Airborne
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:00
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Comments (539)
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03.22.2011 - 21:41 | TheAngryAnimeAddict
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03.23.2011 - 00:11 | Sheranda
How can you say it was stupid if you never heard of it?
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03.23.2011 - 02:32 | PLAMust have edited the comment. *shrug*
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03.23.2011 - 12:01 | TheAngryAnimeAddictI was talking about watching the review not the movie.
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03.23.2011 - 02:44 | Skuzbucketlickmyponybutt
great vid. i Used to like this movie as a kid mostly cause it was fun to make fun of, but still. and to think now Airborn is a large pill that prevents you from being sick...hm
It seemed like this vid had much more 'other clips' in it than normal lol guess that makes it more EXTREME!
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03.23.2011 - 13:04 | montanker
Yeah this movie's message was EX-TREMEly confused. While saying that all problems should be solved without conflict, the
(cuts to nose brace guy)
main character caused people to hit cars, fall off bridges, and be publicly humiliated.
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03.25.2011 - 12:32 | ladydiskette
Note to self: Do not watch the Surf Porn skit while eating...
I swear I had to give myself the Hiemliech manuever because I almost choked on my green beans with laughter. But it was so worth it!
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03.22.2011 - 21:37 | Kiki-Yushima
Awesome review as usual.
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problem 1- Should have made a joke about Wily's hair looking so bad, that it makes the crazy haired Dr. Wily (from Mega Man) look normal.
problem 2- Needed Vanilla Ice jokes!
problem 3- That guy that just stood there and said nothing made me think of Jason, and his nose brace made me think of part of a hockey mask. A Jason joke would have been great!
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03.22.2011 - 23:50 | BooRat
the dude with the broken nose reminded me more of the guy with the mask from that Joohn Claud Van Dam movie where he's in a Russian Prison!
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03.24.2011 - 21:06 | JRodHackerNow that I think about it, you're right. He does kinda remind me of him. Still, I still say he reminds me of Jason, and we also have hockey in this movie! Jason would've be perfect!
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03.23.2011 - 00:14 | SherandaThat was a little too much criticism for the Nostalgia Critic.
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03.23.2011 - 00:43 | MattHattThere's not enough criticism from this guy :P
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What a douche-bag that main character was! I give props to NC for not letting the funny get lost in all the completely justified criticism.
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03.24.2011 - 08:48 | uknownada...Too much criticism? How?
I'm fairly certain Doug can take any amount of criticism by how much he gives it in movies, and the fact that he's pretty much an internet celebrity.
I'm pretty sure Doug is mature enough to take it in and say "huh...I could have used those as jokes." and keep going on with his life.
tl;dr He can take criticism. There is no "too much".
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03.24.2011 - 14:36 | SherandaI do I always feel like people misunderstand me? I meant JRodHacker criticized the Critic too much. The Critic gave just enough criticism.
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04.10.2011 - 21:26 | SherandaWhen Mitchell and Nikki were in that garden, I don't blame him for putting on his blades. Gardens bore me to tears.
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04.10.2011 - 21:41 | SherandaAlso, Wiley was wearing a headband to keep his hair out his face while he brushed his teeth. What was he supposed to use instead, hair clips?
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03.23.2011 - 07:29 | mrskippy
1) Um...no, he shouldn't. Because, let's face it, Dr. Wiley was worse.
2) No, it didn't, any more than it needed Nirvana jokes. Vanilla Ice does not automatically equal funny.
3) That would have ruined the setup for the running gag throughout the entire review, which was hilarious every time it was used. What's funnier, one decent joke, or a whole string of awesome jokes?
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I give the review a passing grade! I just thought it missed here and there.
If you don't agree, that's fine with me. I'm just throwing my 2 cents in.
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03.23.2011 - 23:36 | avencree
I thought of Jason too when I saw that guy. I also had to look behind me for some reason.
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03.22.2011 - 23:05 | G0069
Additional generic noob compliment, NC!
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04.07.2011 - 07:37 | TheBrigeedaRocks
Actually, coming from someone who used to be picked on a shit-ton in grammar school and half of high school because of a speech impediment, his "puss-out speech" was pretty kickass to me.
If I had the balls to say something like that, I would have.
Hell I got one bitch off my back because I told her she wasn't worth me wasting my breath on.
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A movie that completely embodies the 90's?! Oh gosh! Great decade, but not if it's ground up and put made into a movie! But it sure is, EXTREME!!
