Seasons: 3

Number of Episodes: 30

Years On Air: 2015-2018

Status: Cancelled

Distributor: Anchor Bay/Lionsgate Films

Genre: Horror/Comedy

Cast:
Bruce Campbell: Ash Williams
Ray Santiago: Pablo Simon Bolivar
Dana DeLorenzo: Kelly Maxwell
Lucy Lawless: Ruby Knowby

The legacy of The Evil Dead franchise goes back well over 35 years, when college friends Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell set out to make a small horror flick set in the woods.  In spite of the costs and being relatively new to making feature-length films, Sam Raimi crafted what has since become a major cult classic in every sense of the word.  From it’s really creepy atmosphere, gruesome visual effects, and guerilla-style film-making to then-up-and-coming star Bruce Campbell’s performance, The Evil Dead was a surprise hit in 1981.  This was the film that would put future Spider-Man director Sam Raimi on the map and making Bruce Campbell a bonafide star in the process.  Because of the film’s success, Raimi and company went on to craft a direct sequel, Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn in 1987.  Featuring more gore and gruesome visual effects, the sequel opted to take a more light-hearted and comedic approach to the goings-on.  While it was still dark in tone, it still garnered a lot of laughs from the audience because of it’s sheer insanity.  Like the original film, Dead By Dawn would become very successful in its own right, with many people declaring it to be one of the best sequels ever made.  A lot of people even consider Evil Dead II to be the best film in the franchise.  There were plans for another sequel that was going to be called The Medieval Dead, but distribution and name rights to the first two films were yanked from Sam Raimi, so he had to approach another studio to get the film made.  A third film was made called Army of Darkness and a lot of folks consider it to be the weakest entry in the series, and….they’re not wrong.  Army of Darkness pretty much eschewed the horror aspect for a more action/comedy approach set in the Dark Ages.  Surprisingly enough, it actually worked and still ended up being a really fun time.  Over the following 20 years or so, rumors persisted of a fourth film, and even the film-makers and Bruce Campbell were taking a look at the idea, even though nothing came of it at the time.  In 2011-2012, Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi had announced a re-make of the original film that was going to be directed by newcomer Fede Alvarez and starring Jane Levy as Mia.  The re-make was released in 2013 to mostly positive reviews for taking the franchise back to its roots in horror.  A couple of years later, Bruce Campbell announced that he would be returning to the role of Ash Williams for a newly-conceived Starz television series called Ash Vs. Evil Dead.

One of the mistakes I feel I made when I reviewed the first 5 seasons of Game of Thrones was to tackle one season at a time.  While I don’t regret doing those, my approach to reviewing a TV series needed to be refined quite a bit.  For Ash Vs. Evil Dead, I’m going to be covering the entire show, because it’s only 3 seasons long.  However, instead of doing a thorough season-by-season review, I’m going to an overview of a series as it stands while highlighting key moments and episodes that represent the entire show as best as possible.  So, with that said, let’s get into it.  Ash Vs. Evil Dead picks up 35 years after the events of the original movie, and sees aging Ash Williams as an employee of a local hardware store.  While out on the town after work, he picks up a local girl for a one-night stand along with some alcohol and proceeds to have a good time.  Forgetting that he has the Necronomicon Ex Mortis in his possession, he inadvertently reads passages from the book and re-releases evil on the world.  That’s pretty much the gist of it, and the rest of the series is basically him and a couple of sidekicks trying to reverse what he did.  What follows is surprisingly gory, yet hilarious focusing on Ash being both a complete doofus and bad-ass at the same time.  We’re also introduced to new characters Pablo and Kelly as they are accidentally drawn into this horrifying situation.  What happens during the show is kind of what you would expect from a show with Evil Dead in the title.  People get possessed and die in unbelievably horrific and over-the-top ways, and you’ve got Pablo and Kelly wanting to actually fight the Evil with Ash just wanting to run and hide.  That’s an over-simplification of course, but that is the gist of what goes on, and more often than not, it’s really quite hilarious.

