
Salt of the earth, Peter MacNicol, but it's not him.Īctually, the one man who can break the yoke of slavery and lead mankind to victory is Johnny Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper), if you can believe that. And that one man is television character actor Peter MacNicol. In the year 3000 man is an endangered species, enslaved, severely unshowered, beholden to a cruel alien race fond of dreadlocks and really impractical boots.Only one man can break the yoke of slavery and lead mankind to victory over their cruel tyranny. It's a trio of crime fighting Riffiness that no Riffaholic should Riff without. So his good friends Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy, (who are both also Men Without Fear) are all along for the ride. Only a fool would choose to leap headfirst into such a world of second tier heroes on his own, and Mike, despite voluntarily spending hours of his time watching Daredevil, is no fool. Along the way he encounters Elektra (Jennifer Garner), who he fights on a teeter-totter, Bullseye (Colin Farrell), who embraces every stereotype about the Irish, (namely that they have really good aim) and Michael Clarke Duncan, who plays against character for once, in his groundbreaking role as A Really Big Guy. He is thus able to leap off of skyscrapers and land on the ground without shattering his tibias. In short, it is because of you, yes you, that the film Daredevil darkens our world.ĭaredevil tells the story of lawyer Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck), who due to a childhood accident involving toxic chemicals has no fear. The massive success of these two movies convinced studio execs that the public was desperate for any and all things Superhero. Several years ago, it is quite likely that you were one of the millions who bought a ticket to see X-Men or Spider-Man in the theater. Skip the endless reruns of The War at Home and treat your whole family to the RiffTrax experience! This RiffTrax was written and performed with the whole family in mind, so if you are comfortable with your children watching Lord of the Rings, this should be perfectly appropriate for them as well. It does however, work for both the single side and doubled sided versions of the Theatrical Release. This RiffTrax is only compatible with the Theatrical Release, not the extended edition. Mike Nelson and special guest riffer Kevin Murphy go after the ultimate comedy prize in this very special two-part RiffTrax. The Fellowship of the Ring, the thrilling tale of some short guys, some slightly taller hairy guys, some thin, fey, but slightly taller guys, some grungy, somewhat beefier, slightly taller guys, and a frighteningly hairy, older, slightly taller guy with a stick, and their quest to throw something somewhere hot. And not A Very Unlucky Leprechaun – which we haven't done yet but are seriously mulling over. The greatest fantasy epic of all times is at last a RiffTrax! No, not Crossroads – we already did that. You'll scream, you'll laugh, you'll jump out of your seat! (And then you should probably start watching the movie).

Because he was too chicken to sit in the dark and watch it by himself, Mike enlisted the help of his old pal Kevin Murphy for this hilarious RiffTrax. (A technique now widely used by custodians the world over.)įeaturing the blood curdling theme song by director John Carpenter in which he hits a G on a piano key 900 times, then a C about 738 times and then hammers on the G for a time before hitting a G# and then starting the process over again and repeating it several hundred thousand times. But in a respectable 2nd place, anyway, is Halloween, the horrifying tale of an evil madman named Mike Myers (as if his Simon character wasn't chilling enough) who terrorizes a babysitter by putting on a jumpsuit and hiding in the hedge.

Ghost not being able to get pregnant because Mr. The most shocking Halloween-related thing ever - with the possible exception of the joke about Mrs. Can they rekindle their friendship? Will they reform their circus/bartender act? Will they get a job together tossing chicken strips around at a Carl's Jr.? When Coughlin betrays his partner, Brian flees to Jamaica, puts on a cheap, Qiana jungle print shirt and resumes his half-baked act there, soon bedding down the improbably named Jordan Mooney (Shue). When young Brian Flanagan (Cruise) is discharged from the Army and quickly discovers that he has few job prospects, scant talent, and no discernible intelligence, he exercises his only real option and gets a job at a TGI Fridays, whipping around bottles of Blue Curacao and serving deep-fried broccoli balls to people wearing suspenders. Tom and Nicole's wedding night? No, this is the thrilling plot of Cocktail, starring Cruise, Bryan Brown, Kelly "Road House" Lynch and Gina "Showgirls" Gershon.

A drunken Australian councils a young Tom Cruise on life, love, and female undergarments.
