Alright, you primitive screwheads, listen up!

Rating: 10/10 (15 January 2013)

WELCOME to the land of fantasy! We aren't just talking about the goody- little-two-shoes and the skeletons moving with fishing line and the heli-Oldsmobile. We aren't just talking about the cheap, immovable mask on the flying demon and pretending that trying to say the line "Sally forth" three times is funny, because he got his face blown off. We aren't even talking about the mini-Ashes or the horrible, horrible sword-fighting choreography. That's the obviously cheap stuff. I mean FANTASY, where Ash burns the minis with "hot chocolate", then has eyes growing out of his shoulder. It's being able to do advanced chemistry in the 13th century. It's "gimme some sugar, baby." It's pit demons that fight an awful lot like experienced bar brawlers dressed as a witch, and wind up their punches like a Looney Tunes skit. It's Tha Boomstick. Later, it's S-mart evidently carrying Winchester repeating rifles, fully loaded in the store, with about a hundred round tube capacity. I'm talking some major plot points that are purposefully absurd.
It's completely and totally ridiculous, and completely and totally awesome. Bruce Campbell, king of all B-movies, knows exactly how to play it, and Raimi knew precisely what he was doing. There are great shots, and a gleeful inventiveness not found in almost any other movie I've seen. It's brilliant, a classic. I love this film; it's probably one of my favorites. If you take it seriously, you're a moron, and if you can't enjoy it at all, your soul is dead and you need to go find it. Just remember the words, "Klatu-verata-nektu". Well, repeat them...