Classic dumb fun, righteous entertainment...

Rating: Null/10 (30 June 2003)

You know those times when you're with friends when everything is meshing and mixing just exactly and everything said and done garners a round of laughter just because your so bloomin' happy to be right here at this moment? That's the mood you want to watch this movie. If you want serious cinema, wait. If you want perfect special effects, wait. If you carry even a smidgen of cinematic snobbery, never ever watch this film. To all the whiners about this movie I'd ask them to imagine, on their own, without copying other films (I'd explain the differences between copying, tributes and parody but it wouldn't do any good)a trilogy like the one this film caps. I mean imagine every detail, shot, joke, effect, etc.
This was a coup for Raimi. Few have made this happen.
Wild. Madcap. Insane. Deliciously over acted. So over the top it ends up peeking at its own behind.
There are enough one liners in this film, that if one memorized them, a conversation in any situation could be constructed using only the film's quips.
This film always makes me recall "Return of the Living Dead" though that film works with a darker humor. However, they both share common origins, Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", an important turning of corners in horror.
Innovators who turn corners are at first copied, to cash in on the talents of others, then, respectfully utilized as springboards to take original and gutsy ideas in other directions. A sincere flattery.
Ten years hence, twenty, this movie, and it's first two installments, will be picked up on the dime sized dvds of the future and watched by friends gathered where everything is mixing and meshing just exactly and everything said and done prompts peals of laughter because everyone is so bloomin' glad to be in the moment.
If you don't understand about those moments, I am truly sorry.
Great entertainment, killer fun film, laugh, jump, shriek, jab your elbow into your neighbor's ribs, moan, enjoy. If only all of us could drop off something like this as we passed through.
Hail to the king, baby.