Disclaimer: skin-flicks are a genre I am unfamiliar with, take this review with a pinch of borax.
I am quite a fan of Mythbusters, and only became aware of this production when it was admitted by the Mythbusters themselves that they knew of its existence. Curiosity took ahold.
The parodying of the Mythbusters format was excellent, and whilst the actors were not very good visual matches, the characters/personalities were at least reasonably recognisable. The voice-over and graphics added to the effect. Basically, all of the points go for this parody aspect.
The skin-flick aspect was very much for the camera - unnatural poses so that visibility was optimised - other production values were also taken into consideration, four fifths of it was well lit, for example. It was also almost entirely vanilla (not saying too much, but you will need an umbrella for one segment), and at that, to be honest, it was extremely boring. Misogyny level wasn't too high, but definitely non-zero; I think they think they were trying to keep it low, but I also don't think they succeeded well enough. I watched the whole thing from start to end in one go, I suspect that's not how it's supposed to be watched. It just seemed to drag out for ever. Sure, there's lots of red meat, but the fight sequences were dreadfully choreographed. I'm not entirely sure everyone even really knew what they were doing all the time.
Maybe a good movie for those into the genre, but not for me. Adam Savage is right to leave the copy someone gave him in its shrink-wrap.
I am quite a fan of Mythbusters, and only became aware of this production when it was admitted by the Mythbusters themselves that they knew of its existence. Curiosity took ahold.
The parodying of the Mythbusters format was excellent, and whilst the actors were not very good visual matches, the characters/personalities were at least reasonably recognisable. The voice-over and graphics added to the effect. Basically, all of the points go for this parody aspect.
The skin-flick aspect was very much for the camera - unnatural poses so that visibility was optimised - other production values were also taken into consideration, four fifths of it was well lit, for example. It was also almost entirely vanilla (not saying too much, but you will need an umbrella for one segment), and at that, to be honest, it was extremely boring. Misogyny level wasn't too high, but definitely non-zero; I think they think they were trying to keep it low, but I also don't think they succeeded well enough. I watched the whole thing from start to end in one go, I suspect that's not how it's supposed to be watched. It just seemed to drag out for ever. Sure, there's lots of red meat, but the fight sequences were dreadfully choreographed. I'm not entirely sure everyone even really knew what they were doing all the time.
Maybe a good movie for those into the genre, but not for me. Adam Savage is right to leave the copy someone gave him in its shrink-wrap.