So I suppose the real stars of this disc are the bumpers for 19, the former featuring Dr. While it should be noted that the 1995 marathon was previously released on the Night of the Blood Beast disc of Volume XVI, but they are repeated here (with Night of the Blood Beast segments thrown in for good measure). A lot of the Turkey Day stuff is more moments with our evil overlords (-wannabes). If you are eager for more Trace and Frank as the Mads, this is the disc for you. In this Turkey Day Marathon celebratory collection, Painted Hills may be the Turkey Day-iest disc of the bunch, as it wrangles up bumpers from three separate Turkey Days from Comedy Central. It’s okay, but it could be better.įeel the wrath of Lassie in Shout Factory’s Volume XXXI: Turkey Day Collection, with a great standard definition transfer and swell audio. There’s a lot of funny in this episode, but truth be told it kind of falls in the middle of “average” and “good.” I don’t give half ratings, because the older I get the more I find them to be a cheat, so I’m forced to round to the bottom on this one. Forrester uses Frank’s hard-pumping, unhealthy heart to power Deep 13.
The Invention Exchange amuses with the TalkBack tape recorder and the Cholester-Do-All, the latter of which is a great bit in which Dr. Hayes, and a discussion on how much the “gold” robot Crow is worth. Also featured is another debate on whether the girl in the short looks better messy or neat, a “lesson” on Rutherford B.
The host segments are mostly pretty good, with my favorite being the final moral debate of whether or not Lassie is a murderer. Faring a little better is the riffers giving Lassie a craving for “Snausages!” The riffing also grows darker as the film goes on, as death and murder start becoming more in the forefront of the story. I didn’t really laugh the first time, and it didn’t ripen with age. Not entirely helping is the “Pile-On Pete” running gag, as the boys mishear the name Pilot Pete and run with it. There are many moments in the riffing that are amusing, but it’s hard to not be a bit bored. Ultimately the issue I’m having with this episode is that while they liven the pace of the film, it’s just enough to turn it from a slow crawl into a leisurely walk of a film.
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When Joel and the bots find the movie at a far different pace, they at the very least keep their riff flow steady.
They pretty much nail the tone as the short finishes with “the end of the perfect day,” to which Joel points out “An entire day spent grooming.” The love to pick apart the exaggerated examples and poke at the anal retentiveness, as well as just playing with the production values in general. Joel and the bots aren’t afraid to get messy, as opposed to the short which is about cleaning up. The riffing highlight of the episode is the short, which is a goody offering with a shaming narrator bossing people around. What the movie does well makes it hard to dislike, it’s just not a movie worth writing home about either. But the characters are bland and the whole affair is very vanilla, and as a result the movie doesn’t hold attention very well. There’s lush frontier landscape and mountaintops that make for nice scenery, the story is somewhat interesting, and Lassie is still a wonderful performer as well. To judge The Painted Hills as its own movie it’s obviously a skilled production. I assume Lassie thought it was time to try something different and see if the crowd responded, like Charlie Chaplin and A Woman of Paris. But The Painted Hills treats “Lassie” (or Pal, as the dog was known on set) as an actor playing a role as opposed to a character. There’s a quite simple idea (or cliché) that we all expect a Lassie movie to be, and The Painted Hills is quite a bit bleaker and angrier story than the Lassie we all know and love. But the vengeful Shep tastes blood and vows vengeance. Jonathan’s greedy partner kills him in an attempt to keep the gold all to himself, and tries to kill Shep and little boy Tommy (NOT TIMMY AND NO HE DIDN’T FALL DOWN A WELL) to hide his secret. The Painted Hills follows a prospector named Jonathan and his pet collie Shep, who have finally struck gold. But since it’s the same dog from Lassie Come Home, of course it makes sense to cash in on the Lassie popularity. Technically the film isn’t even a Lassie movie, since it’s based on an unrelated novel called “Shep and the Painted Hills” and the collie is playing a male dog named Shep as opposed to Lassie.
The Painted Hills is the seventh “Lassie” film, and the last made before the popular canine was turned into a long running television series.
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