Mordecai: Future you came and talked to you and nothing happened Rigby: Do you think talking to ourselves is gonna screw up time or anything-what if we explode, or implode or something?
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(The movie reaches for, and achieves some real poignancy here.) Which is not to say the film is lacking in solid, funny writing, as when Present Rigby and Mordecai are debating whether to talk to their past selves: The movie’s MacGuffin is a reality-devastating “timenado” (thank you Sharknado, we’re now in for an endless number of “nado’-suffixed phenomena) that will turn pals Mordecai and Rigby into bitter enemies in the future, but its real story is their friendship, and how a bad choice can change peoples’ lives forever. (Past Mordecai and Rigby attended “West Anderson” high school, a much subtler-and funnier-hat-tip to a favorite director than Animaniacs’ “Scorsese Park.”) In the process we-and the characters-get to meet their past, present and future selves. It boasts a brilliantly constructed time-jumping screenplay, with a pre-credit sequence set in The Future, followed by the plot set-up in The Present and a visit to The Past to right past wrongs and negate a doom-laden future. The Movie revels in its creator’s 1980s childhood, with easily recognizable Star Warsy sci-fi styling and vector video game-ish opening titles. Quintel and indeed there’s a lot of that show’s Vince and Howard in the two critters’ relationship. According to Wikipedia, the surreal British comedy The Mighty Boosh was a big influence on Regular creator J.G. I’m probably going to bore those folks who have been wise to The Regular Show since its premiere, but even to a newbie it’s quickly obvious that slacker pals Rigby the raccoon and Mordecai the blue jay, have known each other forever, that Rigby is impulsive and forgetful, and Mordecai slightly more thoughtful, but equally lazy. The relationships have a “lived-in” feeling that yes, these are people who all know each other, the way you’re closer to certain people in your crowd than others you might find annoying, but you’re all comfortable with each other’s company and you’re used to their particular quirks. I read the show’s Wikipedia article, then started watching the movie… what a sap I was, not picking up on this earlier! For starters, the characters are personality-driven, and their personalities, the way they mesh and contrast are far more important than their unusual appearances. It could’ve been a mistake to jump in that far along the characters have had six years to evolve and reveal their personalities in depth, and I might not have a clue who they were, personality-wise.
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Well, any show that’s been around for seven seasons and has an Emmy under its belt deserves a look sooner or later I decided to start with Regular Show: The Movie. (And yes, I’m talking to you Uncle Grandpa.) I heard a lot of good buzz about the show and I should’ve watched a few episodes, but the bizarre cast of characters (anthro animals, a bubble gum machine guy, a yeti, a ghost, a lollypop-headed old guy with a squealy voice…) made me think it was just another Cartoon Network show with a lot of random, WTF elements and strange-looking characters mixed together for no particular reason and to no particular effect. I’ve been so busy catching up on Pony, watching Epic Rap Battles of History and Capaldi Doctor Who’s, I never got around to developing a Regular Show habit.
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Okay, I admit it, I’m a little late to this particular picnic.