i agreed with you.he's kind of annoying to me. his jokes are bland and boring by making pop culture references and the camera editing is horrible.(one example in his smurfs 2 review when he use the scene where the smurfs falls down he uses over and over again for the song "my heart will go on" FOR A MINUTE.) and let's not forget the opinions here, (in his review of Sky high and Zoom he was given a point of which movies is horrible(the opposite knockoff of Doug's old vs new.)instead of saying one movie sucks,he blandly RECOMMENDED the incredibles!)it was one of the most stupid episode EVER!
To me he's someone I would watch if I'm looking to kill time, but I wouldn't actively seek out his videos. Is that about the sort of level you mean by serviceable?
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ERod's review show is entertaining enough in its own right with the exception of one detail that makes me really cringe while watching them. The premise is that he was given these weapons from "the fans of cinema" to "bust" movies he hates, which in itself isn't a bad concept, but in the videos they come off as contrived. I think the Nostalgia Critic reviews really spoiled me, as I think Doug has the best comedic acting out of any of the additional series' in Channel Awesome, but I see many of the same jokes being reused in the Blockbuster Buster, and he doesn't act as well. It doesn't look like he really means what he's saying, it looks like he's imitating a joke he saw earlier and is then praising himself in his head about how much of a great joke he just cracked.
He always destroys a movie at the end of his review, but... he only destroys the cover of the video/DVD he watched it on, and it's just one copy of every DVD of that movie in print, and after a while it gets very tiresome to see. If he hates those movies that much, why doesn't he actually do something more effective like write to the companies who made them? Oh right! Because he's just playing a ficticious character on a comedic review show with a limited budget! See the issue?
While this review only covers the issues I have with the series, I overall am entertained by them. They have enough material to keep me watching, so it's just a pretty good review show.