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.

Top 20 Spoony Experiment Episodes

Oh boy… this is going to be a tough one. Okay, I briefly touched on my own disdain for certain reviewers back with Todd In The Shadows, but this is the genuine article. I do not like Noah Antwiler. At all. Between the price gouging on his Patreon page (charging $100/month for a Cards Against Humanity game with him? Seriously, dude?), the utter lack of content of late that has seen a very steep decline in quality when it does come around, making his decision to charge Patrons per month, not per video, a little suspect, and his sheer dickish behaviour on social media (and no, blocking me on Twitter doesn’t qualify him for that, although he is probably one of the few people who has), I feel I have reason enough to hate this guy. But this list wouldn’t exist if I didn’t have some weirdly-shaped place in my critical heart for the man’s work. I sincerely hope that whatever fanboys may or may not come my way don’t take the above statements at face value, as this is yet another continuation of my running theme of separating a reviewer’s on and off-camera actions. So, for the few people that are still reading this after all that, here I am with my Top 20 picks for the best episodes of The Spoony Experiment. And no, I’m not including Let’s Plays, as that’s an entirely different list altogether.