Does anyone else think that Seth Green looks like Doug Funnie's older sister when he first shows up? Look: http:// 30.media.tumblr.com/ tumblr_kvnawkXIX31qzh8jso 1_500.jpg
This is a GREAT review, Doug!
Cut to Braceface.
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03.22.2011 - 23:31 | e33lafI thought he looked distubingly like a real life Edna Mode, but I can definetly see Judy Funnie in there too.
Most excellent review bro, and I really dug the use of Aladdin and the Tonight Ensemble......and I'm going to end my pathetic attempt at using "hip" early 90's slang right there :p
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03.22.2011 - 21:28 | darkmindedsith
I also thought of Judy too.
Sorry, Doug. Didn't mean to bring up the show 'Doug' again.
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03.23.2011 - 09:25 | Madara XIII
Better hide. He might start hearing the voices again XD
DOUG FUNNY
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03.23.2011 - 00:15 | SherandaYeaahh... kind of.
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03.23.2011 - 00:16 | SherandaKind of like Judy, I mean.
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03.23.2011 - 09:47 | Madara XIIIAn EXTREME Judy?
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03.22.2011 - 21:13 | SlyDante
Stray thoughts:
- My first impression of Mitchell: "What is Tim Burton's Willy Wonka doing in this movie?"
- It definitely felt like one giant set of commercials to me as well, especially the line "...I know what I like." That kept reminding me of the tagline to the Apple Jacks commercial.
- Five bucks says the cut to the nose brace kid becomes a new recurring gag.
- Yep, I sensed a whole chunk of '90s cliches as well...Save for the rival prep school kids, which was more of an '80s cliche. I'm just surprised they weren't trying to tear down the rec center (though there is the footage that wasn't in your review...).
- No '90s Kid cameo again like with Bio-Dome? Awww...
- Devil's Backbone? Really? Who actually names all of these hills/routes in movies? And will those kids be careful? They almost ran into Abe Lincoln & JFK's cars!
- Airbourne, the band >>>> Airborne, the movie.
...All in all, another damn good review! ^_^
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03.22.2011 - 22:42 | TragicGuineaPig
[music=nirvana]
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU DE!!
THIS MOVIE IS FREAKIN' AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOME!!
Actually, this movie could also use a cameo from Magnus Rockjaw! "EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME !!"
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Agreed. Why isn't there a 90's kid cameo in this review?
I'm guessing Doug at least asked Linkara, otherwise I'm EXTREME!!!!-ly disappointed.
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03.23.2011 - 21:43 | Morgoth Bauglir
Because 90's Kid doesn't touch anything this EXTREME.
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03.24.2011 - 18:28 | Divide By Zero
Kept expecting 90s Kid to show up at some point too, lol.
I actually remember this movie. I had totally forgotten it existed until now. Talk about a time warp.
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Devil's Backbone is a real street.... It just happens to be about 30 minutes outside of the city. The street they raced on is nowhere near the real deal...
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03.23.2011 - 19:56 | SlyDanteHuh, well that's neat...But seriously, who decided to name it "Devil's Backbone"?
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03.23.2011 - 20:39 | LermontIDK the brace guy wasn't THAT funny, It'll become annoying in a flash, maybe if he uses him once a month or so. I'm still bummed out over Doug not using the awesome reaction reels of that crazy guy from Warriors of virtue.
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03.29.2011 - 14:34 | LordMakai
I live in Cincinnati, Devil's Backboe is a real street, and it's very dangerous to try skating down it, you'd probably kill yourself.
But no, everything they showed in the race wasn't Devil's backbone, i think they just wanted shots of downtown.
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03.22.2011 - 21:13 | Dornob
I'm guessing the nose brace kid not talking was supposed to be the joke, but this movie is shit so who really cares.
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Try not to let a post late by a couple hours bother you. By the way, I would like to see a commentary of this review.
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03.22.2011 - 21:16 | ShinitaiHana
dear god I remember watching this as a kid... there was nothing else on, but yea terrible movie, great review!
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03.22.2011 - 21:17 | patrick_o
The cliches in this movie would reach the moon and back 23 times. It's wonderful.
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03.22.2011 - 21:17 | Jonathan MDon't you hate when assholes post before watching the video just so they can be on the first fucking page?
Well, hate me then, bitches.
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03.22.2011 - 21:57 | Moreno XI know how you feel Jonathan M, they really like to be first to comment like doucheclowns. They should have a motivation poster that says:
Douchebags - They're obsessed to be "first" to act like jackasses.
They can hate me too, but like you I do not care.
