Your sense of humour will never be the same again. The most straightforward and witty animation to ever have happened.
That was weird. Not the good kind of weird, though.
I was genuinely bored. I find the whole build up in this episode and presented story incredibly lacking, uninteresting and simply off.
Acting is overall great with Aaron Paul and Hugh Dancy in important roles, but that's basically it.
The whole episode tries to lure you in with its mystery aspects to keep you watching this show but, somehow, I don't find any of them in any way interesting at all. Reason for this is not that I didn't give it the benefit of the doubt being a new show and all but the lack of establishment of the characters you see and their world they live in. You've got no idea who they are, no explanations and only guess work on what is happening and that is not sufficient for what the episode tries to do in the first place. You don't get the time to care for the people this episode follows whatsoever and so you simply get no reason to. So, why should I care about any mysteries these characters struggle with and feel like they make no sense to me anyway?
In some ways it does feel like Aquarius meets Hulu.
Having a disguised scientology cult being the center of this is fine and all, but I am not going to bother with this, personally it's from the start not worth giving it even a single more episode of time. Something I rarely do.
But seems like a lot of people like it. Is it because of Aaron Paul? It's probably because of Aaron Paul.
(8-ish / 10) Most movies don't age well. There's a long, storied review pointing out the poorly aged parts of UHF. "What a travesty, it isn't a critical darling!"
In the context of today's media, everything has to make a point (which is a fact equally bemoaned by one of the last hurrahs of Drawn Together). UHF... won't make much of a point about anything if you're looking for that. It won't dare you to reconsider how we think about the world. You probably won't get all the one-liners done in the style of actors who originally said them. This isn't a hipster thing. This is a direct statement to the crowd more likely to watch it on Youtube than VHS.
But what the movie will do is entertain you for its span if you stop looking for something deep and brilliant and just appreciate the simple appeal of the humor. There's no subversive meaning. The most clever moment in the film is an exchange between the main character and the janitor:
(Approximately)
Janitor: Something on your mind?
Lead: You don't want to know.
Janitor: Uh - thinking hard Why did I ask?
What there is will be simple humor that is relatable and doesn't require a degree from the School of Arts to appreciate. A movie that doesn't really bother to preach to you and just focuses on being something for which you can turn off your brain and let it control the vertical and horizontal. And zany, off the wall, exaggerated characters that will remind you that Weird Al is someone we should all be thankful is in the world, and equally thankful is one-of-a-kind.
If you find Rick and Morty brilliant but unfunny... or you don't quite get Seinfeld, I suppose... you'll probably appreciate this movie. Just remember to turn your brain off and tell yourself: It's just a movie, and that's all it needs to be.