What I really love about this show, aside from Bruce Campbell coming back as Ash, is how the series expands on the lore of the Evil Dead universe.  We’re given more information about the evil force that’s been haunting Ash for decades as well as who was responsible for writing the Necronomicon in the first place.  Over the course of the show, we’re also shown what happens to people’s souls after they’ve been killed or possessed by the Evil.  It literally adds a whole new dimension to the Evil Dead universe.  The show also introduces us to a new group of characters who call themselves the Knights of Sumeria, who apparently have been battling this evil for centuries.  One of my favorite episodes is “Books From Beyond” in which Ash and his friends go to a bookstore that specializes in the occult and the strange and they try to summon an actual demon from Hell so they can get some answers on how to destroy evil.  The episode alludes to these ancient demonic beings known as The Dark Ones, which adds a layer of mystery as to why they exists and what they want.

Season two changes things up a little bit by forcing Ruby, a new character that was revealed to be a Dark One, to team up with Ash against a new demon called Baal.  Like the first season, season 2 has a lot of fantastic blood and gore and throws in a few interesting twists here and there.  Some of my favorite episodes take place in an asylum where Ash is trapped by the demon Baal who takes the form of a doctor.  These are interesting episodes you have no idea if whether or not Ash has been hallucinating or if everything was real.  It was a very cleverly written plot device that kept me guessing.  Season 2 had some really spectacular moments peppered throughout.

Season 3 is where my problems with the show start happening.  The season starts off pretty strong, but it kind of sags in the middle with a lot of things just repeating themselves.  Ash himself was starting to get on my nerves a bit.  I understand the character was a bit of a bonehead and most of the time pretty likable, but there were moments throughout season 3 where I’m left scratching my head a little bit.  The humor also ended up being pretty juvenile in some ways.  We learn in this season that Ash has a daughter, Brandy and she’s become a target for Ruby and the Evil.  Story-wise, season 3 is actually pretty strong.  Yeah, Ash is a goofball, but we find out that he’s a father and he actually tries to be the best father he can be in the short time that he’s known his daughter, and that aspect of the season is really good.  We finally get to see Ash evolve somewhat as a character and that makes for a more compelling experience.  Overall, the third and final season is filled with both very strong and very weak elements, making it more of a mixed bag.  I understand that the producers weren’t sure whether or not the series was going to get cancelled, so they tried to kind of cap off Ash’s story and to a certain extent, it’s successful, but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered.  Sadly, the numbers that Starz wanted to see didn’t happen and ended up going down, so they decided to cancel the show.  I’m ultimately not surprised, given how the season ended and how some elements just didn’t quite work.  Ruby, as a character, outstayed her welcome by at least a good season and a half.  That’s no fault of the actress, though, it’s just the way the character was written, and I think that’s part of why season 3 had issues.  The writers, I feel, wrote themselves into a wall with season 2, so there was no real good way to bounce back from that.

The acting is pretty good overall, with Bruce Campbell knocking it out of the park as he always does with Ash.  If you haven’t seen the first three Evil Dead films, go watch them.  They are fantastic.  I actually like how some of the actors and characters evolved over the course of the show.  Ray Santiago as Pablo is particularly interesting as this character who has a gift that he’s kind of suppressed until the demons start showing up.  He begins to embrace who he is and he becomes a bit of a bad-ass in his own right by the end of the show.  Same thing for Dana DeLorenzo, who plays Kelly.  Lucy Lawless is the other one that also steals the show at certain points.  She plays Ruby, who is revealed to be immortal.  I’ve always like Lucy as an actress, even when she was playing Xena back in the 90s.  She puts everything into whatever she’s doing and she’s an absolute blast to watch as a villain.  Over the course of the show, we have various actors show up in some surprising roles, like Lee Majors as Ash’s father and Ted Raimi as a hard-partying old friend of Ash’s.  Hell, even Ellen Sandweiss, who starred in the original movie, shows up in a cameo appearance.  There’s also a lot of throwbacks to the older films that are awesome and pretty much expected in a show like this.

So…what are my overall impressions of Ash Vs. Evil Dead?  I think if you are a huge fan of the original Evil Dead films, you’re going to find a lot to love about this show.  Maybe not in how it ends, but basically almost everything else up until that point.  Bruce Campbell is still hilarious as Ash and all the actors throughout the show are fantastic.  The visual effects and the gore are absolutely awesome.  It never gets old seeing Ash get hosed with blood.  It’s absurd to the point of hilarity, and that’s the point.  This show is freakin’ bonkers and it runs with it.  Yeah, the show stumbles here and there, but what show doesn’t?  I think the positives outweigh the bad and it’s just a hell of a lot of fun.  It’s just too bad that we’re not going to see any more of these characters, at least not in a TV show.  Bruce Campbell said at one point, that if the show was cancelled, he would retire from playing the character.  Apparently, though, he’s going to be voicing the character in an upcoming video game of sorts, but I don’t know too much about that right now.

