Observation: The lead character looks a lot like a Japanese Martin Sheen.
Movie: As the only Gamera movie without an annoying kid or, amazingly, any kid at all. It gets extra points for that. The human cast is pretty decent for one of these things, especially the heel and the lead type guy, none of whos names are worth remembering. But then the monsters show up, and well, bore and confuse the crap out of everybody. The fights are horribly filmed, dark, and pointless. Also, Gamera is barely in this movie at all! He shows up in the first five minutes, all exposition, a fight scene halfway through and a deus ex machina appearence at the end. Sad really.
5/10
Sketches: I love the voicemails! But sadly, little else. Crow ranting and free associating takes up half the sketches and even Joel says that they're tiresome. The middle sketch got more laughs than the rest combined, and was quite, quite funny... Mostly because it relied on the voicemail. Oh well, it's early yet, only being the third real show and all.
2/10
Riffing: Great, hilarious, with a hit to miss ratio that beats later episodes and Rifftrax. Only problem; there's barely any riffs at all. The first five minutes only seemed to have two, and the poor quality copy available made them unintelligible. It did pick up about halfway through, luckily or else it would've been really hard to get through it.
Best riff: "This monster does not know the meaning of around."
3/10
Overall: Right before the first break, I suddenly noticed that Crow wasn't sitting in the theater anymore, and neither was Tom. Joel sat there by himself for about thirty seconds, then with no fanfare, got up and left. It took me ahile to notice this because they were being just as quiet then as they had the previous five minutes. Truth be told I was dreading watching this because of the horror stories of how bad and slow these were and well, the slowness holds but not the bad. I'm more dissapointed than annoyed because the riffing is so spot on when they acually bother to say something. We all gotta start out somewhere, eh?
2/10
What I learned:
A rainbow is a very powerful weapon.
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