[7.2/10] As Rick himself puts it at one point, this is pretty out there, even for Rick and Morty. But it’s an entertaining, albeit insane romp of an episode, with some transgressive humor that starts to feel childish and puerile in places, but also has a bit of cleverness to the odd places it goes.
I can appreciate the minor throughlines here. Morty being unwilling to admit that he’s the cause of the mutant sperm attack because it’s so embarrassing is weird, but adds some kind of personal component to a very strange story. Likewise, Summer and Beth having ideas to help save the day that get dismissed or coopted by the men in the room, forcing them to ultimately take charge is a good strain of humor.
But really, this is just a heaping dose of R&M going wild in mashing up tropes with the writers’ deranged comic sensibilities. Mutant sperm. Underground horse people. A semen Queen a la the Borg from Star Trek. A friendly little sperm guy a la How to Train Your Dragon. An army of rhyming equestrian warrior doing battle alongside various Las Vegas performers. It’s all just a bucket of randomness, but there’s some good lines and good laughs, so it succeeds as much as it needs to.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2022-03-09T04:02:15Z
[7.2/10] As Rick himself puts it at one point, this is pretty out there, even for Rick and Morty. But it’s an entertaining, albeit insane romp of an episode, with some transgressive humor that starts to feel childish and puerile in places, but also has a bit of cleverness to the odd places it goes.
I can appreciate the minor throughlines here. Morty being unwilling to admit that he’s the cause of the mutant sperm attack because it’s so embarrassing is weird, but adds some kind of personal component to a very strange story. Likewise, Summer and Beth having ideas to help save the day that get dismissed or coopted by the men in the room, forcing them to ultimately take charge is a good strain of humor.
But really, this is just a heaping dose of R&M going wild in mashing up tropes with the writers’ deranged comic sensibilities. Mutant sperm. Underground horse people. A semen Queen a la the Borg from Star Trek. A friendly little sperm guy a la How to Train Your Dragon. An army of rhyming equestrian warrior doing battle alongside various Las Vegas performers. It’s all just a bucket of randomness, but there’s some good lines and good laughs, so it succeeds as much as it needs to.