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This is something I never thought I’d say, but this looks to be beyond riffing odd. It’s so completely bizarre that nothing Mike and company can add to it makes it any more tolerable to watch than simply watching it, open-mouthed and stunned, on your own.
I may actually break my “get all downloadable video Rifftrax stuff” and pass on this.
This is certainly one of those times when just as you’re thinking there isn’t anything more bizarre, more strange or mind-bendingly ridiculous, along comes something like this.
And this was probably shown in schools as a way to shut the kids up for a while so Teacher could sneak off for a smoke. Good grief!
If you’ve been keeping track of the crew on Facebook, this is the VOD they’ve been hyping for a while now, and Mike has said numerous times that it’s his favorite movie since he started riffing. Surely he’s winking a bit when he says it, but this is definitely unlike anything they’ve ever done before. This is for hardcore fans of riffing; newcomers will get frustrated easily by the interminable scenes of marching bands and what not, regardless of how good the jokes are.
The good news is that those jokes are good, and they’re fairly well timed. They’re not too fast, and they give us time to simply gawk at what we’re being shown. A number of things/characters/whatever are bound to enter the pantheon of callback riffs. The marrying turkey, for one, and the loopy narrator for another. Describing this narrator would be utterly impossible here.
Short version: Fun in Balloon Land does not really qualify as a “film”, per se, but it does qualify as one of the best VODs they’ve done in a while. It’s definitely worth getting for Thanksgiving.
It’s…exhaustingly bizarre.
I now want a special where the Ice Cream Bunny, Candy Lion and Marrying Turkey team up to fight crime using their status of children’s icons who never were. Something like a mash-up of Birdman and Charlie’s Angels.
a film made by people who don’t use bath salts for it’s intended purpose…
…the hell?
“Old West Saloon Owner thinks that piano sounds terrible …”
Okay, serious question:
has anyone here heard the expression “all dressed up like a circus horse”?
That’s just…um…uh…huh?
Pants crapping insane is all I can say… Or maybe all I should say :)
If only the old Pincushion Man made an appearance in this film.
BTW, the parade depicted in this film is the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade (currently known as the 6abc Dunkin’ Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade), and it’s the oldest Thanksgiving Day parade in the United States (beating out the Macy’s Parade by four years).
There was a time that I used to LIKE watching parades…..But, I grew out of that stupid phase a long while ago.
To my mind, this is one of the best they’ve done. The film is obviously dreadful, but it’s never boring for a moment–there’s constantly some new and bizarre thing popping up on your screen, so that every time you think you know where it’s going suddenly a kid wearing nothing but gold swim trunks walks in, and then it switches to a drunk and/or crazy woman rambling on about the Marrying Turkey, and then there’s this insane “guessing game” at the end that wouldn’t feel out of place if you married the narration to the footage of the kids in the school bus at the end of ‘Dirty Harry’. It’s fertile ground for riffing, almost to the point where all they have to do is acknowledge that what you’ve seen really happened. Glorious madness.
Huh? What…I mean — Huh?!?
I know there are some films that seemed to exist just to fill time on local UHF stations in the 60s and 70s, but this one is barely a step up from a community college project on public access.
That said, the narrator that sounds completely blasted during the parade is a highlight. That incoherent “quiz” and song at the end was out of this world.