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The meta self depricating tone hot the exact right note for the material, I feel a gritty reboot would have been terrible. Cool fantasy sci fi shit, genuine laughs and loveable leads, an overall fun time!
I fucking love the originals, and I just wanted to laugh my ass off for 90 minutes.
What I got was a film that felt very underbaked. So many jokes fell flat, and nowhere near enough Brenda and Cindy. The "edgy" humour revolving around hit button issues did'nt feel particularly edgy or humourous.
Still some laughs, and there was a pleasure in seeing the gang back together, so not a complete loss.
I take no pleasure in ripping apart a local production, especially one that was made by a clearly talented cast and crew, but its so frustrating that this film made it past the script stage. Giant stretches of this film go by with nothing of consequence happening. Possible character moments are hinted at but never explored. Completely devoid of wit or humour or scares. This had all the ingredients for a really fun movie, it's just such a shame we ended up with this bland mess of a film. Do better and maybe our local productions can actually make a splash on the international stage.
The Room, Birdemic, Cats, Battlefield Earth. My Darling In Sterling deserves to stand among these so bad they're good masterpieces. Everything about this film is bonkers, completely sung by people that can't sing but in a huge twist, the actors are actually lip syncing to OTHER VOICE ACTORS! So they actually hired people specifically to sing and not act, who can't even sing.
Besides being sung horribly, the music is completely comprised of free use music off the internet, and…