So where does Evil Dead go from here?  It’s hard to say.  With the exception of the re-make film, Ash has been very central to the franchise for over three decades.  Replacing the character would take some serious thinking and some serious writing get it to work right.  It’s entirely possible that the character’s daughter could take up his mantle and that’s a pretty promising idea, I think.  I know that there’s been talk about doing a sequel to the re-make for years, but nothing’s materialized as of yet.  Ultimately, there’s a lot more to the Evil Dead universe than what the movies have shown us.  The show expanded on the universe in its own way, but we’ve also had video games and comic books that have told their own stories with Ash and his friends.  I think there’s a lot of potential in where the franchise could go.  Will we see another TV show?  I doubt it.  There were plans for a fourth season of Ash Vs. Evil Dead, but since the show was cancelled, those plans no longer matter.  Ultimately, though, I’m just glad we got to see Bruce Campbell play Ash Williams for one last ride and what a ride it’s been.  Hail to the king, baby!

My Final Recommendation:

Season 1: 9/10
Season 2: 8.5/10
Season 3: 8/10

Released: August 2010

Director: Alexandre Aja

Rated R

Run Time: 88 Minutes

Distributor: Sony Pictures/Dimension Films

Genre: Horror

Cast:
Elisabeth Shue: Julie Forester
Ving Rhames: Deputy Fallon
Steven R. McQueen: Jake Forester
Jerry O’Connell: Derrick Jones
Adam Scott: Novak
Christopher Lloyd: Mr. Carl Goodman
Richard Dreyfuss: Matt Boyd

Earlier this week, I had reviewed a new shark movie starring Jason Statham called The Meg, which was about a 100-foot megalodon that was terrorizing the ocean.  I gave the film a pretty favorable score, saying that it knew what kind of movie it was and it rolled with it.  But there were some missed opportunities in the film that really shouldn’t have been missed in a movie like that.  That was most likely to do with the PG-13 rating.  I understand why the studio did it, to get more people and families into theaters.  Great.  But there were moments in the film especially towards the end of the film where an R-rating really needed to be appropriate.  You have a 100-foot giant shark.  With that, you have opportunities for some serious bone-crunching, flesh-ripping carnage.  Alas, it was not meant to be, because the movie studio lacked a spine, so to speak.  The beach sequence at the end of the film should have been a gloriously gory and visceral experience that would have been crowd-pleasing.  It really would have.  Honestly, had Warner Bros taken a page from Alexandre Aja’s Piranha re-make from 2010, The Meg could have been so much more.  Speaking of which, I am reviewing the 2010 version of Piranha for you today.

It is Spring Break in the fictional town of Lake Victoria, Arizona.  The town’s population of 5,000 people has surged to 20,000 as college students from out-of-town show up to do what they do best in a party situation: Drink beer and get nekkid while listening to awful music.  Trying to contain the chaos is Sheriff Julie Forester and her team of deputies to try and keep the damage to a minimum.  Little do they know is that an earthquake had cracked open a previously unknown ancient underwater lake releasing thousands of ravenous piranhas.  The story is simple, straight-forward and keeps things moving at a rapid-fire pace.  Piranha is a loose re-make of the 1978 film which was already a Jaws knock-off, but still ended up being a pretty decent film in its own right.  This film by French film-maker Alexandre Aja is a different beast altogether.  It is a wonderful throwback to the horror movies of the 80s where they used to be really fun and gory.  Horror movies these days tend to be far too serious for their own good, so watching Piranha again is an absolute blast.

