Extended Preview: DOUBLE DRAGON
Added 2021-02-26 20:29:11 +0000 UTCIt's finally here! Another in the pantheon of 90s video game adaptations, our riff of Double Dragon is now available.
The beloved arcade beat ‘em up is now a movie! Kind of!
The video game Double Dragon had a complex plot: “Bad guys punch girl so good guy punches bad guys.” Not exactly the kind of thing that fills 90 minutes of screen time, unless you punch really slowly. But this thin gruel allowed for the director to include many deep cuts, references, and easter eggs, such as the touching subplot where Billy Lee eats an entire roast turkey that he found in an alley to refill his life bar.
Billy and his brother Jimmy are two martial arts whizzes with IQs on par with Harry and Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber. When an evil guy with evil guy facial hair played by Terminator 2’s Robert Patrick, steals their family Macguffin, they undertake a quest: to find out who his personal stylist was and make sure they never harm anyone again.
Standing in their way is Abobo, who, while not an attractive man in the video game, at least did not resemble a schnitzel made from a barnyard animal’s infected genitals. Fortunately, Jimmy and Billy have the help of Alyssa Milano, who is the daughter of the world’s dumbest police chief, based on his inability to tell that his daughter is always wearing a ridiculous wig.
You can download this preview video here.
Comments
I think one of our writers may have participated in that one year? Not positive...
RiffTrax
2021-06-25 19:56:12 +0000 UTCWow, a reference to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). That was unexpected.
Shawn Parks
2021-06-24 10:24:30 +0000 UTCOh boy, this was a bad movie. We just laughed and shook our heads while watching it.
david l shields jr
2021-03-04 21:44:00 +0000 UTCI have 140 orders since 2016, but many more VODs since I rarely buy just one at a time!
Philip Stephens
2021-03-02 03:41:20 +0000 UTCThis looks great. Soon it will be mine.
David Scudder
2021-02-27 08:14:37 +0000 UTCPlotline: “Bad guys punch girl so good guy punches bad guys.” Doesn't this describe every Shirley Temple film?
George MP
2021-02-27 06:20:10 +0000 UTCI've had "Servo" in my e-mail addy since, oh... '96... ;)
Thomas Backman
2021-02-26 23:09:08 +0000 UTCHmmm... Um... 690... Orders... Is that bad? Yeah, that's probably some sort of cry for help... ;) Not counting This one... LMBO!!
Thomas Backman
2021-02-26 23:08:29 +0000 UTCNot bad, Torgo. 144 or so orders here.
Servo
2021-02-26 22:21:53 +0000 UTC
