|
|
Do you find yourself wishing that you could relive the early 90’s? Silly question, of course you do! That time period was just so awesome and Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the perfect 90’s movie. The clothes, the dialogue, the hair…every aspect reeks of early 90’s and it is just so much fun. You look at their clothes and laugh at how ridiculous they look, but then you laugh because you remember wearing something similar to it. Don’t even try to deny it.
That surrealistic style is part of the charm of Buffy, and the other part is that it’s a girl kicking some vampire ass. To me, that’s the real cherry on top of the pile of dead vampires. One of my favorite aspects is how Buffy (Kristy Swanson) wasn’t the damsel in distress needing to be saved. Luke Perry was the damsel needing saved this time. Didn’t you just want to be like Buffy, a strong female saving all the men from vampires? Boys, it’s okay to admit it…wait, no, it’s not, keep that to yourself. Of course my levels of skilled movements and coordination at the time (and even now) had other ideas, but I was still a little sad when I never got to try to protect my school from the undead. (Sigh.) Oh well, maybe one day.
Can you believe how many now famous people were in Buffy? Ben Affleck and Hilary Swank! Hee hee, they look funny. Plus, Swank plays an airhead valley girl. Whoa, I’m used to her beating up people or getting beat up. And before I forget, there’s PEE WEE! Paul Reubens is hardly recognizable as the main vampires toady sidekick vamp. I just love watching all these actors in different roles.
Overall, don’t watch this flick for its action. Watch it because it’s hilarious.
Time until real action starts: ~ 23 minutes
Big Bad Baddies: Vampires
Best Line: “And now you’re a coat rack!” Also, the way “Detention!” is said by the principal, I know him as Jimmy James (Stephen Root), is great.
Best Kill: Buffy performs a move that is best described as a barrel roll, and impales a vamp through el hearto. Boom goes the dynamite! Best Explosion: Uh, no no, no, no, nothing here. Too bad, I would have loved to see Jimmy James (Stephen Root) blow up some high schoolers and blame it on the vampires.
Action Rating: 1 Buffy kicking the crap out of a one armed vampire Pee-wee, out of 5 
Illustration by Alex Langley. Rocket Llama World Headquarters.
Related posts:
A few years ago Maxim magazine had a whole thing on Swanson. One of their main points was that she was a better (or at least hotter) Buffy than Sarah Michelle Gellar 🙂
Anyway you made some great points. I had forgotten how many famous people were in Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Don’t know if you care – Paul Reubens played Bat-Mite on last week’s Batman: The Brave and the Bold on Cartoon Network.
Ahhh, Bat-mite. They really had to dig in Batman’s history to find that lil critter. There’s a dude I doubt we’ll be seeing in the sequel to Dark Knight.
marvelous review
Awesome review, brought me back to the good ol days, whenever this flick is on the boob tube, I just can’t switch it off. And while I never wanted to BE buffy, I sure wanted to run around with her and fight the undead, must be the werewolf in me? P.S. I have always liked Kristy Swanson, best Swanson hot scene, The Chase, same time frame, Charlie Sheen. That is all.
I remember watching this not too long ago and seeing Affleck’s mad b-ball skillz. I had to stop it and shout to the posters on my wall, “Check it out, that’s Ben Affleck!?”
But Paul Reubens is a scene stealer.
Pingback: Action Flick Chick - » Chicks Who Don’t Want Flowers: Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Pingback: Action Flick Chick - » Is That Who I Think It Is: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)!