Oh yes...there was also bad Bollywood...or good, depending on your definition.
In addition to Venture Bros.*,
telophasehad us watch** a Bollywood movie called Aabra Ka Daabra. It blatantly rips off both Harry Potter and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and there were various other rips throughout. I will not go into great detail because these posts of
telophase's do it so much better. The only character name I remember is Arby, the villainess. Though I think bollywood!Harry's name was very similar to a whale's. Anyway! Using HP names...
Harry is a smug little twit, and possibly the most Gary Stu to ever Gary Stu. He's so annoying and perfect and gets everything so right on the first try that I started rooting for Malfoy the second he appeared. Malfoy also had different highlights in his hair in every scene. Ron and Hermione were both girls who had no personality and started following Harry around for no apparent reason. In think the subs confused their names, too. The menu has this little ghost (Tu Tu?) that goes around waving it's wand, but the result is that it looks like it's urinating on the menu as it goes across. Somehow, I think every single person at Hogwarts was a vital, important person from Harry's father's past. Also, there was a scene where priests (
rachelmanijatold me the proper name, but I am a very bad person and forgot it) randomly did a song and dance number on a giant statue of Shiva. She tells me that that was the equivalent of Christian priests randomly singing and dancing on a giant statue of Jesus in an otherwise100% Christian movie. I was too busy boggling at the dancing priests to be properly scandalized, I'm afraid.
All this is just the tip of the iceberg. Go click the link above.
ETA: I forgot to mention that the movie was in 3-D. This means that the people looked normal, but unless you put on the glasses, the backgrounds were all funny looking. This actually added all sorts of levels of awesomeness. it was apparently the first 3-D movie in India.
*I was shown 3 episodes out of order and thought they were very fun. Will likely watch more. I think my favorite characters were Brock, Dr. Girlfriend, and Dr. Orpheus(Morpheus?) and his daughter.
**When I say "watch" I mean she turned it on and basically made us promise to actually look at the screen a few times. I saw about 2/3s of it, and it was disgustingly easy to follow, even while I kept getting distracted by the masses of lovely books and manga that covered half the walls.
telophasehad us watch** a Bollywood movie called Aabra Ka Daabra. It blatantly rips off both Harry Potter and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and there were various other rips throughout. I will not go into great detail because these posts of
telophase's do it so much better. The only character name I remember is Arby, the villainess. Though I think bollywood!Harry's name was very similar to a whale's. Anyway! Using HP names...
Harry is a smug little twit, and possibly the most Gary Stu to ever Gary Stu. He's so annoying and perfect and gets everything so right on the first try that I started rooting for Malfoy the second he appeared. Malfoy also had different highlights in his hair in every scene. Ron and Hermione were both girls who had no personality and started following Harry around for no apparent reason. In think the subs confused their names, too. The menu has this little ghost (Tu Tu?) that goes around waving it's wand, but the result is that it looks like it's urinating on the menu as it goes across. Somehow, I think every single person at Hogwarts was a vital, important person from Harry's father's past. Also, there was a scene where priests (
rachelmanijatold me the proper name, but I am a very bad person and forgot it) randomly did a song and dance number on a giant statue of Shiva. She tells me that that was the equivalent of Christian priests randomly singing and dancing on a giant statue of Jesus in an otherwise100% Christian movie. I was too busy boggling at the dancing priests to be properly scandalized, I'm afraid.
All this is just the tip of the iceberg. Go click the link above.
ETA: I forgot to mention that the movie was in 3-D. This means that the people looked normal, but unless you put on the glasses, the backgrounds were all funny looking. This actually added all sorts of levels of awesomeness. it was apparently the first 3-D movie in India.
*I was shown 3 episodes out of order and thought they were very fun. Will likely watch more. I think my favorite characters were Brock, Dr. Girlfriend, and Dr. Orpheus(Morpheus?) and his daughter.
**When I say "watch" I mean she turned it on and basically made us promise to actually look at the screen a few times. I saw about 2/3s of it, and it was disgustingly easy to follow, even while I kept getting distracted by the masses of lovely books and manga that covered half the walls.