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Review: Psycho Beach Party

I love campy movies.

There… I said it. Now that’s out on the table and I can relax and tell you about this movie I watched last night. “Psycho Beach Party” would make an excellent choice for you to watch at your next “Inappropriate Movie Night” or other movie-watching gathering.

This film has it’s tongue firmly planted in its cheek. Its intention is the skewer 50′s beach party movies, 60′s thrillers, and 70′s slasher flicks. It hits the mark on many levels. While it sounds like a absurd premise, rest assured… it is. But it is done well.

Do not expect this movie to be gut-busting funny, nor an academy-award winner. It is a camp-filled beach-party, surf-fest, slasher flick with no gore, minimal nudity, and some of the most gloriously corny dialogue ever. Plus, throughout the movie, you’ll recognize a vast majority of the actors, but won’t be able to place the names… at least, i wasn’t able to.

All in all, I enjoyed this movie. The plot is horrendous… the acting is amusing… the music is accommodating… just go into this one with an open mind. It is B-rated camp to a tee.

Psycho Beach Party is unrated. Released in 2000. I give it 7 out of 10.

For more information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206226/

July 28th, 2006 | Category: Movies | Leave a comment

Review: Galaga [XBOX 360]

I was a little slow in downloading the new XBOX Live Arcade game this week. Galaga was released Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 to much fanfare. I waited anxiously while the 15 meg game was delivered through the interweb to my 360. I was thinking back to the good times I had playing this game in the arcade… how many quarters I had lost… how many ships I had saved.

Those good memories translated poorly once I opened the game. I was greeted to slick opening images, decent menu system, and annoying sound effects. The game touted 720p HD resolution, which succeeded in showing in crisp detail the pixellated goodness of the original arcade game. Maybe I was wrong to expected updated graphics and sound effects.

And the gameplay… you move left and right, and press a button to fire. How could this not feel right on a controller? I am not sure how, but they succeeded in doing this as well. And it seemed more sluggish than I remember.

All in all, I was not impressed with this release. I’d save your 400 points for another Live Arcade game (like Clonin’ Clyde, Frogger, or the eagerly anticipated Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting… more on that next week, hopefully.)

Review: 4 of 10.

July 28th, 2006 | Category: Games | One comment