Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Movie Review - Yo-Yo Girl Cop
It's tough to rate this movie. I'm not truly sure whether I liked it or not.
The story was straightforward, and fine if you could overlook plot holes big enough to float the Motherland through, but hey, you weren't watching this for the plot anyways. The fight scenes were kind of sparce, but plenty of action, chase scenes, and the most Non-Twist on an ending you will ever see. I'm not even giving anything away when I tell you that the bad guy reveals his secret identity at the end and you go, "Um, who the hell are you?" Mel Brooks already did that, in Spaceballs, when Dark Helment announces that he is Lone Star's "...father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!" Well, I can only assume Kenta Fukasaku hadn't seen Spaceballs.
What threw me most about the film was the dialog. It has to be tough to translate the film directly, but some sayings that were supposed to be threats came out really really funny. For instance, when the Yo-Yo Girl's enemy grabs her by the throat, and is about to beat her to a pulp, she yells, "You will die Very Soon!"
Perhaps I will watch it again with the sound off and listen to Kamelot's 'Ghost Opera' while watching Asian schoolgirls have a standoff in a warehouse with Government Issue HyperPowered Yo-Yos.
KTHXBYE,
-CZ
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The story was straightforward, and fine if you could overlook plot holes big enough to float the Motherland through, but hey, you weren't watching this for the plot anyways. The fight scenes were kind of sparce, but plenty of action, chase scenes, and the most Non-Twist on an ending you will ever see. I'm not even giving anything away when I tell you that the bad guy reveals his secret identity at the end and you go, "Um, who the hell are you?" Mel Brooks already did that, in Spaceballs, when Dark Helment announces that he is Lone Star's "...father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!" Well, I can only assume Kenta Fukasaku hadn't seen Spaceballs.
What threw me most about the film was the dialog. It has to be tough to translate the film directly, but some sayings that were supposed to be threats came out really really funny. For instance, when the Yo-Yo Girl's enemy grabs her by the throat, and is about to beat her to a pulp, she yells, "You will die Very Soon!"
Perhaps I will watch it again with the sound off and listen to Kamelot's 'Ghost Opera' while watching Asian schoolgirls have a standoff in a warehouse with Government Issue HyperPowered Yo-Yos.
KTHXBYE,
-CZ
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