April’s DVD reviews, Part I
Desperate Housewives: Season 3, Disc 6 - Nice season wrap-up this time around. Decent closure mixed with enough cliff-hangers to string you along much in the way token gifts on anniversaries do for actual housewives.
Grey’s Anatomy: Season 2, Disc 1 - Not really all that good. Or great, I suppose if you liked the first season a whole lot. For me, it’s getting old faster than I can watch them in FFwd.
Diggers, 2006 - Not so great, and this is coming from Paul Rudd’s biggest cheerleader who isn’t a fat girl. It’s okay, but I saw potential in the material that the rest of the crew ironically didn’t dig for.
Turk 182!, 1985 - From the director of Porkys and Porkys II, the idea here was a socially conscious take on Porkys. It ends up being an series of improbable and not-terribly-imaginative pranks to no conceivable political effect whatsoever. Oh, and no nudity, so that’s two strikes for a Bob Clark movie with Kim Cattrall.
Umberto D., 1952 - Hailed as one of the greatest movies of the 20th century, it’s one of the most forgettable movies of the 20th century. I saw it about five years ago and blanked on it.
Dexter: Season 1: Disc 4, 2006 - I have almost as many issues with this series as the title character has about, well, everything, but I have to admit that it has a quality to it that rises above most of my criticisms and makes it more engrossing than it should be, possibly because the chick who plays Dex’s sister is hot.
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!: Season 2: Disc 1, 2004 - Piled higher and deeper. It’s nice to hear them publicly rip on those who most deserve it. (Most of you and Diana in particular will enjoy the bit in here where they go off on the Men Are From Mars guy.)
Battlestar Galactica: Season 3: Disc 1, 2006 - You know how I’m always right? Well, I hadn’t seen this show in a while, so I had some trepidation about whether they still had the momentum to lift off from the emotional dregs of last season. Guess what? They did and I’m still always right. They should just change the name of the show to Battlestar Fucking Galactica to avoid any confusion that it’s COMPLETELY FUCKING AWESOME.
Tom Green: Inside & Outside the Box: Disc 2, 1997 - More of the desperate antics of an unoriginal comic. Truth is, the desperation took him places on stage and on the streets and wherever else there was a camera that few were willing to attempt.
Under the Cherry Moon, 1986 - The much-maligned Prince movie that almost no one ever saw, it’s commercially unviable in that it’s the exact opposite of Purple Rain in every way: It’s in black & white; With only a couple exceptions, the songs are all but buried as background or source music; Instead of being a tragically misunderstood introverted character, he’s an over-the-top blend of every comic film character from the ’20s through the ’50s. And you know what? It’s a pretty damned good movie for all that. The one criticism I have is that the screenplay is a bit all over the place so you can’t see the story arc, but I’m okay with that because I like not knowing where a filmmaker is trying to take me. If nothing else, the cinematography is at least as gorgeous as Prince thinks he is.
Knute Rockne All American, 1940 - Enjoyable enough even if you’re me and don’t like football or Ronald Reagan (who’s only in it for his very famous 5 minutes, don’t worry).
Ultimate Avengers: The Movie, 2006 - Animated film that follows the re-envisioned comic book series so closely that I’d recommend just reading the source material instead unless you’re in that much of a hurry that you’re waiting for the film adaptations instead. Geez.
Cars, 2007 - Remarkably awesome. I’m not much of a Pixar fan, but this is actually good on just about every level.
PICKS OF THE LITTER: I rarely agree with The Office’s Dwight Schrute about anything, but if you aren’t watching Battlestar Fucking Galactica, then you’re a complete idiot. Also Cars rocks and Under the Cherry Moon deserves a chance that you never gave it the first time you passed on watching it.
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