Idle Entertainment

[jedibuttercup]

I dined at the parents' last night, and a friend of ours brought the video entertainment for the evening. I should have imdb'ed Attack Force before I let them put it in; it truly deserves a one-out-of-five-stars rating. Damn, Seagal's getting old. The plot summary's more exciting than anything that happens in it, and the only female character who isn't a secretary, a whore, or a hyped-on-drugs adversary dies before the end credits roll. We had a lot of fun mocking it.

Nearly as terribly plotted, but considerably more enjoyable: The Mummy: Secrets of the Medjai. All twenty-six episodes were on sale for something like $9 at Wal-Mart, and animated half-hour shows translate to about twenty-one minutes each without commercials, which is perfect for watching two back-to-back while on the elliptical machine. (The show pretty much presents like a parallel AU of the movies: most of the same characters are there, but they act like they don't remember anything that happened in them, and Evie's Irish or something instead of half-Egyptian).

I went through the first season of "Real Ghostbusters" the same way earlier in the year (the quality drops half-way through, but makes more world-sense than the Mummy series), and after watching the laughably-written but drawn-on-intriguing-backdrop Shyamalan movie that just came out, I think I'll pick up some "Avatar: The Last Airbender" next.

Any more animated series worth picking up on DVD for idle entertainment? I really didn't watch anything but the Disney Afternoon as a kid-- oh, and sometimes a little Sailor Moon or Inspector Gadget-- so I'm pretty unenlightened.

Comments

[pronker]

I enjoyed Real Ghostbusters when Youngest was into it. Great fun in the mold of the first movie.

[jedibuttercup]

I'd pick up more if the local Best Buy ever carried them. =) One of these days I suppose I'll have to look them up online, but that's a slippery spending slope I try to avoid.

[pronker]

It's dumb, but I like it a lot: Superhero Squad Show. All those Marvel heroes in extremely dumbed down mode. And the song, oh that song that won't leave your head ... it's currently on Cartoon network. Also current is Brave and the Bold, jollified Batman teamup stories a la the old BB comic book.

Also, I second Penguins of Madagascar.