You can tell right when the movie starts that the movie is going to be all sorts of fun.  The acting in the film is pretty good and I’ll get to the main players in a bit, but I want to mention some of the cameos first.  The first one is Richard Dreyfuss.  If you recall, Mr. Dreyfuss played Matt Hooper from Jaws, so seeing him here playing another Matt is pretty awesome.  You’ve also got some pretty nifty cameos from folks like famed horror director Eli Roth as well as make-up effects master Greg Nicotero.  The one extended cameo that was pretty cool was Christopher Lloyd as an eccentric shop-owner that has some serious knowledge of prehistoric piranha.  Elisabeth Shue plays the town’s sheriff and she’s a bit of a bad-ass.  Ving Rhames is her second-in-command and Ving’s always fun to watch whenever he’s on screen.  Steven R. McQueen, who also happens to be the grandson of the legendary Steve McQueen, plays Jake Forester, the oldest son of the sheriff.  Adam Scott is fantastic as a scientist that showed up to investigate the earthquake and has some of the best line delivery in the film.  Jerry O’Connell plays the sleazy “Girls Gone Wild”-type film-maker to perfection.  He’s clearly having a ball playing a character that you hope dies in a horrible fashion.  Aside from a bunch of extras, you’ve also got a few porn stars that show up for some….reason or another.  There’s nothing Oscar-worthy here, but some of these characters are surprisingly likable.

If you’ve come for the carnage, you’ve come to the right place.  If you have a weak stomach, it’s probably best to stay away.  This is one of the goriest main-stream movies that I’ve seen in years.  This a film that really goes for the jugular.  Literally.  You have small encounters throughout the film with the fish that are pretty graphic, but the real centerpiece of the film is the beach massacre.  Holy.  Shit.  They really went all out for the visual effects in this film.  There’s definitely some CGI and obvious effects that were designed for a 3-D experience, but they actually provide a darkly humorous flair to the whole thing.  The gore is second to none and we have visual effects maestros Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero to thank for that.  The level of detail on the bodies and the gore is among some of the best I’ve seen from these guys.  If you’re a gorehound like me, then Piranha is going to be right up your alley.

When it comes to underwater creature-features, the Piranha re-make is one of my favorites alongside films like Jaws, Leviathan, and DeepStar Six.  It is a gore-filled adrenaline rush with a wicked sense of humor.  I consider this film to be one of the funnest horror movies of the decade.  It’s definitely a throwback, but in the best way possible.  I don’t necessarily think it’s going to be a classic or anything and some of the CGI hasn’t aged well at all, but the overall tone of the film and the fact that it runs at a breakneck pace makes it an absolute winner in my book.  It’s definitely a wild ride.

My Final Recommendation: Sleazy porn directors make for the best piranha bait.  9/10

This is a topic I’ve been meaning to talk about for some time.  It is a very serious topic and one that can have serious consequences.  The reason I bring up plagiarism as a topic is because of something that happened fairly recently in the world of gaming.  For those that know me, I love video games.  Like many people, gaming is a big hobby of mine.  Before I really begin, I’m going to be posting links to the articles and videos I’m mentioning here at the end of this post, so if you’re curious about what’s going on, you can check those out.  About 3 weeks ago, a YouTuber by the alias of Boomstick Gaming released a video review of a side-scrolling game called Dead Cells.  He gave the game a very positive review, as did a lot of people.  What’s interesting, and my timeline might be a little off, is that two weeks later an editor for the gaming site, IGN, posted his review of the game.  Nothing really out of the ordinary, right?  Not so fast.  A little over a week ago, Boomstick Gaming released a video basically accusing this IGN editor, Filip Miucin, of plagiarizing his video.  In this video, Boomstick provides a side-by-side comparison between his review and Filip’s.  Towards the end of the video, it becomes very clear that Filip had literally used Boomstick’s video as a template for his own.  The pacing and the sentence structure are just too similar to be a coincidence.  IGN got wind of this and quickly took down Filip’s review while they investigated.  Not even a full day later, IGN permanently removed the review and fired Filip Miucin.  They also issued an apology to Boomstick Gaming and their audience for the situation and said they would be putting up a new review of Dead Cells the following week.  A few days later, we finally get a response video from Filip himself trying to explain what happened, poorly, I might add.  Mere hours after he posted that video, he pulled it after he was caught monetizing the video.  In the video, Filip basically challenged the internet to find any other instance of him plagiarizing other reviews.  Bad move, Filip.  Bad move.  Jason Schrier, an investigative journalist at Kotaku, took Filip on his challenge.  According to Variety, Filip is no stranger to plagiarizing reviews.  He’s been doing it for a while.  About a day or so ago, IGN had announced that they were taking down ALL of Filip’s work on their site to see which piece of work was plagiarized and which ones weren’t.

