K05 Gamera

K05 Gamera: The crew didn't get paid very much during their time at KTMA. Because of this they had to keep doing other work on the side to make ends meat. Sadly, this meant that there where times when a cast member (or two) couldn't show up for the filming of an episode. This is one of those episodes. Trace had to be out of town and for some reason Josh was there for the host segments but not the theater segments.

You know how I said that last week's movie wasn't Gamera's worst? Well, I found a strong contender in this mess of a film. There exist two cuts of this movie, one that's not that bad, and the Sandy Frank version. To no man's surpise, this is the later.  Gamera is actually a pretty cool Kaiju, and it is amusing to watch as the military comes up with failed plan after failed plan to take him down. The biggest problem with this movie can be spelled in five letters: Kenny. He's really, REALLY obnoxious and the whole "Gamera is a good Turtle" crap doesn't hold up, what with him killing hundreds and all.
Verdict:2/4-Bad! It's silly, but WAY to annoying.

Crow is frozen, so that the SOL can have a Christmas tree and Tom just isn't in the theater (maybe he had better things to do, I dunno), so Joel is left all by his lonesome with a very bad movie. Poor Joel tries to make this fun, but without anyone to bounce off of, he's only working at about half power this week. Tom and Crow are sorely missed, for in their place is utter, laughless, silence. Joel fought back, but Gamera won.

Opener: shows Crow getting Frozen and Joel announcing the film's title.
Seg1: We have a call that asks who does Joel's hair.
Seg2: Shows a kid who wants Godzilla on the show and the Ted Turner call-in contest.
Seg3: Even more messages, including a very pro-Gamera fellow and an anti-Gamera fellow.  End: Joel telling Gypsy about the holidays.
Overall:The host segments are, meh. I swear that the pro-Gamera and Anti-Gamer fellows where the same guy...oh and I'm pretty sure that he didn't say ship! I did like the call-in contest questions though.

Verdict: 1/6-Ack! There is a huge amount of silence in theater, with a VERY annoying movie. Tom and Crow's absence means that we only have 1 third of the usual horse power and in the end I'm just relived to have been done with it.