TheRetroCritic

I talk about Season 5 of Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. .

Whoever said that the French couldn't do medieval-themed time-travel comedies? Probably very few, granted. Still, cult comedy Les Visiteurs certainly proved that there was definitely room for more out-of-the-box efforts in the genre. Jean-Marie Poiré, king of blink-and-you'll-miss-em shots, brings his fast-paced, manic style to an absurd story involving knight Godefroy De Montmirail (a career-best Jean Reno) and vassal Jacqouille La Fripouille (Christian Clavier) somehow going forwards in time after a bad run-in with a devious witch. They are propelled into present-day (well, 90's) France after a wizard's potion backfires and they eventually meet their descendants who amusingly look exactly the same but find themselves more than confused by this knight and his disciple's sudden arrival. On paper, Les Visiteurs is nothing special: a typical, rather old-fashioned goofy fish-out-of-water farce. On top of that, Hollywood has its share of great time-travel movies

Why The Voyage Home is always included in the good even numbered Star Trek flicks is pretty darn strange. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't hate Star Trek IV, actually it's a pretty fun watch, it's just that... Whales? Really?! Star Trek has always had a sense of humour to it and that's fine. Usually in the Original Series it kept its lols for the very last scene, though. And that was usually enough. But a whole movie of just lols? I'm scared... The Voyage Home takes place right after The Search For Spock , though it really doesn't need to, and the gang is still using that Klingon ship Christopher Lloyd so generously lent them. The Federation is pissed off at them for going on their nutty searching-for-one-dead-Vulcan mission but it turns out that the Earth itself is in peril due to a probe that's... making whale sounds and that's... bad for some reason because... whales... don't exist in the future? No, I'm not making this up.