Sunday, November 8, 2009

Mea Culpas, Mini-Review-A-Rama, and the Return of Metal

I am very very sorry as to the absence of my ramblings as of late, but you should know that you, the gentle readers, shall reap the benefits. Right? RIGHT! Now, just to get caught up on everything I will go a series of mini reviews, which will hereby be called MINI-REVIEW-A-RAMA! Who says I'm not groundbreaking? ALLON-SY!

VENTURE BROS. 4.3 "Perchance to Dean"
Christ, I love that title anyway, this episode we saw a Brock flashback where Doc Venture was showing a super 90's version of Brock the Boy Clone Farm, but one Dean was all Sloth so it gets flushed...and survives to hate the real Dean Venture. Go figure huh? This episode also saw the return of Dermot and general hi-jinks from him. The Sloth Dean was actually super creepy, because we learn that not only does he hate Real Dean, but he has been digging up dead clone Dean bodies to make a skin suit to earn his father's love. Yeesh. My favorite bits though were when Doc Venture, in an effort to jump start Dean's career in Super-Science, shows him where he gets his inspiration...Prog-Rock in the form of Yes records. Hell yes.

VENTURE BROS. 4.4 "Return to Malice"
This might be one of my favorite episodes of Venture Bros ever. Why? Two words: Henchman 21. This episode shows his hilarious decent into madness and how he became the most badass member of The Monarch's hench squad. I'm actually not going to give a full review solely because I don't wanna give anything away...so go to AdultSwim.com some time this week and watch the fucker, though I will give away that Dr. Mrs. The Monarch is still hot as hell.

MOVIE REVIEW: "Law Abiding Citizen'
Wayyyyy more entertaining than I thought it would be. Super gritty and smart. Great performances from Foxx and Butler, though still wished it was directed by Frank Darabont.

METALOCALYPSE 3.1! "RenovationKlok"
Holy Ronnie James Dio, I have been waiting for this for awhile. With there manager dead, Dethklok is forced to start running there business and how do you think it goes? If you guess, horribly hilarious you guessed right. This is easily one of the funniest episodes of the show and I am glad this show is popular because the evolution of this show has been very interesting to watch. It started as just a goof on rock stars, but now, with this episode Brenden Small manages to squeeze slapstick, foreboding, and a funny and sharp as hell satire on the record industry and recession. This season is already so metal.

YAY OF CATCH UP!

Awesome Spoiler: Dethklok's manager (and my favorite character) isn't dead!