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03.23.2011 - 19:20 | axlryder
usually demotivations are supposed to be, you know, funny
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03.22.2011 - 23:21 | SlyDanteActually, most of us did INDEED watch the video first via Doug's Blip account, & thus had our initial comments ready.
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03.22.2011 - 21:22 | AJeebes
Doug, where do you find some of these movies? Granted, most are notoriously bad in some way, but where do you find them?
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03.23.2011 - 19:21 | axlrydergoogle "bad 90's kids movies"
BuBam, there you go.
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Ha! Surf ninjas reference...
"Ugh... peace! *Hiss* "
Ps. That review was... EXTREME! (Wow, my comment has, like, no structure at all...)
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03.22.2011 - 21:25 | edjr1980
Am I the only 1 who hasn't heard of this movie?
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03.23.2011 - 00:21 | SherandaNo. Didn't you read the caption for this review on the home page?
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03.23.2011 - 02:34 | whatever42
I also hadn't heard or known of the existence of this movie until just now and its easy to see why. This is just a bland, cliche movie that no one would care about in any fashion.
Despite that, good review Doug, as usual. I especially liked your choice of music for the cloths montage. It was very appropriate, and that fact makes me sad for this movie even more. I also really hope that the cut to facebrace kid becomes a running gag, because I can totally see that working in so many instances.
Good job on making this movie not such a bore. I look forward to the next review and hope that the next movie is at least more interesting than this one.
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03.22.2011 - 21:25 | NadiaZeta
EXTREME STUPID MOVIE!!!
I never see this movie, now i know why -.-
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EXTREME!!!! Man, i remember when in-line skating was cool, it used to be an X-Games event, not sure if it still is
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03.23.2011 - 00:24 | SherandaI miss the 1990s so much. The flannel, the baggie clothes, the torn jeans, the jackets tied around the waists, the scrunchies. I love nostalgia.
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03.22.2011 - 21:27 | SNES guy
I didn't expect this review at all....
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03.23.2011 - 00:02 | TragicGuineaPigNOBODY EXPECTS THE SPAN...er,...THIS REVIEW AT ALL!
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03.22.2011 - 21:55 | Taufiq91
Actually, out of all the NC reviews this is one of the least hated and one of the more well-produced films.
I mean, the cinematography was decent for a 90's film and you have to admit the surfing scenes are actually kind of cool.
but the problem i think is because that no one could relate to any of the characters in this movie. I couldn't relate to the surfer and his surf fetish at all. it's basically a slice of life film without any "life".
And if he wants to surf so bad, why not ask his parents if he can visit Australia once a month? Isn't that more rational than just abandoning their own son to Cincinnati for the entire six months?
ANd basically, what kind of soundtarck does this movie have? If you're going to make a movie based on EXTREME! sports, have some 90's alt rock music, not RnB/New jack Swing!
And no, Cincinnati is not a hockey town, nor is it known for their EXTREME! sports. it is known for it's theatre community though, so why not have a plot based on that instead of EXTREME! sports?
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03.22.2011 - 23:07 | TragicGuineaPigNew Jack Swing - by the time this movie was made, even NJS was on its way out. But I don't think that Grunge had hit its full stride yet. Grunge really hadn't come to define the 90s at the time this film was being made. They could have gone for some hardcore techno, like some of the stuff from Mortal Kombat.
Point is, the 80s were still hanging on at this point in the 90s, and for productions directed toward younger audiences 80s aesthetics still dominated (see "Saved by the Bell").
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03.23.2011 - 19:27 | axlryderI'm pretty sure smashing pumpkins wouldn't have suited the tone they were going for anyway, considering grunge is a very nihilistic genre, and this kid's all about "teh Gandhi".
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03.22.2011 - 23:29 | SlyDanteI guess the cinematography is decent...But when your film has "decent cinematography" as a main selling point, you know it's trouble. =P
The six months thing actually reminds me that the romance in the end is essentially doomed, since he's just going to be moving away from the girl back to Cali in one or a few months. Happy ending, guys!
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03.23.2011 - 10:45 | Cyberdaemon
Because, it's the 90s, the decade of EXTREME-ness, and only a small sect of us find theater EXTREME!
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03.22.2011 - 21:32 | techie74DEAR GOD!!!! this movie needs to go back to editing. It's horrible
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03.22.2011 - 23:08 | TragicGuineaPigMore like "the cutting room floor."
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03.22.2011 - 21:45 | DarkMessiah
Jack Black and Seth Green? In a movie together? And they expect us to take it seriously as a film? Ha. Not gonna happen.
