“Mr. Plinkett,” the serial killer/generally misunderstood guy who gave us the brilliant review of Episode I has finally posted his Episode II review. It’s not as funny or insightful as his Episode I review, but it’s still pretty funny and generally spot-on. He takes a few more extended odd turns in this one, though.
Gave up after less than a minute. They guy was an idiot when he did the first review, and he’s still an idiot. Both movies sucked, but “Mr. Plinkett” has virtually no ability to tell us why.
This post is so stupid it hurts. Yes, I suppose if you stop watching a 90 minute review after less than a minute, you really don’t find out much about why the reviewer thinks the movie he’s reviewing is terrible. Great insight there.
A 90 minute movie review? As Captain Kirk said this guy needs to get a life.
Just watched the Episode I review, all 90minutes of it. Hilariously bizarre.
Indeed. His Star Trek ones are great, too.
I’ve seen episode II half-way so far, and I think he’s doing pretty good, but not as good as Phantom Menace.
By the way, it’s 8 years later since Episode II, isn’t it? I mean, in one month, anyway.
I really, REALLY don’t care for the “Mr. Plinkett” persona, and in fact, the “my son committed suicide” joke in the first couple minutes of the Phantom Menace review are the reason that I didn’t get around to watching it until a couple of days ago, even though people have been telling me to watch it for months now. (edit: Not because I found the suicide joke offensive. Just a style of humor that I personally find completely unfunny.) However, once I got past the creepy voice and stupid attempts at serial killer comedy, I found out why everyone loves this thing so much. Great insight and commentary, and well worth watching if you have 70 minutes to kill. I’ve spent more than 70 minutes watching much shittier programming before.
Will definitely check out his Episode II review, although I am disheartened by the news that it has even more “odd turns.” I wish the guy would just do the reviews in a regular voice.
Even if you don’t want to watch 90 minutes, watch Part 7.
Why? What is so good in that part?
Couldn’t disagree more strongly. These reviews are like free film school.
Not quite, but he does do a very good job breaking down what is wrong with the more recent Star Trek movies(not including the new re-launch) and what is wrong with how George Lucas made the new films.
Yeah, this one did go further in the serial killer side bit and didn’t have as much of a punch as the Phantom Menace review but it was enjoyable at parts. I guess he’s upping the extremism of the serial killer bits but hopefully he will focus on more goofy or light-hearted bits like the pizza rolls or mispronunciations.
The Star Trek next gen movie reviews are fantastic. I’d like to see him review other franchises such as the various comic book movies over the past decade or two. Can’t deny that when you strip away the humor, his reviews are insightful, both with the more common observations while revealing some bits you don’t typically think about.
Yes, especially Star Trek: Generations.
He explains how the emphasis on lightsabers in the movie not only cheapens the lightsaber itself, but makes a mockery of the jedi and the force itself.
What’s nice, though, is that he always sticks it at the end now, so you can basically skip all the serial killer parts if you want.
I like his reviews and I went over episode 2 this evening. His actual commentary is unexpectedly insightful and, on this particular video, I like his take on how Samuel L. Jackson was specifically wasted in this movie. It more than explains why he was there and, more importantly, why his appearance was so disappointing.
That said, the ‘Mr. Plinkett’ persona is tiring, and I can understand why others have given up on it. I tend to skim over the ‘serial killer’ bits myself.
I just saw Part 7 and I agree. He basically gets into why George does not know what he is doing and how it is clear that he is diminishing people like Yoda and so forth by making them fight and use tiny lightsabers.
I mean, Lucas just has no idea.
The montage of good Samuel Jackson scenes from other movies is great, especially the last one.
The reviews are interesting, but I think he could have covered all the good insights in 30 minutes.
Does anybody else think he sounds like StrongBad?
His Star Trek reviews are a bit more fanboy-ish nitpicking, such as complaining about the appearance of Data’s emotion chip in “Generations” or the holodeck insta-clothes in “First Contact.” I suppose that’s because the chief problems in the Star Trek movies are the stories themselves (and the lazy shortcuts or fuzzy logic) as opposed to the prequels which are character-driven but the characters don’t make sense or have any demonstrable relationships or motivations.
This will be corrected in the “Special Edition” of this thread.