Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This used to be fun to watch 10 years ago but, nowadays in 2016? Not anymore. I just don't get the praise this show gets. None of the characters are likable.Church doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut for more than five minutes. Has a girlfriend in Tex, that he is extremely abrasive towards to, Caboose is the dumb one, Simmons is the nerd, Sarge is a farm boy, Donut is a girly-guy, Andy the annoying bomb, etc.It started off well enough with how Caboose killed Church with Sheila and it was pretty fun to watch 10 years ago. Now after watching Season 4 with how Tucker got...impregnated by an alien. No. Just no.And here's my biggest flaw with this show.Apart from Sheila killing a character here and there (or Wyoming taking over Doc's body) the show is nothing more than the characters back sassing each other and calling each other names.Nothing more. That's it. That's the whole crux of Red Vs. Blue. The voice acting here is very well done. Burnie Burns and the rest of the cast do wonders of voicing the characters very well.If you watch earlier seasons (which is what I am reviewing) you notice that very rarely will you see more than four characters on screen at a time, granted I know this show was made back in 2003/2004/2005 with restrictions like that but, it just kills predictability of the show.Aside from Tucker's "bow chicka bow wow" gag, I have never seen anyone share a Red Vs. Blue video on Facebook, Instagram and praise the show and make people check it out.After not watching the show for years and on YouTube again for so long, like can't there be more than 10 characters? (Sister is introduced in the middle of Season 5) The maps in Halo are extremely empty and I'm very surprised they are still continuing this show in 2016.I'm sorry but, I don't get it. But I will admit all of it is very well made. I just wish it had likable characters and invest making story lines that are not dumb like Tucker getting pregnant.

The series Red Vs Blue, created by Rooster Teeth, is an online parody, if you will, of Halo. the characters consist of a wimpy pacifist, a smart-ass, two morons, two sarcastic slackers, an unrelenting kiss-ass, and a crazy bounty hunter. one of the great things is that all of the jokes are funny, the one liners ("You watch everything? even what we did at our rocks?" "Yes, and you should be ashamed."), the story-like ones ("What was all that stuff about God?"), the subtle ones ("Find... -ok for- ...Ucker." "Okay... do you spell that with a T of an F?"), all of them. It is also a large joke to the military life style, if you could call it that. The basic story line is two teams fighting over a canyon in the middle of nowhere, which suddenly changes when an insane schizo in the wimpy pacifist attacks and leaves the area. Hilarity ensues in this great series. Seasons one through three are out on DVD now, and season four will be out this March. I highly recommend you to get them, if you don't get the episodes from the rooster teeth website.

This is one hilarious comedy. Normally I'm more of an A Bit Of Fry And Laurie girl, but Red Vs Blue is so funny in its own cool way. I mean, come on, a war in which the girls fight better than the guys and all the guys are wimpy idiots or suck-ups... reminds me of my life... Anyhow, I seriously think that this is the most awesome series I've seen. If you like comedy of any kind, but especially Will Ferrell/Ashton Kutcher type comedy, I would strongly recommend Red Vs Blue. And you know, you haven't laughed until you've seen RvB. You'll love all the characters (bar a few...lol) and you'll laugh until you are violently sick... ENJOY!!

The concept of Red vs. Blue is an interesting one - the campaign game of Halo is an epic sci- fi action adventure that follows a solid storyline with well told cinematics. And why not? Humans in a losing war against aliens is a good opportunity for some dramatic action. The makers at Bungie found it also to make the game, engine wise and story wise, to be as realistically convincing as possible. However, outside of the campaign mode, the largest use of the game is little games such as Capture the Flag. The guys at Rooster Teeth, mainly creator Bernie Burns, asked: "What would happen if someone tried to write a story to a capture the flag game of life or death, as depicted?" Realizing that such a war cannot exist in the real world, as it's way too stupid and pointless, they go with it as a 'what if' scenario, and depict it accordingly. As such, this is a very funny tale of men in the most pointless war imaginable, everyone either not wanting to be there, is too into the violence to care that it's pointless, or too dumb to even think about it. It's proved pointless early on when Caboose is asked to watch over and guard the flag, and he tells his comrades that he doesn't know why he must do such a thing, and asks what's so important about it. The shock doesn't come to his friends when he asks so much, however, as when they realize they have no actual explanation to give him.The genius is the semi-simplicity of the structure, while still following almost every war stereotype to have come about it. The story revolves around seven primary men in the canyon of Blood Gulch, in which this deadly game of capture the flag is going on. They've been there seemingly for months, and their bases are only about 500 feet away from each other, yet you are almost instantly subjected to the idea that they only shoot at each other once every few weeks or so, probably because they don't see the glory of a flag to be worth putting their own lives in danger. Instead, there's a lot of banter, which is arguably the most observant and creative I've ever heard. One primary example would be when the camera moves to Grif and Simmons, who are arguing whether the word 'both' is pronounced as 'both' or 'bolth'. This works not only because most people do indeed pronounce an 'L' in the word, but it's easy to imagine these two soldiers being so outrageously bored given their current situation that they have to bicker about things on an all new level that redefines 'mundane.'That's not to say that the story doesn't advance - in fact, it moves with more twists and turns than most war movies, usually driven by accidents, misunderstandings, or evolving subplots. A prime example of a subplot would be from Season 2: a love triangle between Pvt. Caboose, Sheila (the woman's voice for the Blue team's tank), and Lopez, the captured robot built by the Reds. It also moves at a good pace, as initially each sequence of events could only span a week or two, otherwise the audiences would be able to guess what would happen (supposedly they guessed the most sudden plot twists sometimes, that had no clues leading up to them). As such, each season, which operates on DVD more as a chapter to an ongoing saga, and it is built up of multiple sequences of events, that when one is over, they simply start to set up the next one, which sometimes follows suit.If you want to know what the atmosphere is like, think of it like this: The series is about a 'war' yet there isn't even a villain introduced until the second season, and he doesn't even do anything until towards the end of it. Neither Red nor Blue are the heroes or villains in the majority of the storyline, as their only enemies until later on are each other. And luckily, the writers were smart enough to give both the Reds and the Blues an equal amount of screen time, so that you can decide which one you like better for yourself, or you can do what many do, which is to like both sides equally.The characters themselves are a perfect half and half. Half of them are almost frighteningly realistic in such a situation that they say and do just about anything one can think of, because thinking of things to do or talk about is all that there is to do. The other half are almost over-stereotyped, such as Sarge's obsession with the Red's victory, and Caboose, who is literally so dumb that they have to give him a full tutorial on how to operate a switch (or a personal favorite couple of lines of mine -- Tucker: "Church, we've got a problem." Church: "Is this a new problem, or did Caboose get his head stuck in the freezer again?"). These stereotyped characters would normally grow to be almost painfully overtoned, but the realistic characters hold everything in realistic perspective, and luckily, they're the ones who really drive the narrative, given a good 2/3 of the screen time.Along with the fantastic series, there are also some Public Service Announcement videos, which are amazing in their sense of parody, and with the DVD's, you get some surprisingly good deleted scenes, additional content, and rather entertaining commentary tracks. If you're looking for something with a new spin on sci-fi comedy that's so convincing sometimes that you'll swear that the characters are people that you know, then Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles is more than recommended. Just bear in mind that Season's 2 & 3 are funnier than Season 1, as the start took a while to get going.