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Hercules Has Seen Comedy Central’s Fantasy Parody KROD MANDOON!!
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I am – Hercules!!
A yappy, wearying and mostly unfunny series that attempts to make sport of, among other things, “The Lord of the Rings,” “Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire” was created by Peter Knight, whose credits include UPN’s “Sweet Valley High” and “Breaker High” and Fox Family’s “Big Wolf On Campus.”
The title character is played by Sean Maguire, the fitness-model-like actor who played King Leonidas in 2008’s big-screen “300” parody “Meet The Spartans.”
An unusually expensive-looking series for Comedy Central, “Krod” is in no danger of making anyone forget about the less expensive-looking but utterly hilarious “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” which did this sort of thing with far more confidence and aplomb 35 years earlier.
Entertainment Weekly gives it an “C-plus” and says:
… The fantasy spoof's gags are infantile, but a John Rhys-Davies cameo brings class to a show that boasts a running joke about bestiality. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… reminiscent of Mel Brooks' later, more broad and less funny films (think: "Robin Hood: Men in Tights") …
The Boston Herald says:
… The show should be stamped with a warning label: It’s yet another dismal effort from Media Rights Capital, producers of ABC’s “Surviving Suburbia” and several short-lived CW shows. Go ahead and watch, but don’t blame me when brain matter starts to dribble out your ears.
The Boston Globe says:
… Very early in tonight's hourlong premiere, at 10 on Comedy Central, I wanted to find an escape hatch out of the relentless, mediocre spoofery that so desperately wants to remind us of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." …
Variety says:
… has the sword-and-sorcery look and trappings down, as well as a feel for the stilted dialogue and conventions associated with the genre. It's all so broadly played, though -- and, as underscored by Maguire's feature resume, has been done so many times before -- that even a less jaded audience is less likely to laugh lustily than simply nod along in recognition. …
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… The lines that are meant to pass for jokes in a fantasy-action spoof fall flat, and the series humps its one-note premise to death within 10 minutes, making the premiere episode one of the longer one-hour slogs in recent TV memory. …
10 p.m. Thursday. Comedy Central.
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Lame.
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Lame.
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Lame.
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Llama.
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Lorenzo lamas
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needs funnier title for starters.
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Man, all the talk backs should be in total harmony like this. It's so cool.
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Like most of comedy central.
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But I'm going to give it a look as I sat next to and chatted with the show's hottie at New York ComicCon's Watchmen presentation.
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oh hai!
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Other than South Park, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report there's not much else on there that's much good to watch.
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I'll be watching Warriors tonight, it's the Samurai episode.
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...but that Sean Maguire guy is UBER hot...
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I heard about it before I saw the commercials. Thanks for the warning, commercials.
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It looks like garbage
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Arguably, he and his spot-on Leonidas impression was the best thing in that movie. "Their vast numbers won't count for shit!"
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Arguably, he and his spot-on Leonidas impression was the best thing in that movie. "Their vast numbers won't count for shit!"
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Apr 09, 2009 12:35:48 PM CDT
Pittsburgh Post sucks!, Men in Tights is better then this crap!
by saen
Were men, manly men, were men in tights, tight tights!, we roam around the forest looking for fights!
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Wow...stealing jokes from Robin Hood: Men In Tights?
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or garbage.
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No such thing as too many wood jokes.
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Come on, Matt Lucas is in it, instant worth-a-look right there.
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I just watched it again last week and it still holds up remarkably. Fucking hilarious shit.
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For sure.
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I don't know, I actually thought most of the time that Maguire was on screen wasn't bad... thought he had a decent aloofness to him most of the time that was kind of funny and I liked his delivery of most of the jokes (and most of the jokes themselves were somewhat amusing)... where it really kind of lost me though was any time the main baddie was on... pretty boring there I thought, with just one or two OK moments. I'm not sure about this show yet, that's the bottom line for me... I sort of have a hunch there *could* be a decent enough show there, but I'm not certain they'll uncover it before it's canceled. Certainly never going to be great or anything, but could be amusing... I for one will give it another chance or two, but it'll be on a short leash for sure... my finger hovers over the DVR's Delete Program button, but I'm not ready to press it just yet :)
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Too bad she's a giant slut! Like the sword being on fire when he uses it.
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I agree. It was mildly amusing, but mostly just meandering. I'll probably forget to watch it next time. There were two laugh out loud moments. But maybe I was in a generous mood, despite my sinus headache. Tighter writing could save it, though.
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Before giving up and turning on a rerun of Scrubs. The Pope is considering me for sainthood for this.
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And do a Tek Jansen animated series?
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I get the impression that the writers aren't fans of epic fantasy/S&S. You get the sense of an outsiders thumbing their noses at stuff they just don't get or like, unlike the incisive yet affectionate mockery and familiarity of Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick toward pulp heroics, 60's super science, 60's, 70's, and 80's comics and cartoons, post-punk and goth music, and general geeky cool fixations.
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Honestly, I thought the show had some good moments, and I can see that there is a lot of potential for long-running humor once the context is set. I'll give it a few more episodes before passing judgment.
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This may become a very guilty pleasure for me as I watched the whole thing and actually laughed a few times-- not, like, out loud, but...Of course, I'm sick and nursing a twisted ankle, so mindless diversion was what I was after.
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and Jackson Publick.... wow that's a cruel comparison. I'm sure somebody's trying real hard with this. (I sort-of like the bad guy and his Stephen Fry's Jeeves-ish flunky)
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My wife has been saying it for years, and maybe this is the proof she needs. I enjoyed this show. Found it quite hilarious even. And, I am not one to go along with the masses, so I offer my opinion with no shame at all.
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So, it's like Gilmore Girls then?
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What can I say? I'm looking forward to the next episode at this point.
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