film if you want to see sleazy people be sleazy, and Rue Maclanhan strip tease. No one does, so the movie is awful, but the Film Crew movies are superior to the RiffTrax and the disc is a winner. I eagerly await the other three films released. The Film Crew movies were filmed years ago and are finally getting released, but the producer says if they do well than more will be made. So we all know what to do, buy 50 copies each!
Here is the RiffTrax Live report I promised. I went to the Memorial Day show at Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco. I and my girlfriend attended, where everyone was in the dark as to the subject of the movie we would be watching. As we sat at the tables waiting to order the two drinks we were required to order (stupid minimum drink rules!) they accidentally flashed the Over the Top title screen on the screen. Now the riffers already did Over the Top, except it was a Mike only affair. This time there were all three of them, and the jokes came faster and more furious. I never even finished the solo Mike RiffTrax, and now experiencing all three of them doing it I probably never will, as I’ll be disappointed by the slower previous effort. In all a good time was had, despite the extra bill from the drinks. Had I been able to go to San Rafael I would have, but we wouldn’t have been in town. Hopefully they will be back soon, and more riffing will be riffed!
RiffTrax for Eragon has been watched. Excellent, excellent, gave that movie what it deserved! Best part was the end credits! Don’t forget to check out our take on Eragon as well.
The current RiffTrax is Glitter. Yes, Mariah Carey’s Glitter! Talk about your DEEP HURTING! Special guest riffer is Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester!) BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY! Don’t forget to listen to the end credits on this one as well.
Next up: Predator!
In addition, RiffTrax live is this weekend, and they won’t be doing Predator, the new movie is a secret, and I will be there Monday to see the second show! Hopefully will have lots to report.
