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

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

I love The Penguins of Madagascar! Rico is my favourite! :D

[jedibuttercup]

...Madagascar was a movie, not a series, though, right?

[graycardinal]

Started out as feature films, but there's now a Nickelodeon series (I haven't seen it, but the creative team is largely the crew that masterminded Disney's Kim Possible, which is distinctly encouraging).

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

It goes for about 12 minutes an episode and is brilliant. I can't stand King Julian but I couldn't in the movies. I think we are watching season 2 now. There's Skipper, Kowalsky, Rico and Private and all the other kooky animals. The only ones not in it are the four main characters from the movies.