For those of you who haven’t heard of it, there’s a new comedy reviewer (think Yahtzee, Angry Video Game Nerd, millions of faceless people on Youtube) that’s getting some recognition. He reviews old movies that, as a general rule, were very bad, or at least bad in hindsight (i.e. Captain Planet).
His timing is perfect and his comments are golden, I think I’ve laughed at every single review he’s done, which is more than I can say for a lot of similar series. His style is very animated, and strikes me as intelligent (maybe it’s just the glasses). Overall I thought some dopers would enjoy it. If I had to recommend a few I would pick (very tough choices): Batman and Robin, Tom and Jerry the Movie, Captain Planet, and Drug Cartoon (Cartoon Allstars to the Rescue), Video Game Review (Bebe’s Kids), and Top 10 Drug PSA’s but pick any random one and you’re good.
The ones with the Angry Video Game Nerd are part of an imagined “war” between the two because some of his fans compared him to the AVGN (they both pick on nostalgic things that suck), eventually leading to AVGN reviewing a movie (which didn’t work too well, James Rolfe reviews movies well, his AVGN character not so much) and Nostalgia Critic reviewing a game. If you want to follow it but don’t want to do the trouble of hunting every thing down Cinemassacre (James Rolfe’s site) has a nice list of the turmoil here: AVGN-S1—015-Chronologically-Confused – Cinemassacre
Here’s the Link to the Nostalgia Critic’s video archive (a lot of videos are mildly NSFW, due to tiny bits of profanity):
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic
The Nostalgia Critic is played by “That Guy With the Glasses” (real name: Doug) who also does:
Ask TGWTG: http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/ask-thatguy
A kind of “ask a stupid question get a stupid answer” thing (warning on episode five, there’s an obvious screamer, but in case you’re a little dense thought I’d warn you).
Chester A. Bum (Bum Reviews): http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/bum-reviews
Basically newer movie reviews with a bum who thinks every movie is “the greatest movie [he’s] ever seen in [his] life!”
He also has some various non-related sketches: http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/sketches
Which tend to be very good, his delivery of The Aristocrats has to be the best I’ve heard, probably even better than the much hailed Bob Saget’s. And the GNN (Gotham News Network), watch Joker first, then Mad hatter. It’s basically a news show (obviously based around CNN) that deals with various “issues” in Gotham which always gets interesting what with all the crime in Gotham.
There are also other people who have videos on his site, but I haven’t really been interested in their shows much, certainly not as good as the main features.
Anyway the humor is great and if you need a laugh watch them, once I found that site I don’t think I moved until I watched all the videos. I thought the Dope may appreciate his work.