Game Over - The Complete Collection | Elizabeth Daily, Rachel Dratch

Game Over - The Complete Collection | Elizabeth Daily, Rachel Dratch | At home with the video game characters

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Game Over - The Co...

	Game Over - The Complete Collection Elizabeth Daily, Rachel Dratch Starz / Anchor Bay, 2005 average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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Ever wonder what happens to your favorite video game characters after the game ends? The far-from-ordinary suburban Smashenburn family lives in an alternate video-game universe comprised of off-beat characters. Within this world of action heroes, monsters, and cartoon characters inspired by popular video games, the Smashenburns find unconventional ways to survive everyday issues.

Extremely entertaining!

We just rented this video and found it to be one of the best written shows we've seen in a long time. It's a shame it's not still running. As parents of teenagers, we found the humor quite funny yet it was pretty clean. You can safely watch it with a "tween" / teen. The NR rating was a bit daunting so we pre-screened some of it first and found it tamer than most PG/PG13 shows.

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At home with the video game characters

At the end of a long day of video gaming, all those characters have to go somewhere, right? This set of eight shorts, each the length of a TV slot, follows them home.

If "The Incredibles" hadn't already done something similar, only more clever, this would have looked a bit stronger. Still, it stands on its own well enough, and the child characters (teenage Alice and tweenage Billy) are are given better roles. Alice's attitude, in particular, has a lot going for it.

It has its clever moments, though. The CGI polygons are visible fairly often, reminding the viewer of the limits of 2004-era gaming hardware for PCs. The super-powered anime exchange student is good, too, as Billy's first crush. He's overawed when she flies him around, leaving a multi-colored trail behind her. When she has to go back to Japan (the country), he's heart-broken.
Dad: You'll meet other girls.
Billy, inconsolable: Will they shoot rainbows out of their butts?

It's funny, entertaining, and thoroughly forgettable. So, if you have an evening you don't plan to remember, give it a shot.

//wiredweird

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Good comedy

If you were heavy into video games in the late '80s and early '90s, then you'll understand and enjoy this series. I liked it when it was first on and never understood why it didn't last. Unlike many shows, it was funny without becoming vulgar, cute without becoming sickening.

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