RedLetterMedia Reviews AotC

I told you it was Star Wars day.

So one of my most favourite of things is the RedLetterMedia reviews on Star Wars and Star Trek movies. The Star Trek reviews are really funny, and quite intelligent regarding the difference between the TNG movies and the series. Did I mention they are funny? They might not be as amusing to non-Trekkies, but this is the internet, are there even non-Trekkies on here?

In regards to the Star Wars, up until now the dude has only reviewed The Phantom Menace. This series was a) epic (70min) b) hilarious (what's wrong with your face!?), and c) really critically insightful. I don't mean to disparage the guy, but who knew this sort of review could exist on the internet, and on YouTube no less. The review is a prime example of how comedy can be used as a rhetorical device to drive points home. His ideas regarding the lack of a protagonist and suggestion to create one in Obi Wan (as opposed to multiple non-protagonists) would have genuinely made the film more concise and interesting to watch.

As it is, RedLetterMedia has released his review of Attack of the Clones, and its 90 frickin-minutes!. I'm looking forward to watching it and I may post a review if I feel up to it. Critique a critique!? Never you say, but we're revolutionaries here at NtC. I promise you.

Caveat time: the video's are done with a persona, which at one time is hilarious and a fault. The persona has developed over the course of the videos and has become increasingly distracting. Most of the time he is funny, but other times the aspects of him murdering prostitutes and his wife interrupt the quality review for some obvious and painfully unfunny interludes. I hope that these asides are less frequent in the new review, rather than more as the trend has been thus far.

UPDATE: It looks like Part 1 has been taken down because of some copyright problems with cartoon network. Really Cartoon Network? The channel that uses old cartoons to make stoner comedies? Remember that thing I just said about finding levity in Star Wars George?