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Hercules Returns (1993)
Would have been funny forty years ago...if I was a beer-swilling, mono-browed homophobe
The previous reviews for Hercules Returns made a convincing case for hunting it down. Users were throwing in words like 'hilarious' and 'genius'; and assuring me of loss of bladder control a few minutes in.
However, the only amusing element in the first ten minutes was that this shambles attempts to introduce 'characters' and 'plot' into an okay concept for a movie: Take terrible source footage and overdub it.
I've watched a hundred and one Kung-Fu movies that seem to have been dubbed by the same five (utterly unconvincing voice actors SEE:Born Invincible or Shaolin Vs Lama). They make no attempt to make amusing quips and yet you find yourself in stitches regardless. All this film serves is to prove is that maybe 1993 was a bad a year for comedy the world over? Not so. I had a quick look and, although in some cases the jokes are a tad dated, 1993 was the year the that the following comedies were released:
Addams Family Values, Army of Darkness,Coneheads, Dazed and Confused, Groundhog Day, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Last Action Hero, Mrs. Doubtfire, Much Ado About Nothing, National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Wayne's World 2 and...erm...Weekend at Bernie's II.
The British are snobby and opinionated about their comedy, in that we like it to be funny, Hercules Returns falls way short of that even before the first gay joke becomes a torrent of dead laughs.
Example: - "What about that exotic dancer? Y'know, the one who does that act with the vacuum cleaner?" - "No, she sucks"
If this to you, is the absolute pinnacle of thousands of years of progress and written language, look no further, Hercules Returns is your comedy Grail...