I would also like to add, I love the Aladdin references. The similarities between the two were much too obvious, even for a 90-minute-ish commercial.
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This main character just shot up to #1 of the people who I want to punch in the face
Glad I never saw this
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03.23.2011 - 00:26 | SherandaObviously, you never saw Bio-Dome.
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03.22.2011 - 21:38 | bluesoul
I totally don't remember seeing any advertising for this movie at all, and I was a 90's teen! After watching the review, though, seems like I was better off in my ignorance! Oh, Seth Green, what the hell were you/the stylists thinking, man?!
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03.22.2011 - 21:39 | Moreno XMan, this movie is so religious with its own style. My goodness, Surf Ninjas was a better "surf" movie - decently entertaining than this douchey film.
Great review NC. Keep it up.
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03.22.2011 - 21:40 | snakes3425Hey I'm from Cincinnati and I find this movie increadibly insulting and for the record unless they're talking about Dead Man's Curve in Northern Kentucky there is no Devil's Backbone here
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There is a Devil's Backbone; It runs through Delhi. By the looks of this movie they placed it somewhere in Price Hill.... Stupid Stupid Movie...
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03.29.2011 - 14:42 | LordMakaiI'm surprised how many places in this movie I knew, I've lived in Cinci all my life but don't see too much of it. i thought it would be more of the city area I don't go to.
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03.23.2011 - 22:14 | hirakata_jen
How about the fact that Cinti isn't a frozen wasteland in the winter. It barely snows and when it does, people don't play hockey, they flip out and cancel school and no one drives on the roads. I've lived in Cincinnati and Upstate NY, quite a difference when it comes to winter sports.
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03.29.2011 - 14:41 | LordMakaiSure there is, it's near Werk Rd.
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03.22.2011 - 21:45 | Fangheart
hey Doug, didn't YOU used to have hair like that? :P (and by "that" I mean Seth Green's hair)
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03.23.2011 - 00:27 | SherandaWhere did you hear that?
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03.23.2011 - 09:39 | FangheartDoug has shown some of his ancient Beginner's videos he made in early college and even High school. and I'm pretty sure his hair looked quite similar to Seth Green's hair in this movie. ;)
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03.24.2011 - 17:13 | Foobeh
To be fair, Doug's hair was a lot straighter and therefore less poofy. It still was a ridiculous hairstyle though :v
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07.08.2011 - 01:11 | SherandaWhat a coincidence! I'm on a sugar high, and I want to compliment your picture! Raven is my favorite Teen Titan. I think I relate to her the most. She needs to be in Young Justice.
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03.22.2011 - 21:49 | AllisonTheSNLGuruI knew this title looked familiar, but I've never seen this film. Definitely not what I watched in the mid-1990s.
Wow, is this REALLY what the media believed the 1990s and teen life was? Aside from the clothes, mid-1990s middle school and late-1990s high school did not look like this, at least not in South Jersey.
This kid definitely has that Disney Prince look down perfectly. I hate to say it, I have Seth Green's haircut, except its not pin straight and it doesn't look fake like his hair. And the female lead...who is she? She looks so familiar.
Another fine review, Critic! Thanks for another trip to the section of the video store I generally didn't tread.
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03.22.2011 - 21:49 | jabraille
Eww, now I have that stupid song stuck in my head. I BLAME YOU.
I'm beginning to think it was a -good- thing that I had virtually no access to media in the nineties...
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03.22.2011 - 23:11 | TragicGuineaPigFunny. I have "Smells Like Teen Spirit" stuck in mine.
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03.23.2011 - 00:29 | SherandaYou missed out on SO much!!
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03.22.2011 - 21:51 | The_Critic
Lol this movie is pretty bad. I vaguely remember seeing it as a kid, and even then I knew it was complete horse shit.
Now that I see scenes from it again, it reminds of a lot of those disney channel original movies that came out around the same time, in fact this movie seems to be a mixture of Brink! and Jonny Tsunami, with a little of the Mighty Ducks thrown in... HAHA I'm almost ashamed to have been an adolescent through that decade, almost.
Great review Doug, enjoyed it.
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03.22.2011 - 21:52 | SaturnWow. No cameo from 90s kid? was he busy?
anyways, nice job.
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03.22.2011 - 22:30 | pap64
You just read my thoughts :p . This looked like the perfect opportunity for 90s Kid to make a cameo. Maybe Linkara punished him or something :p
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03.22.2011 - 21:52 | HankManWow I never realized how retarded Disney Princes were/are.
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and it was EX-TREMEly stupid =p