Topic: DVD -- Fight School II: Reloaded (Read 22 times)
Master Chris Guest
DVD -- Fight School II: Reloaded « Thread Started on Oct 8, 2009, 11:22am »
Well, Fight School has just released their second DVD, featuring Fight School II: Reloaded.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to give this one something of a mixed review. Maybe it was me, but there were points where the sound quality was a bit ... lacking, and some of the jokes were lost. At some camera angles, the sound is good enough, while at other angles ... well, it's as if the sound of the wind or something gets in the way.
But still, the Fight School gang put on their usual good show of demonstration fights, quips, and unabashed geeky references. And while it's been a number of years since the movie the 'Reloaded' portion of the title comes from, Dash's putting on the black coat for the gun duel still works well.
But what really makes the DVD worth the price is the 'Dagger Fight' extra. At first, it appears to be just a fight between Captain Julienne Romero and Hamish Stuart that was removed from the Fight School show because other portions ran too long, but then it gets really wild. It starts at the Market Stage, and then goes to the Main Gate, and then the Dragon Inn. And there things suddenly get weird... really weird. What happens there is a good example of what's known on the Internet as a Big Lipped Alligator Moment.
(In case you don't know, the term is inspired from a bizarre scene in 'All Dogs Go To Heaven' ... a scene that comes out of nowhere, has little or no bearing on the storyline, is really wild, crazy, and over the top even in context and afterward everyone just acts like the whole thing never happened. It was coined by the Nostalgia Critic and the Nostalgia Chick when discussing another wild, out-of-nowhere sequence in 'Ferngully'. Another well-known example is the scary tunnel sequence from 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory').
I won't spoil the surprise for you, but you'll know it when you see it. It's certainly over-the-top even by Fight School standards. Of course, this is comedy, so something wild and random like this still works.
All in all, it's a good DVD, though the actual 'Reloaded' show portions could have been better sound-wise.
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