Rank-a-Riff

[bratpop]

Come on, the end is where the monkey penis joke was.

[Jak Crow]

Best. Riff. EVAR

[Nunyerbiz]

Found my old reauthored DVD in a pile while cleaning out the desk this weekend... Seeing I was in a Star Wars mood after watching a couple of New Hope riffs last week, I gave this one a revisit.

Seeing that I haven't seen either the ep1 or ep2 riffs in a long time, the consistent barrage of "Lucas is dumb" and "this movie sucks" didn't bother me at first... but it started growing a little tiresome by the midway point. In general, the riff was pretty hilarious when they stuck to the movie itself and not quite as hilarious when they decided it was time to beat the "Lucas sucks" dead horse. I gave it a 7/10. The riff had enough laugh out loud zingers to make it a classic, but those were somewhat offset by a lot of retread material that lost much of it's impact after the Ep1 riff.

[DimitryZ]

5/10, solely based on my opinion that this trax has the absolute worst joke ever featured in a Riff.

The biscuit joke. (Which took place in the Samuel Jackson and Palpatine fight.)

There are TONS of thing you can make fun of in that scene: Palpatine's awkward swordplay, the constipated faces, the gayest gasp and thrust combination, the cgi flip, Samuel Jackson. And you stopped acknowledging everything happening on-screen and introduce some biscuit gravy recipe, complete with fake eating sound effect which I always hate. Are you kidding me? (Don't answer that.)

And to top it all off, after the scene ends, they end the joke with "So what's happening here?" "No idea." This is a direct insult to your audience. You wasted 5 minutes just to deliver yet another "I don't care" joke? As if we don't have enough of them in ALL the prequel riffs. And there is already one in the first FIVE minute of the EP3 riff. This is lazy writing at its most glaring. And I mean George Lucas level of lazy writing.

Really, if you hate lightsaber and spaceships so much that you have to acknowledge your hate and the tedium EVERY TIME you saw as much as one spaceship on screen (they don't stop at the prequels either. They still do this in the original trilogy!), why even bother riffing Star Wars? In my opinion all prequel riffs are lazy, predictable, and joyless. I listen to the rifftrax for fun. Having already had enough negativity towards the prequel what I need is the extra joy rifftrax can bring me to make watching it again bearable. I do NOT need to share your hate with it too.

(The original trilogy riffs are much, much better though.)