Ticketverse Throwbacks #6: Tube Almighty
Now that we've spent the week creating the Universe, let's look at what happens when a comedian tries to control it.
FROM SW@ Ticket #52: Tube Almighty (July 24, 2006): Back in 2003, there was a little comedy in which Jim Carrey played a man who felt he was being screwed by God on an hourly basis until God decided to take a vacation and put him in charge of the universe, supernatural powers and all.
After Bruce's selfish misuse of God's powers, the world goes to hell and he learns a valuable lesson about the human spirit, will, blah, blah, blah. Oh yeah, it's really funny, too; did I forget to mention that part?
Anyway, Bruce Almighty is old news. Time to review the 2006 incarnation of Goofy: Master of the Universe. This time around, Jim Carrey is replaced by Adam Sandler, Morgan Freeman's God by Christopher Walken's Morty (who, in a slightly delicious play on the Latin lexicon, turns out to be the Angel of Death), and God's powers by (here's a play on words you'll never see coming) "a universal remote that remote-controls your universe." The flesh and flash may be different, but the bones are very much the same: slacker comes into possession of some super-cool mojo and gets much enjoyment out of punishing his enemies and bestowing extravagances on his friends and family when all they need is love (bup-badubada) to comic effect, slacker notices mojo getting out of control and his world as he knows it going to pieces, slacker wakes up after divine intervention as a new man (in Click, Newman just happens to be the slacker's last name; imagine that). Happy-Madison alums such as Rob Schneider (unrecognizable in the beginning as an Arab businessman), Henry Winkler (The Waterboy's Coach Kline), and Sean Astin (Drew Barrymore's roid-using bro in 50 First Dates) make cameo appearances to further the comedy, Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) is the to-hot-for-goofball wife, and David Hasselhoff is the straw-man boss subjected to physical and gastrointestinal abuse for his cartoonish meanness. As a Happy-Madison production, Click hits all the right buttons.
But comedy aside (heck, comedy included), it's a cinematic rerun.
C+
If the Lyric Fits:
"On those Saturdays when kids go out and play,
Yo I was up in my room I let the stereo blaze,
Wasn't faded, not jaded
Just a kid with a pad and pen and a big imagination.
All this, I seek, I find
I push the envelope to the line,
Make it, break it, take it
Until I'm overrated
Click, Click, BOOM!"
-Saliva, "Click Click Boom" (Duh)
Just for fun, and because throwbacks, here's the official music video for that song:
Remember to do your own clicking to comment, like, share, subscribe, and give the internet's version of junk mail some attention so my ad revenue can go up. Tomorrow night, we get back to the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective, so stay tuned.
Click-it-master,
out.
FROM SW@ Ticket #52: Tube Almighty (July 24, 2006): Back in 2003, there was a little comedy in which Jim Carrey played a man who felt he was being screwed by God on an hourly basis until God decided to take a vacation and put him in charge of the universe, supernatural powers and all.After Bruce's selfish misuse of God's powers, the world goes to hell and he learns a valuable lesson about the human spirit, will, blah, blah, blah. Oh yeah, it's really funny, too; did I forget to mention that part?
Anyway, Bruce Almighty is old news. Time to review the 2006 incarnation of Goofy: Master of the Universe. This time around, Jim Carrey is replaced by Adam Sandler, Morgan Freeman's God by Christopher Walken's Morty (who, in a slightly delicious play on the Latin lexicon, turns out to be the Angel of Death), and God's powers by (here's a play on words you'll never see coming) "a universal remote that remote-controls your universe." The flesh and flash may be different, but the bones are very much the same: slacker comes into possession of some super-cool mojo and gets much enjoyment out of punishing his enemies and bestowing extravagances on his friends and family when all they need is love (bup-badubada) to comic effect, slacker notices mojo getting out of control and his world as he knows it going to pieces, slacker wakes up after divine intervention as a new man (in Click, Newman just happens to be the slacker's last name; imagine that). Happy-Madison alums such as Rob Schneider (unrecognizable in the beginning as an Arab businessman), Henry Winkler (The Waterboy's Coach Kline), and Sean Astin (Drew Barrymore's roid-using bro in 50 First Dates) make cameo appearances to further the comedy, Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) is the to-hot-for-goofball wife, and David Hasselhoff is the straw-man boss subjected to physical and gastrointestinal abuse for his cartoonish meanness. As a Happy-Madison production, Click hits all the right buttons.
But comedy aside (heck, comedy included), it's a cinematic rerun.
C+
If the Lyric Fits:
"On those Saturdays when kids go out and play,
Yo I was up in my room I let the stereo blaze,
Wasn't faded, not jaded
Just a kid with a pad and pen and a big imagination.
All this, I seek, I find
I push the envelope to the line,
Make it, break it, take it
Until I'm overrated
Click, Click, BOOM!"
-Saliva, "Click Click Boom" (Duh)
Just for fun, and because throwbacks, here's the official music video for that song:
Remember to do your own clicking to comment, like, share, subscribe, and give the internet's version of junk mail some attention so my ad revenue can go up. Tomorrow night, we get back to the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective, so stay tuned.
Click-it-master,
out.
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