Warburton’s Multimedia Entertainment Review.
Hello there! Welcome to the first edition of multimedia review. Every week I, Warburton, will review a book, a movie, and a television show, probably.
Today’s book is “The Letters of the Younger Pliny.” This book is not that great. It is a collection of letters of a Roman politician and barrister named Pliny. Pliny’s father was also named Pliny, thus the use of the adjective ‘younger’ when describing our Pliny. After the novelty wears of that everyone in the book has a funny name it becomes a coma enducer. The only bright spot in the whole text was when Pliny described the death of his uncle who was a sea captain. His uncle tried to rescue people from Pompeii when Vesuvius blew up, but he failed and died. Once I tried reading it to our plant, and she didn’t even like it. So I place this book at about a 17 on the goodness scale out of 1000. This puts it slightly ahead of books about philosophy, art, and Joan of Arc.
The TV show I chose to review this time was “Voltron: Defenders of the Universe.” Let me tell you this show kicks ass. It really has something to appeal to everyone. Its main characters are members of a futuristic fighting force which pilot lion battle robots. They fight a villain named Prince Lotor who unleashes evil robot/animals on the universe. The force, which includes just one female out of five members, were given the keys to the lions by some kindly mice who inhabit the planet of Princess Allura which is being attacked by Lotor in the first episode. They then discover that the lions can be joined together to form the huge and all-powerful super-robot Voltron. This robot wrecks house and everyone lives happily ever after. Scoring an 85 on my scale puts Voltron just below Thundercats, but above Transformers, a fine showing for a venerable old program that doesn’t get its due in this day and age.
Finally, I will revue the movie “Cannibal: The Musical.” This masterpiece came from the minds of the producers of South Park. They not only wrote but also star in this hilarious creation. The main character Alfred Packer (the real name of the only man ever convicted of cannibalism in the US) starts the movie in jail, on trial for eating his companions in a wilderness trek across the Rockies. He tells his side of the story to a news reporter who wants to know the truth. Packer and his companions which include his horse, Leanne, and four gold-miners, run into a plethora of strange situations, including the Cyclops, Samurai Indians, and a rowdy bunch of trappers. As the title suggests much of the movie is put to song which simply increases the comedy that this picture is packed with start to finish. Cannibal gets an 76 on my scale, not bad at all for a movie with a tiny budget made by college students from Utah.