Reviews

This is one of my favourite YouTube series at the moment. It's low in quality, but highly entertaining. For those who aren't familiar with the concept of this, the hosts (Brian Firkus aka Trixie Mattel and Brian McCook aka Katya Zamolodchikova), during each episode, talk about different topics, ranging from death to their experience on RPDR and RPDR All Stars to Crime or Traveling, etc. The way these two interact with each other is very amusing to watch. There's not much going on quality or production wise, as the hosts just sit in front of a green screen on chairs, talking about anything that comes to their mind, with edits here and there to make their conversations and thought process even more interesting.

When I saw the first two episodes of this series, I at first had my doubts. I thought that this would be another knock off, ''high school drama'' kind of thing, and I almost stopped watching, but I was proven wrong. The show is hilarious and has the right mixture between humour (for some, some of this humour might be a little offensive I guess), great scripts, moral lessons and drama. It's not out of proportion or overdone. At first, I didn't quite get the character choices, but I can really appreciate the exaggerated characters. Each of them has their own distinctive character and personality and catch phrases. Despite their differences, they make a great group of friends and their love-hate relationships makes them extremely likeable. I love Abeds character and his punchlines and words, and their delivery. It's always spot on. And as random and 'weird' some of his remarks are, it makes him very likeable and real. I appreciate the cast of this series so much, as each of them has a different roll in it. From professor/student Chang (who is responsible for a couple of great memes), to Britta Perry, Troy Barnes, Abed Nadir, Jeff Winger, Annie Edison, Pierce Hawthorne, Shirley Bennet to characters who get less screen time such as Vaughn, Dean Craig Pelton, professor Ian Duncan and Alex 'Starburns' Osbourne, every one of them makes this series complete. I admire how even the less big characters are easily recognisable based on their appearance and characters/personalities. I was pleasantly surprised with the appearance and the acting of Jack Black in episode 13, season 1, and in general with Donald Glovers performance as Troy Barnes. I thought it was smart of the makers to not emphasize on Glover's musical abilities too much and make that his personality trait. Instead, the musical aspect of the series was given to Pierce more than Troy (Donald).

The only thing I would say, is that the end of the show sometimes gets a little predictable, at least in the sense that they change their mind and do the right thing. But that's not bad criticism at all and this doesn't make it any less watchable. I would also say that the characters sometimes get a little too childish in their behaviour, but at the end of the episode they always realize their wrongs and make it right. Lastly, very few times it takes some effort to watch through the different episodes, as it can feel as if not much is happening (but the reality is, that there's a lot going on all the time), but overall this is very watchable. I easily watched 4 or 5 episodes if not more in a row. That should say something about this series.

This movie was okay to watch. The humor in this movie is low in quality but makes you laugh anyways, because most of the jokes and the humor used in the movie is so bad that it's good. I guess that's how you can describe this movie: so good that it's bad. I don't want to discredit anyone who worked on this movie, because it doesn't get lost on me how much work, time and effort goes into making a movie. The keyplayers for this movie were the actors, especially Christina Applegate and Skyler Gisondo and Steele Stibbs (the two guys who played the boys). Besides from the humor (which at times felt a little out of place or overkill), there's not really a big character development happening besides from some lukewarm ones, or a big storyline. The entire movie is about a family changing their vacationplans and the entire trip going wrong untill the family reaches their destination and find out that everything wasn't as bad as they thought because they could ride this one rollercoaster. I guess you can expect that from this kind of movie.