Kickassia (2010) - Movie Review

As I mentioned previously, the reason why Meta Month is set during April is because it was this month six years ago that I first watched an Internet video review which lead me down the long, winding path to this spot. Well, April 2010 also served as another important point for certain Internet critics. Cross-overs between reviewers is nothing new; hell, Siskel & Ebert was very much a cross-over and that existed long before YouTube was even a concept in the back of some guy’s head. However, in terms of the online video realm, the Nostalgia Critic had been toying with the concept ever since he started, pretty much. From his feud with the Angry Video Game Nerd to his review of FernGully with the Nostalgia Chick, there’s been a collaborative air to his work for a long while now.

So, after the success of the big TGWTG team-up brawl as the capstone to the AVGN beef, Doug and co. got a bunch of the then-current site talent together for the start of what would be a yearly tradition for quite a while afterwards: The massive cross-over film. This was where the whole DIY aesthetic of the Internet video reviewer got turned its head a little, as not only were a large number of them congregating into a single piece but they were going for a feature-length production, when most of their work would usually range in the 5-25 minute market. But, with all the years of retrospect and advances made to the format as a whole, does this film still hold up? In fact, did this ever hold up? Let’s take a look as we close out Meta Month at a look at the TGWTG 2 Year Anniversary film. This is Kickassia.

Atop The Fourth Wall: The Movie (2015) - Movie Review

I’ve brought up the notion of sheer objectivity in film criticism before, and how for various reasons I just can’t apply myself to that school of thought, but this is one of those occasions where I kind of have to address something in the interest of objectivity. I am something of a regular producer for a large number of the shows that I have covered over the last month, which thanks to services like Patreon has been made a lot easier for laymen such as myself. Now, while there could have been arguments made about bias considering these are people I am actively putting money towards on a semi-regular basis, the fact that I’ve been mostly sticking to lists of their best work should already show that I have a rather biased approach to these shows already. This is something a bit different, as I along with a slew of other people contributed directly to the production’s Indiegogo campaign, meaning that my name (my birth name, at least) is attached to this feature-length production. Maybe if I saw any revenue as a result of my involvement with the thing, this would actually factor into things, but… yeah, this is pretty much just me admitting to being involved somewhat with the thing in keeping with how generally open I am about whatever stance I may already be in when going into a film. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get started with this thing already.