I waited to bring this story up, because I wanted to see how it was going to play out, and it didn’t disappoint.  Filip Miucin’s career as a “gaming journalist” is pretty much over at this point.  That’s what happens when you get caught plagiarizing someone else’s work.  So, what is plagiarism?  Simply put, plagiarism is the act of taking someone else’s work and passing it off as your own.  In other words:  It’s theft.  Plagiarism is something that can affect everyone anywhere.  There is a reason why your school teachers tell you to do your own work and not copy someone else’s.  The consequences of plagiarism can range from getting a bad grade in school to ruining your entire career and life.  Everybody has done it some point in their life and sometimes it’s just a simple case of not citing your sources.  What happened with Filip Miucin is one of the most egregious of plagiarism that I’ve seen in a while.  The worst part about it is that he never apologized for it.  He never took responsibility for copying someone else’s work and he had the audacity to call out Kotaku for investigating him.  He was only remorseful for getting caught.

As a blogger and writer, plagiarism is something I try to avoid like the plague.  Yeah, people do it all the time, and some don’t get caught.  However, in this day and age of the internet and social media, it’s a lot harder to get away with it, because not only do you have investigative journalists like Jason Schreier keeping on eye on things, you’ve got millions of people basically scrutinizing everything you say or do on the internet.  The internet does not forget and it certainly doesn’t forgive.  Even 40-50 years go, if you got caught plagiarizing, it would kill your career.  If you were a student, your educational prospects would be dashed on the rocks.  Nobody would take you seriously.  If you were working for a major publication, the damage your plagiarism could do to that organization could be irreversible.  While plagiarizing might not land you in jail, the other consequences of such an activity are far more severe.  It’s a selfish and lazy way of getting work done.  The lesson here is do your own work and if you have to borrow a quote or something, cite the source and give credit to the original author/s, whether or not they are still alive.  It’s the right thing to do, and it’s going to save you a great deal of misery in the long run.  Plagiarism is a very dangerous trap to fall into and yet, it is the easiest one to avoid.  There are few things in this world that are more satisfying than getting your work out there for people to see.  Do it right and don’t steal someone else’s work.

Sources cited for this post:

Boomstick Gaming’s Dead Cells review

Boomstick Gaming’s IGN Copied My Dead Cells Review: What Do I Do?

Kotaku Article IGN Pulls Review After Plagiarism Accusations(Updated)

Kotaku Article Former IGN Reviewer Responds to Plagiarism Accusations(Updated with multiple accusations)

Variety Article IGN Fires Editor, Pulls Posts After Plagiarism Accusations Surface

Released: August 2018

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Rated PG-13

Run Time: 113 Minutes

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Genre: Action/Adventure

Cast:
Jason Statham: Jonas Taylor
Li Bingbing: Suyin
Rainn Wilson: Morris
Cliff Curtis: Mac
Winston Chao: Zhang
Shuya Sophia Cai: Meiying
Ruby Rose: Jaxx
Robert Taylor: Heller

When Jaws came out in 1975, it surpassed expectations to a degree that not even Steven Spielberg could have imagined.  In spite of the technical issues with the shark, or maybe because of those issues, Jaws took the world by storm and became the world’s first summer blockbuster film.  It’s one of those rare movies that I would even consider calling perfect.  The pacing, the characters, the story and tension all came together in one of the most exciting and realistic thrillers of all time.  Since the film’s release, people have tried to replicated the success of Jaws in their own way.  You had ripoffs like Piranha and Up From the Depths to more shark-related films like Shark Attack and The Shallows.  I can count on one hand how many of these films came close and it’s less than three.  Not even Jaws’ sequels were anywhere near as good.  Honestly, the fact that the original Jaws was successful is something a miracle and most film-makers just didn’t have that “perfect storm” of insanity that forced Spielberg to work around certain issues.  That being said, a lot of these shark-type movies end up just being dumb fun and there is nothing wrong with that, especially if the film embraces its own insanity.  The movie that I bring you today is the latest in the long grand tradition of Jaws knock-offs, although this one is also based on a book.  I give you…THE MEG!

