This is my third favorite episode of the show, it's Plucky Duck at his best or worst depending on how you look at it. I really like how the film is divided into two parts, where the first one we see Plucky's epic film. Another is where we see the making of the movie.
The first part we see Plucky's epic film and well all I can say is it's a movie. This film is just hilarious from beginning to end. This was a parody based on the historical explorer. What makes this even better is the fact this explorer is an alumnus of my collage "Pacific Lutheran University" so this episode was a cool nod to the PLU community. Anyway, back to the matter, really like the beginning credits of the film where we see just constant big bold titles of Plucky Duck's name, I thought "wow, egocentric much."
Let just say if you ever go on an expedition make sure you're not in Plucky's group as this guy isn't even close to being a novice. It's funny as we see he gets his dates mixed up as he makes his boat based on the historical explorer's expedition in 1977 and he makes the raft with some 70's relics from a car in the middle (surprised the raft could actually hold the automotive at all). 8 track tape of each group that were popular at the time and have now broken up, as well as what Plucky's disco outfit.
The expedition of course just goes from bad to worse, it's funny because some of those troubles he goes through are easy fixes and were most of the time his own fault; once again showing how Plucky can be smart and yet not. Really liked the scene when he keeps passing and taking the Captain position to either escape blame or steel credit, though seeing Hampton in the Captain position he no doubt made a better captain. Even one scene when Plucky just completely loses it, thinking he was way in over his head and ego as the expiation doesn't quite go his way.
The second part is the making of the movie which makes things even funnier on the making of his movie. We hear the fact that he didn't even read the autobiography he based his book on which explains a lot of things, though this could be a little referenced joke to Jodorowsky's making of "Dune" as he supposedly never read the source material when trying to make his vision of the story.
We see some of how troubled Plucky's production of his film truly is, from some of his not so hot directing or lack thereof. There is a hilarious scene where poor Hampton once again is made to do Plucky's work playing the stunt double (as if he's really convincing) of him in one particular scene where he has to mutter the three most deadly words "Ah, Mango Juice." And constantly get wacked by a falling bast repeatedly, it's more takes on one scene than in Kubrick's making of "The Shining".
This episode is an epic of epic proportions, well sort of.
Rating: 4 stars
The first part we see Plucky's epic film and well all I can say is it's a movie. This film is just hilarious from beginning to end. This was a parody based on the historical explorer. What makes this even better is the fact this explorer is an alumnus of my collage "Pacific Lutheran University" so this episode was a cool nod to the PLU community. Anyway, back to the matter, really like the beginning credits of the film where we see just constant big bold titles of Plucky Duck's name, I thought "wow, egocentric much."
Let just say if you ever go on an expedition make sure you're not in Plucky's group as this guy isn't even close to being a novice. It's funny as we see he gets his dates mixed up as he makes his boat based on the historical explorer's expedition in 1977 and he makes the raft with some 70's relics from a car in the middle (surprised the raft could actually hold the automotive at all). 8 track tape of each group that were popular at the time and have now broken up, as well as what Plucky's disco outfit.
The expedition of course just goes from bad to worse, it's funny because some of those troubles he goes through are easy fixes and were most of the time his own fault; once again showing how Plucky can be smart and yet not. Really liked the scene when he keeps passing and taking the Captain position to either escape blame or steel credit, though seeing Hampton in the Captain position he no doubt made a better captain. Even one scene when Plucky just completely loses it, thinking he was way in over his head and ego as the expiation doesn't quite go his way.
The second part is the making of the movie which makes things even funnier on the making of his movie. We hear the fact that he didn't even read the autobiography he based his book on which explains a lot of things, though this could be a little referenced joke to Jodorowsky's making of "Dune" as he supposedly never read the source material when trying to make his vision of the story.
We see some of how troubled Plucky's production of his film truly is, from some of his not so hot directing or lack thereof. There is a hilarious scene where poor Hampton once again is made to do Plucky's work playing the stunt double (as if he's really convincing) of him in one particular scene where he has to mutter the three most deadly words "Ah, Mango Juice." And constantly get wacked by a falling bast repeatedly, it's more takes on one scene than in Kubrick's making of "The Shining".
This episode is an epic of epic proportions, well sort of.
Rating: 4 stars