Hope season 5 would make a comeback after 4, it had a strong start but this is getting worse and worse
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I thought this was really funny. The GoodFellas spoofing reminded me of that episode of Community with the chicken fingers.
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[6.3/10] This one didn’t do much for me. I can appreciate the lunacy of mashing up the likes of Voltron and Goodfellas, along with any number of other anime shows and gangster movies. This episode couldn’t make much out of the cross-pollination though.
The only decent throughline in this one is Morty feeling demoted for being a killjoy and while Rick takes a shine to Summer for enabling him. But trying to play their respective rise and fall through a Henry Hill-style voiceover runs out of gas quickly. There’s something to be said for translating Goodfellas’ message to Morty’s circumstances -- that sticking your neck out for this “organization” is a losing effort. But then it circles back to a “you get the family you get” type of message of mutual support which, while mildly rousing, feels weird when that family is the head of an interdimensional crime syndicate riding a “giant incest baby”.
And seriously, I could do without that ever coming back to the show again. I tend to appreciate the series referencing its own continuity, despite how fluid it keeps things given the dimension-hopping. But having this whole thing come back to that, replete with a montage where Summer’s only so out for Rick’s approval after being compelled to help train it and bond with it, seems like an odd shortcut to the whole thing.
To boot, dramatizing the idea of Rick never knowing when enough is enough by showing him how he has to keep turning voltrons into more and more elaborate voltrons is amusing for a second, but likewise feels exhausted pretty quickly.
That said, some of the gags here are solid. I like the absurd mishmash of gangster-y Ricks from other dimensions. The inclusion of a “Yo-Yo Rick” who’s cool because he owns it is an inspired capper. The Speed Racer-esque kids didn’t do much for me, since the anime spoofs are pretty thin, but I did like that the running voiceover gags were due to little “voiceovarian” slugs in Morty and Summer’s brains.
Overall, definitely the weakest outing of the season for me, but one that maintains a few good laughs despite being a cut below story-wise.
Great homage collection this ep. I lost it when she called the baby Naruto. So ridiculous, so good.
This episode had to be the worst of the season, maybe the worst of the whole series so far
alright already with the references
Excellent, and I only watched Voltron a few months ago so all the better.
The only good thing about this episode was the title, the rick gun that shouts bang and the post-credit scene. A pretty big dropoff in quality
only, and ONLY Voice makers have the divine right to parody anime.
it is a Brazilian YouTube channel that makes anime parody
I loved Power Rangers Wild Force back then, it was really fascinating to me.
Space Odyssey, Naruto, The Godfather and Scarface references. This one's pretty lame. The whole Gundam thing was pretty stupid especially for Rick. Boob world got a song though and that's definitely overlooked. All in all pretty boring but the space baby gets seen again and it has one of the best post-credit scenes so that's something.
Goodness this was rough. Extremely boring and annoying Goodfellas parody. Everyone in the family is so out of character and unlikeable, it really takes me out of it. For an actually good take on the concept, watch Community Season 1 Episode 21 "Contemporary American Poultry", which parodies the same film and is also done by Dan Harmon, but actually does so in an entertaining and fun way.
after credits saved this episodes rate:drooling_face::drooling_face::drooling_face::drooling_face:
A spoof of superhero movies , Transformers, Fast And the Furious and anime sounds good on paper but this was just a mess.
The post credits scene was hilarious, though.
All the previews and clips of this episode looked interesting. It's a super interesting premise. It's just a shame that aside from an interesting premise, Rick and Morty does Voltron, the episode just kind of flops instead twisting into a Casino parody. At that point it's mostly too abbreviated to be more than just recognizable and not really interesting. The clips and previews we've been seeing all still work but things like the FBI replacement characters (the real Anime characters), feel far more gratuitous than again interesting.
It's a shame this is the episode I was most looking forward to and so much of it just felt reductive. Like having both a rick that's a version of Tony Montana AND having a final scarface scene.
In the post they fret and frown over how much scale there is in this episode but there isn't really. There was more scale in the meatballhead uncertainty principle episode. The animation here isn't that interesting. They talk about how many different versions of Beth and Jerry have to be created but all the family members look the same. There's no design work. The only thing different is the Ricks. It actually would have been more interesting if the family members took on their rick's features. As in Fat-Faced Rick would have a Fat-Faced Morty and the entire family would also likewise be Fat-Faced. It's not as if we haven't seen the Mortys come in different flavors. The voltrons are supposed to scale up as in 5 voltrons form a super-voltron with each voltron forming a body part but when this happens it looks exactly like a normal voltron. There's no careful animation showing for instance than the right arm is made up of 5 lions thus each arm is multicolored to show it's makeup of a full voltron. it's just one big voltron. There's actually a lack of scale you never feel like anything is bigger. The grid shot where you see five headshots showing five voltrons has all the family members in place when instead it would make more sense and be more interesting to see the placement by body parts. [Right Foot, Right Arm, Head/Body, Left Arm, Left Foot]
Reviewing the producer comments on the Inside the Episode (https://youtu.be/k6WR_lmExqs), there's a scene at about 0:22 where everyone is flying out in hexes and it's even lazier than the aforementioned scene. In this scene there's a series of hexes flying out but in every hex it's the same, Morty-Yellow, Summer-Red, Beth-Blue, Jerry-Green. They're all identical in identical poses every time. Clearly they were copy and pasted around randomly occasionally flipped. Lazy animation is fine but it's weird that they would insist that this episode was so harrowing. When clearly they cut corners, that they didn't cut on A Rickle in Time back in Season 2, or even The Ricklantis Mixup, in Season 3.
The visuals are amazing which would be great if thats the reason I liked this show...
Casino times five...?
It's a classic but I couldn't finish a second viewing...yet.
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This is the worst anime I’ve ever watched
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This is So much yawn :sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:
I’ll admit that after credit scene was good tho