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[09 Sep 2009|04:10am] |
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So I was doing my periodic trawl of the various Nightmare Fuel pages and noticed someone mentioning that the Nostalgia critic had recently reviewed We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. They had a link to a creepy deleted scene, I followed it to the link to the full movie and I remembered that Megan had also asked recently if I had covered the film yet, so here we are by apparently popular request: We're Back!.
The Nostalgia Critic does as great a review as ever, so I won't say much. Just a few points:
--For the record, I do feel that it has merit as a film if you're into this kind of fucked up noise, but you know I am, and I know I have the nostalgia goggles tied on pretty tight most of the time.
--The "cage scene" link should be watched after the end, and watched in the middle of the distorted, disjointed pencil tests for maximum eeriness. While I can understand why they cut it, I wish they hadn't--not enough kids' villains do what they do because they have been shown the universe is cruel, insane, and senseless. It makes the ending particularly sobering, as it changes it from the triumph of good over evil to someone who was driven insane by a vicious act of nature being, essentially, killed by his own brother. Y'know, for kids!
--Also worth noting that Professor Screweyes and his entire plotline apparently didn't exist in the book the movie was based on. There's a special kind of crazy you only get in cartoons.
--I actually kind of dig the overwrought religious metaphor, because it's the weirdest fucking way I've ever seen Christianity interpreted.
Anyway, here are the links. Go nuts.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
The "Cage" Scene (Professor Screweyes' Origins)
The Nostalgia Critic review
ETA: oh sweet baby Jeebus that is skunk somebody hit a skunk out there oh gawd it's burning my eeeeeyes
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GYROMANCY!
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