Archduke_Chocula

Taking a note from Monty Python, Broken Lizard changes gears and heads for a tropical trip with club Dread. They easily retain their hilarity, although the film tries and balance the horror with scares...good ones, Lizard easily excels at great gags and characters, There's Putman, the Tennis Pro, Lars, the new masseuse who's good with the ladies, and Sam the Fun Police. It goes like this, apparently the legend known as Machete Phil is going around town murderizing all the staff members. Pretty soon the staff is on the run from an unknown to the partygoers. The film has some good references to Jaws, Jimmy Buffet [Son of a son of a bitch], as well as everyone's favorite dot muncher, Pac-Man, Pac-Man's tribute comes in the form of a drinking game where a man gets chased by four scantily clad woman as he tackles people in fruit costumes and runs to a coconut filled with booze which results in the woman undressing, a perfect example of Broken Lizards ingenious film.

A definite must see and guaranteed to get better with each viewing.

Back in Action Terminator 3 packs the action and kicks some ass in T3 which is NOT helmed by James Cameron

it is now 2003, 6 years after Judgement Day, the day when skynet was to go active and judgement day was to occur, still fearing the worst, John Conner (Stahl) lives off the grid, on the street, working from town to town without any trace of his existence on computer or any records, it is at this point that the T-X (Loken) and THE Terminator (Arnie!) arrive thanks to Time Displacement and there off to the races with Loken outdoing Robert Patrick in terms of performance and menace, her T-X is a cold cruel assassin, securing a vehicle, a weapon, and openly taking out her targets who are NOT John Conner.

meanwhile John Conner connects with one Kate Brewster (Danes) a Vet whose father, a military figure is dealing with how to fix a virus, his peers suggest the use of there software Skynet setting up the notion of Judgement Day which has only been postponed, as we learn from the Terminator, Judgement Day is inevitable.

The principle actors are all game for this new installment which is a retread of T2 only with new and returning plot devices, the T-X is a mixture of Arnies endoskeletal Terminator with the T-1000's liquid metal acting as a shell for it. Johnathon Mostow (U-571) takes over James Camerons goliath franchise bringing freshness to the table, and as James is missed, Mostow does a stand up job of continuing the ongoing saga of John Conner and his acceptence of fate.

Marco Beltrami takes over Brad Fiedel and although he does a good job, duplicating the creepy music of the T-1000 for the T-X with some added flair, Fiedels theme is tossed aside until the end credits which is a shame.

over a solid film that will be sure to surprise the naysayers as this Terminator, a shorter, leaner terminator than T2, is an amazing tale.

9/10

since I have not seen the original show (I may have when i was young but it would've fallen right out of my head) but I do know this, it could have been something more

look to Warner Bros. if you want to blame someone or something for there tainted hand ruined the story, Sean Connery is totally wrong for this, having saved the world so many times as 007 it just isn't believable for him to want to destroy it, its a real shame to think if this one got off the ground it may have been succeeded by a greater sequel, that could improve upon the chemistry, the story.

I would love to see what would happen if they released the original cut which 66% longer (around two and a half hours) to think of all the scenes and sense some of the plot would make (I still have no clue why there are two Emma Peels but I go with it)

It's just to bad the series never got the chance to become just that, a series.

It's all your fault Warner, but they won't care, too bad I liked it, and wonder what a sequel would have brought to the table.

6/10