Generations

Sometimes, the goings-on in the 3dmm community can make for some really good source material for movie making. There already is a 3dmm-exclusive genre known as the "community movie"- and when they are actually backed up by some serious imagination and aren't just sloppily thrown together hate movies they can be really entertaining (see "Powerplay"). "Generations" by the relatively new director "Jalal" is one of the community based movies that actually ends up being fun to watch- due to some hilarious voice acting, great jokes, and surprisingly good directing.

"Generations" is a movie based on the long-running flame war between Thomas Bown and Doughboy, and Ramza Brave. Actually, it's about the end of this period of hatred, which is good, since a movie about people insulting each other back and forth wouldn't stay interesting for very long. After watching Ramza's new movie "Replay 2" Bown and Doughboy try to talk about how much they didn't like it, though they fear the consequences that should follow, being as they're in a movie partly made by Ramza Brave. Sure enough, they're bombarded by gay jokes. Tired of this crap, they decide to try to smooth things over with Ramza. You might expect (being as Ramza is the one who wrote this movie) for Ramza to come out looking like a saint, and Bown and Doughboy to end up looking like evil patronizing bastards. As it turns out though, Ramza ends up looking like the biggest jerk in the movie (he also gets my personal favorite line: "Sometimes to really figure things out, you have to become a serial killer...", hahaha). Sure, Bown and Doughboy don't get off without being hit just as hard (check out their broken, prepubescent voices, hilariously done by Jeremy Dick and Jeff Ching), but it's nice to see that Ramza didn't take the easy path of making himself look like the "good guy".

One thing I have to say that really surprised me about this movie- Jalal is a really good director! I seriously didn't expect to see animation and camera angles that were this good from a "newbie" movie maker. No offence to all the newbies out there, when a director releases one of his first movies I always seem to have low expectations. This really surprised me though...maybe Jalal isn't as new as I thought he was...? Either that or he just learns quickly. Either way, animation gets high scores. A couple hand made scenes were built kind of odd - for instance, the one where Ramza beats up Doughboy on the sidewalk looked kind of weird to me...mostly because when the camera zoomed in the sidewalk seemed to triple in size.

...but besides that, great stuff!

One thing that I thought really worked in this movie were the jokes- some really hilarious stuff here! Every one of Jeff's Doughboy lines were classic. Ramza's voice was a little low and hard to hear in comparison, but he had some great lines that made me laugh out loud also. I found myself even laughing through the "drama" scenes...not really sure if that's a good thing or not (I assume that no part of this movie was really meant to be taken seriously). Yep. Not much else to say really without giving all of the jokes away. Funny stuff! The penis jokes were a little overused (although I usually consider one to be too much), but besides that, not much to complain about here comedy-wise. Also, I understand that all of the perverted jokes had a point, as it was another way of Ramza poking fun at himself.

I can only assume that I would have got more out of this if I had actually followed any of the Bown and Doughboy vs. Ramza war, but still, this movie had enough great jokes that I can recommend it to anyone who just wants a good laugh. There were a couple of just...wrong jokes that were carried out a bit too long, and a few other parts that just left me sitting there thinking "wha..?", but overall this was a fun laugh-out-loud worthy comedy that also doubles as a great directing showcase for Jalal. I'd give it a 79% out of 100%.