MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge – Season
Two
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C- Episode: C
Oh joy, another
season of MXC! [rolls eyes]
Back for another go is MXC: Most
Extreme Elimination Challenge – Season Two.
The series basically takes a bad Japanese Game show and dubs over all of
the contestants and announcers voices in an attempt to put a humorous spin on
something that is painful to begin with; not only for the contestants but for
the audience to watch. Granted when this
series was first introduced mostly anyone who viewed the series was intrigued
by the though of a person smacking their head off a log (I guess it is like the
Romans feeding the lions), but the curiosity soon diminishes.
The
contestants go through round after round of goofy and painful challenges in
order to win God knows what and to this reviewer it is just plain boring. Many films and series have poked fun at the
idea of bad dubbing, but there is satire and then there is MXC. MXC is pure nonsense that some may find humorous, but this reviewer
thinks that Japanese game shows are ridiculous enough without someone else
putting their two cents in.
The
technical aspects of this set are simple and to the point. The picture is an obvious celebration of
mediocrity with an intentionally bad picture, almost seeming to be an analog
color VHS in its 1.33 X 1 Full Screen image.
The dubbed voices in the series are also intentionally muffled and
distorted to fit the B-movie feel with a sound that is presented in a simple Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo. The sound is almost
as annoying as the series, at first even this reviewer found the bad sound
quality and American voice dubbing entertaining, but that novelty wears out
quickly. The extras are sparse and bad
offering up such features as Kenny Blankenship’s Most Painful Moments, a Behind
the Scenes Featurette, and an Original Episode of Takeshi’s Castle entitled
simply ‘episode #61.’ Overall the
picture is purposefully bad, the sound is purposefully bad, and the extras are
just sad. If this reviewer wanted to
observe bad quality DVDs he would hit up the $1 bin at a chain store.
This set
is a definite pass for this reviewer. If
the redundant nature of the series itself does not dissuade you from purchasing
this set, the bad picture and sound quality should. Now it is time to extremely eliminate this
from my memory.
- Michael P Dougherty II
