Larryboy and the Fib From Outer Space Review
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Is it possible to review a video that yous liked as a kid? IDK, but I want to review one of my personal favs: LarryBoy and the Fib from Outer Space.
If you combine a Batman picture show with some of SciFi Aqueduct's cheesy alien/monster movies and filter out all the adult content, this is what you'll become. Personally, I dear this moving-picture show. I love how Veggietales' co-host Larry the Cucumber gets to be a superhero; and I love how the show touches on an important moral: telling the truth. But weird stuff happens in this movie: it's corny; over-dramatic moments reign supreme; and there'due south more than spotlight on the monster and the victim than on the hero.
Now with that said, let's take a look.
Countertop scene:
-We may want to skip this, unless you're dying to hear a letter nigh how a kid is being pressured into lying about something that he did wrong.
Opening scene:
The story begins when 2 kids (or peas) walk out of a cinema. They meet a meteor (or asteroid? Explain, picture show! Okay, we'll assume that it's the monster coming downwardly.)
Nosotros and then cut to a science lab where ii scientists are just now noticing the shooting [whatever]. Well, one of them notices, while the other guy is griping about his job.
-Dude, if you wanna make your job interesting, merely shut up and practise information technology!
So the scientists put upward the LarrySignal and call LarryBoy.
-Now tell me whether or not if this reminds you of a Batman movie.
Meanwhile, at… [Luigi'due south Mansion?] our hero is on the roof, when his butler Alfred (played by Archibald Asparagus) calls him. The butler gets knocked out by a stray plunger, and Larry sees the LarrySignal up in the heaven and takes action.
-But why leave your butler lying on the ground after you accidentally knock him over?
Alfred: "I've fallen, and I can't get up."
You lot sound similar that commercial with the elderly lady on the floor, saying the aforementioned thing… yeah.
So LarryBoy rides off to find the fallen object from the sky. And later on the championship sequence, we run across the shooting star thing country in a suburban neighborhood.
-Was at that place an touch? No. It was just a small brawl… with eyes… & an antennae… & a nose…
-To avert futurity thwarting, just know that this movie has a supernatural, strange monster that never gets an explanation as to where information technology came from in space or what information technology is (besides a fib).
Junior'southward house:
Junior Asparagus and Laura Carrot are having a tea party.
-Since when did niggling boys had tea parties? (Unless, the girls forced them to…)
-Gee, I wonder who the victim is… (Hint: the kid wearing a cap, the one climbing a bookshelf…)
Junior accidentally breaks his father's antique plate [featuring a bowler stereotype from the fifties or sixties…] Laura sees this, and bails out of the tea party.
-Geez… what kind of friend is she? If she sees that her coiffure is in trouble, she abandons ship.
Junior is left with this predicament, until a small alien pops out from behind Mr. Snuggly (the teddy carry). The alien introduces himself: "… Fibrilious Minimus, but y'all can telephone call me Fib."
-By now, the kid should've questioned the alien being in his house.
The Fib sees Junior's predicament and advises that he tell his parents that Laura bankrupt the plate. Junior questions this, only Fib assures him that "people do it all the time."
-That "people practise it all the time" quote is open for contend, actually.
So when Junior's dad comes into the living room and sees the plate in pieces, Junior tells him that Laura broke the plate. Luckily for him, his dad believes him.
-Dad should've questioned his son more. Junior should've told his dad about the alien. There are then many "should've's" in this scene that information technology'due south a recipe for disaster. Somebody draw a line here!
When Dad leaves, the Fib pops out over again, but this time, he's a piddling bigger than before. Junior questions this, simply Fib tells him that he had "always been this size."
-Funny how Fib tin can tell people to prevarication, & and then turn around & bullshit the people that he tells to lie.
Anyways, Fib praises Junior for lying, and they both get out the house and go into town.
-Inferior doesn't tell his parents about leaving with a stranger? Don't his parents know anything?
LarryMobile scene:
LarryBoy still searches for the space object, until his butler [Facetimes?] him & says to keep looking. Our hero keeps searching, passing Junior & Fib, as if they were regulars in boondocks.
-This was where LarryBoy should've pulled over & captured the Fib. That would've been "The Terminate" earlier everyone got hurt. Just where the plot is going was too tempting for the writers…
LarryBoy drives away, and and so Inferior's other friend Percy Pea drops by. When Percy comes, Fib hides in the alley.
-Come on, Fib. Why the obvious evil demeanor? Why not trick people into thinking that yous're good? Or… are yous going to exercise that subsequently on? IDK. Stuff like that is merely as well subtle!
Percy confronts Inferior about breaking Dad's plate. (Plainly, Laura ratted out Inferior to him.) Merely with Fib telling him to lie, Junior tells another lie, just this time accusing Laura'due south blood brother, Lenny. But like his dad, Percy takes the allurement.
-Geez, how long until people become less lenient?
