DaveInIndiana

I was skeptical at first--the weekly intro with the host in various positions while people walk around him isn't great--but this show is hilarious and gets better each week. Lots of shows try to be sick, but very few are sick AND funny in a new enough way to make them watchable each week (South Park being the obvious king of the genre). The show consists of both live action, with the kiddie-style host "Doug" and his puppets, and short clip segments (many of which are cartoons). Happily, Smigel doesn't just fall back on the Ambiguously Gay Duo or Triumph; his new creations, like the Joe Camel Pokemon take-off, are very funny if a little over the top. I do wish he wouldn't use real kids in his skits, as most of them are clearly adult-oriented. Comedy Central has had more than enough bombs lately, but "TV Funhouse" is definitely worth watching.

This was playing at the local movie theater I worked at about three years ago. During our lunch, we were (ahem) "allowed" to watch the movie. After ten minutes of "The Pest", I decided I'd rather go back to work. No redeeming qualities whatsoever, and stupid, insulting humor not worthy of Andrew Dice Clay, let alone John Leguazamo. His role as Luigi in "Super Mario Bros." had more dignity (and laughs) than this.

I'm not a huge Jim Carrey fan; to me, he's better in movies like "Dumb and Dumber", when he doesn't rearrange his facial features every two minutes. In "Liar Liar", he tries too hard, perhaps to make up for the one-dimensional characterization and plot. I've seen Sprite commercials with more depth than this movie. Not worth the hype, and with an ending that makes me yearn for the subtle resolution of "Die Hard."

I'm loathe to comment on "Werewolf", even though it is my favorite bad movie. Nothing I say would do justice to just how bad this movie is. And made in 1996? Twenty years after Star Wars, and we get shiny rubber wolf masks and some yo-yo in a bear suit. Unforgivable. The director should have doubled the special effects budget by ordering his Big Mac without fries.

Special effects aren't the whole story, of course, but "Werewolf" doesn't get any better. The actors don't speak English very well; a forgivable sin, but the dialogue isn't good and they compensate by mumbling it. The plot devices are transparent and the fight scenes straight out of the worst B-movie tradition (As Servo comments on an escaping ladies' slow progress, "Mud...impossible...to...get...through.") And there's a special place in Hell for the guy in charge of continuity, who liked "Finnegan's Wake" so much he made a movie almost as random. Night becomes day becomes night; werewolves become bats become bears; and one actor's hairstyle changes seven (count 'em) seven times. High point of the movie: A werewolf drives into flaming oil barrels carelessly left by the special effects man on the set.

Awful and hilarious; if everyone watched the MST3K version, we wouldn't need Prozac.

I loved this movie, but then again I lived near West Hollywood where this type of thing is (ahem) normal. The performances were all good; of course I fell in love with Fairuza Balk like everyone else, but on repeated viewing Robin Tunney is also quite good. "The Craft" knows that high school is not a happy time, and although I was a young boy and not a young girl, from my experiences with the goth life, it is accurate. Interesting also how you had the popular cliche, who were bad, against the gothic clique, who were also bad. Even in the end, when Robin Tunney breaks with the other three, you get the sense she isn't pure as the driven snow. There are shades of gray in this movie worth seeing, and I like the way it portrayed the counterculture as it more or less is, and not in some fairy tale "happy outcasts" manner. On the whole, 8 out of 10, and worth watching.

I'm going to break tradition and not trash this movie. Sure, it's been on MST3K, and it's bad; but, it's not beyond hope.

Unlike most MST3K fare, I can buy the premise. I can even buy the hero; he's not a great actor, but he does a good job with the lines he has. He has some talent. I can't buy the plot, however. It is hackneyed and unimaginative. Time travel can be a fascinating movie subject, and films like "Back to the Future" knew how to wallow in it; to really make us feel that we had travelled back in time. They overplayed their hand, showing us the 1950's as Rockefeller saw it, not as it really was. It was larger than life, and that's why it was compelling.

"Time Chasers" underplays it's hand. All the scenes look like they were filmed around 1990. There's no sense of place. Part of this, I'm sure, is the low budget. But the director made poor choices in his visuals, focusing on everyday objects in the supposed "future" (As Servo points out, "Look! A hot dog stand of the FUTURE!"). As a result, the time travel, and its resultant paradoxes, are boring and mundane.

A final word about the computers used in this movie. I was ready to forgive them, until I saw the production date. 1994! Good Lord! Did people still use 5 1/4" floppies and EGA graphics back then? There's no excuse for this. Maybe the director wanted to emulate "Wargames". Maybe he forgot that "Wargames" was over a decade old. There, the ancient technology looked authentic and compelling. Here, it just looks cheap.

The premise is good. The execution is not. Too bad it's not just the thought that counts.

This is a campy movie, whether intended as one or not. The acting, dialogue, etc. are so bad that you don't NEED Mike, Crow, and Servo to make the jokes. "Hobgoblins" fails in every respect, but in one of those quirky twists of fate, it's unintentionally funny enough to be watchable. A word about the puppets: I can't imagine who thought those god-awful things were a good idea. Did someone really think these bastard offspring of Alfred E. Neuman and the "Lion King" hyenas would scare people? And the marionnation is wretched. I'm guessing the puppeteer saw "Fraggle Rock"--once--and went from there. I can't say enough about how bad (and funny) these things look. Whenever I'm feeling blue, I just think of these puppets, and I feel better.