Fringe - Monday misfire

[dreamshark]

Angelina Jolie is a Zionist Whore! or, Plan 9 from Baghdad    * *
Partizan Theater

Well, now I guess we're even. Richard talked me into attending the very mediocre "Sidekicks" show, but I'm the one that was seduced by the glowing reviews into seeing this one.  I think Richard liked it a little better than I did, but he didn't think it was very good either. I can't imagine how it ended up with ratings of 4.5.  Does the cast have that many review-writing friends?  Here's the review I posted on the Fringe site. 

Three very stoooopid members of a terrorist cell in Baghdad bicker over how to spell "cupcake" and which way up to hold the camcorder. They speak in English, but with thick middle-Eastern accents. The cute young woman inexplicably wearing an "I *HEART* NY" t-shirt wants to change her name from Margaret to something more Iraqi sounding. Her colleagues are okay with that, but are too stooopid to remember her new name. Hilarity ensues - not. Eventually a large, loud American stumbles into their hideout, and they decide to take him hostage. It doesn't work out well. None of this is very funny. The actors are much better than their material, but that doesn't save this one-joke show.

Comments

[mle292.livejournal.com]

Wow. That sounds jingolicious.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I was trying to decide if it was actually racist or just juvenile. But I think "jingoist" covers it better.

Many of the enthusiastic reviews compared it to "Hogan's Heroes." They seemed to think this was a compliment.