Ok, since I'm still awake when I should be asleep for work in the morning, I might as well finish up by reviewing these, since I redid my script while listening to them head to head...
Dragonball: Evolution
Quiptracks - Seriously, you WANT me to release mine? How can it compete? Good energy, good gags, good voices...what could mine possibly have to offer? The only real complaint is a couple of times there are some mumbled lines and a few that go by so fast I had to rewind and turn off the movie sound to catch it...and some even then I had to replay a time or two. But really, saying I missed a few quick jokes is the worst I can say about it.
Best Line:
Now, it may look loike fiah-bending, but it's nah. It's AIAH-bending. (The voice sells it, in all honesty...I rewound this one four times and stopped editing just to hear it again for GOOD reasons)
Team Four Star - It competes pretty well, but staggers a bit under a LOT of dead air towards the end of the track, a number of "How in the world did they screw this up?" "Well, it's because..." gags that sound too forced, and a few too many "Wow, this movie sucks" jokes. Not that it's a BAD track by any means, just...not AS good. You can tell it's a group that did this riff as a side project as opposed to being a 'professional' riffing group, but it is a lot better than a few I've heard crop up on the iRiff site from time to time.
Best Line:
She missed with a f^(&!ng car!
There, now I've listened to both and modified a couple of jokes in my own. I had two I was very sad to give up (if you've seen the movie, you'll know the context):
He landed on Sergeant Wilhelm.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the second half of the movie will be directed by Mr. Tim Burton.
I did find replacements, but one of these was too similar to a Four Star one, and the other a Quiptracks one. There are a few others, but they're not EXACT jokes, and some of them occur at different points in the movie than when I bring them up, so it's not too big a deal.
And just for reference for those who don't know, I originally wrote this in the summer of 2010, and just as I was about to record, Quiptracks released theirs, so I shelved it for a year. When I was about ready to consider trying it again, Team Four Star released theirs. So, now it's about a year later again, and I don't see any new versions on the horizon, so here, finally, I'm about to finish this sucker up this week. During this time, I also lost not one, but TWO people I was going to record this with (one of whom wrote jokes which will appear in the first few minutes of the script, and who I'm thankful to have worked with in the past), but I have found a third person who I will be recording with, so like Underworld this one will have a duo as opposed to just me.