Purely Joyful Movie!

Absolutely the worst movie.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Watch this if you like offbeat, "offensive", existential, absurd humor. It truly is an achievement how every episode can have so many layers and provide non-stop entertainment. It's an assault on everything that anyone holds "sacred" and it's brilliant! It's baffling how 12 years ago this show aired on MTV, especially if you consider that MTV in 2017 is more conservative(not in the traditional American sense but more in the preachy, self-righteous, social justice sense with the stuff they churn out to "protect" the people they consider "vulnerable" while condemning specific groups of people). This show holds nothing back and presents everyone and everything under the same light. There is a segment about the police in one episode that says everything there is to say about the subject through children voice overs that would cause riots if it was aired today. There is another episode that has a character named Middle America (who gets thrown a watermelon with black-face if you pay attention) and a segment with hillbillies presented as complete idiots. Anyway, my point is that everything is fair game for this show and that's the way more shows should be. The show presents very realistic, "dark", controversial subjects in an absurd, creative way that sometimes borders on unintelligible. Heed the warning at the start of the show and stay away if you're easily offended. I'm not even American but I don't like the way everything seems to become more P.C. as years go by, since it makes it difficult to find entertainment that pushes the envelope and, more importantly, is apolitical and "nihilistic" in a sense. I'd love for this show to air again, just to witness the massive triggering of the masses.

Wonder Showzen, the brainchild of PFFR (Vernon Chatman and John Lee), is THE most offensive thing I've ever seen, and I've seen every episode of South Park! It's so obscure, that you can't help but laugh. It's pretty shocking what these kids say, but that's what gave it the extra zest! Wonder Showzen is considered legendary for it's use of children (for example, in the intro, they have a picture of a crying child on Santa's lap) and it's use of obscure stock footage (for example, the have footage of a fox deteriorating) all used in a creative and dark way. The main amount of the show was amazing and clever, but there are two episodes in particular that are just not sub-par with Wonder Showzen, Mathmatics and Clarence's Special Report, but besides that, the show is pure genius.There are only two shows I've enjoyed from MTV, Beavis and Butthead and This. Such a show like this must be experienced...unless you're easily offended.

I never heard of Wonder Showzen until the other night, when I randomly found it on the shelf at the local rental place. A quick glance at its description on the back of the cover sold me instantly. What I didn't expect was how funny it was. Sickly funny. I've never seen a show so blatantly and brilliantly awful. It's anarchy at its finest, packaged neatly in a vintage Sesame Street vibe that only kids born between 1969-1979 can really understand. Watching this brought back memories of watching The Electric Company and Sesame Street through the mind of someone mentally ill tripping on acid. LOVE IT. I don't think anyone could top the genius of Wonder Showzen. In a way I'm glad there were only 2 seasons of it, because it would have been a shame to see it go downhill and lose its sense of vitriol and vim. Highlights include "Beat Kids!" and educational films with kid commentary (saying gems like "DADDY!" when a slaughtered pig appears on screen) and Muppet-ish puppets in pornographic situations - it's everything a cynical adult secretly thinks about kids' TV, but manifested with unabashed glee. GET IT.

Ah, having a boy dressed as Hitler ask people about the Youth today (get it? The Hitler Youth??) seems like the demented dream of Trey Parker or Matt Stone, who, incidentally probably wouldn't have the stones to try it with a real kid in a real place. This is a delicious, delirious take on the kids shows we grew up watching that is so smartly put together that it elicits wonder at every creepy turn. The first half of the show about "Patience" which tried the audience's patience with its slow, boring repetitive nature is actually rewound and played in its entirety backwards once the show's runner realizes that they're losing the audience and then a new episode on "SPEED" (edited for TV) is played in its place. It's just one example out of a hundred real risks the show takes in order to bring the shine out of that old Tom Green commercial surreal. What makes things work so well is how the show plays it straight. It's not a winking, nudging thing. It's a devastating scathing commentary on the life cycle, our world, and our social constructs and the balckhole they all inhabit. It's just so damn funny about the tragedy of it all. Kids will say the darndest things.