Rifftrax Live! - Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza! (Legend Films Blu-ray)
Picture:
B Sound: B Extras: D Main Program: C+
What do
Christmas, black and white films and comedy have in common? From the people that brought you Mystery Science Theater 3000, get ready
for laughs with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett takes you with the
ghosts of Christmas past TV shorts in front of a live stage audience. The trio will riff and rant on what ideas of
what people used think of Christmas drama stories and if that is not enough
they are joined by comedian/songwriter/satirists, the legendary 'Weird Al'
Yankovic in Rifftrax Live! - Christmas
Shorts-Stravaganza!
The show
is mainly about how silly Christmas themes were back then, including a talking Christmas
tree, Christmas cartoons, Santa with a rocket man, children going to Santa's
shop, and a little girl's dream of her toys coming to life. Their comments point out at how scary would it
be if Christmas stories were a reality. If Christmas trees could talk and toys came to
life you wouldn't be singing or laughing ...but running away in fear that they
were haunted, and how Santa is more like creepy stalker if he could read the
hearts and minds of children and go anywhere.
It is Mystery Science Theater minus the
science theater, instead they make fun of spirit of Christmas or like MST3K with a old fashion nerdy holiday
improvisation then look no further, the three hosts make comments, dialogs and
fun of the various films as if they were the live audience. They change the mood of the films, making
funny movies seem scary and scary movies seem funny.
This
looks just fine for what it is, old films taped live as the trio comments on
them, so please take the sound and picture ratings in context, but the 1080p
image and decent sound make you feel more like you are there enjoying the
shorts being made fun of with them than if this were merely a DVD, so getting
the Blu-ray is worth it, especially since Weird Al is there and the color and
definition on some films look better. Extras
include behind the scenes slide show, but that is too little for me and more
would have been nice.
- Ricky Chiang