Story?  It’s Jason Statham versus a giant shark.  It’s.  Jason.  Statham.  Versus.  A Giant.  Shark.  What more do you really need?  Okay, fine: Jason Statham plays Jonas Taylor, a rescue specialist that loses two of his best friends during a mission and ends up leaving the ocean for five years.  After that five years, a group of scientists have discovered a new part of the ocean that is actually deeper than the Marianas Trench, so what do they do?  A handful of people in a submersible head down to explore this new area of the ocean only to be attacked by…wait for it….a giant shark, a megalodon.  So, Jonas is brought back to rescue these folks.  It also happens to be that one of these people is Jonas’s ex-wife.  People now believe him that a giant shark exists, but they have to stop it before it reaches a populated area.  That’s pretty much it.  It’s straight-forward and doesn’t really deviate from that course.  Having not read the 1997 book by Steve Alten, I couldn’t tell you how accurate the film is to the book.  So, I may have to pick up the novel out of curiosity.  Overall, the story keeps things moving, that’s pretty much it.

The casting for the film is pretty damned interesting, if I do say so myself.  Li Bingbing plays Suying the daughter of the guy that runs a research facility and she has a daughter, Meiying.  Not only is Li Bingbing one of the most beautiful women in the world, she’s also a fantastic actress.  Her character really gets put through the ringer in this film and Li is more than up for it.  Rainn Wilson plays the billionaire Morris, who funded the whole research facility, so he has a financial stake in what’s going on.  Rainn’s claim to fame was his role in the American version of The Office.  Thankfully, he gives the usually scummy character a more likable vibe, even though his true colors emerge later on.  Everyone else is pretty good overall, even though you know that some of the characters exist solely to get devoured by a massive 100-foot shark.  Jason Statham is the star of the show here and he’s…..well….Jason Statham.  I’m going to flat-out say it:  Mr. Statham is not the kind of actor that goes after Academy Awards, that’s not really his style.  That’s not to say that he’s a bad actor.  Far from it, he’s really good at what he does and he’s always fun to watch.  I really do love his interactions with Li’s character and the kid.  It’s actually pretty good.  Speaking of the kid, Meiying:  She’s actually pretty adorable.  She’s also not irritating like so many child actors these days.  But yeah, this is definitely Jason’s film through and through and he’s fantastic.

I have to say, this is probably some of the most fun I’ve had in theaters this summer.  It’s even better when you’re in a packed theater.  It’s a surprising amount of fun.  The action is pretty solid with some really amazing effects and CGI.  The shark itself is absolutely massive, and it had to be done in CGI of course, because there’s no practical way of bringing a prehistoric predator to life through puppetry and stuff like that.  That being said, the creature that’s delivered is incredibly detailed and it moves.  I didn’t see this one in 3-d, even though I should have, as it strikes me as a movie that begs to be seen in 3-d.  Among some of my favorite sequences is when the shark sneaks up on the girl in the underwater base.  It’s pretty unsettling.  The underwater sequences are fantastic.  Having said that, the movie stumbles a bit by being a PG-13 movie.  I understand the studios’ need to get butts in theaters, but The Meg is one of those films that BEGS for an R-rating.  The potential amount of carnage that could be caused by such a beast is crazy, and Jon Turteltaubt wanted an R-rating, but the studios felt the movie would do better if more people could see it.  I understand that business-wise, but I still think the film could have really made an impact with the gore and violence that were initially planned for the film.  There’s a sequence towards the end of the film that could have easily turned into a spectacular bloodbath if Warner Bros went full-speed ahead.  This is a film that truly needed to be over-the-top violent.  With that in mind, it’s still a great deal of fun.  My only other real issue is some of the pacing early on.  It kind of drags a little bit after the opening scenes.

The Meg is not Jaws.  Not by a long-shot.  But it wasn’t trying to be, either.  The Meg is a film that knows what it is and you are along for the ride.  What a ride it is.  This is not a film that’s going to make you afraid to back in the water.  Jaws already did that 40 years ago.  The Meg is just plain fun.  That’s all it is, and that’s all you really need.  Don’t get me wrong, I really like a smart and complex film, but sometimes you just need to sit back, relax, and turn your brain off for a couple of hours.  The Meg is just that kind of movie.  Yeah, it’s got issues and doesn’t go full-throttle with the carnage that I feel it needed, but it’s a pretty good time.  This one is definitely recommended.

My Final Recommendation:  This one is Meg-a fun.  Thank you, thank you.  I’ll be here all week!  8.5/10