As soon as Percy leaves, Fib comes dorsum, and this fourth dimension, he'due south much taller than Junior. Again, he lies to Junior almost "putting on a few pounds" to explain his grown.
-Likewise, look at how Fib tells Junior this next sentence. He has this attitude as if to say, "Don't you worry; everything's gonna exist A-okay."
-Look, the line is: "…I'll e'er be your little fib."
As Fib says that line, look at how he'due south looking downward at the camera! I have a few theories on this:
1. The script is taped to the camera, simply the words are also small; so Fib leans in to read his line.
(Or…)
2. Fib must accept this "matter" for Junior; he's like looking at the child affectionately… weird!
-This where Tim Gregory (the voice thespian for Fib) should've known that his role was going to suck. I mean, that'southward a terrible line! Who would write that?! As well, little is known nigh Tim Gregory. Where did Big Idea find this guy? Did they take a last-minute casting call somewhere?
Anyhow, after that WTF moment, Fib praises Junior for lying, saying that he has "a gift."
-How is lying a gift? It'due south more like a curse.
LarryMobile scene ii:
Nosotros then cutting to LarryBoy passing Junior and Fib… again!
-What'south with him? He keeps failing to capture the Fib! Does he but stare at his shoelaces the whole time he's driving? Just remember, guy, something barbarous from space, and is supposed to be taken seriously. I guess Larry's awkwardness is being used to the convenience to the plot.
LarryBoy decides to call it quits, despite Alfred advising him not to.
-"At that place are no space aliens in Bumblyburg." Yes, there's a infinite alien in Bumblyburg. You passed him twice.
Aisle scene:
Junior and Fib run into Laura and Lenny Carrot and Percy Pea. His friends are mad at him for lying. And what does Fib do? He hides once more.
-I promise you lot, that'll be the final time Fib hides his face from other people. But wait.
Junior is confronted well-nigh breaking his dad's plate.
-Wow. All this conflict over a plate?
Junior is panicking. So, as a last resort, he makes upward a story near how a grouping of aliens that switch brains with cows, and pause into his house and break the plate. Percy finds out that Inferior got that story from a picture that they saw days ago.
-This lie was more outrageous than the first two lies. Notice?
Finally, we come across that Fib has grown and then huge, that… eh, apparently makes Godzilla look similar a tamed cadger at a petting zoo. Fib grabs Junior and shows his face up in boondocks.
-This rampage scene may remind you of Godzilla. Well, permit's see. Fib charges through town, steps on cars, and smashes buildings.
The boondocks'south officeholder Scooter sees the monster, and does the noblest thing: exit of his squad auto and scram before the Fib crushes the vehicle.
-Is he the but person in this town'due south police force? That sucks. No wonder law-breaking is big in this town, and they need LarryBoy.
So the call for LarryBoy is made past the scaredy-cat police force officeholder. And where is our dashing hero at a time like this?: At home playing a cheesy knock-off of Candyland.
Manor scene:
Larry is losing in the board game, while Alfred is obviously winning. He finally looks out his window and sees that Bumblyburg is in turmoil.
-There's only 1 edifice on fire, lights flashing, and people screaming. Yous know, Godzilla tin can do more collateral impairment than that.
Larry quits the board game to go save the day, delivering this line as he leaves:
Larry: "Alfred, I got work to practise. Consider our game… postponed."
-Cliché…
Town-in-ruins scene:
The Fib is still on a rampage, and Junior asks why he'due south attacking the town. Fib says something most fibs growing, and that the child now belongs to him.
-Fib's tone is so serious that it… well, makes the Joker from the blithe Batman series wait similar a kid clown with a expiry wish.
LarryBoy finally shows upwardly and challenges the Fib. While that'southward happening, Junior's then-called friends Laura, Lenny, and Percy hide in the same alley that the giant Fib came out of.
-Why hide in an alley? Merely run home or somewhere safe! It's like they want more problem!
Fib challenges to come and get him, which turns out to be a big mistake, because as soon equally Larry gets dorsum in his LarryMobile, the monster heads for the water belfry.
-The angle that we're seeing Fib escape is and so… awkward. I mean, look at the bending!
It's like we're looking upward his skirt or something (Well, he's not actually wearing a skirt.).
-Plus, notice that there are no National Guard soldiers, tanks, or any army equipment trying to end Fib. If there was a continuing army in Bumblyburg to kill the monster, then the motion picture could've ended in seconds. But no, the town is relying on one little cucumber hero to take on a 30-50 ft. tall monster who has a hostage. Kind strange, huh?
LarryBoy tells Alfred what's going on with the monster, and Alfred suggests that the hero use the new buttons on the auto's dashboard. Although the buttons aren't labels, Alfred agrees to tell them which button to printing to get through the mission.
Meanwhile, the Fib starts climbing the water tower.
Fib: "Permit's see if your lilliputian faithful friend can help y'all up here."
-And allow's see if my fatty ass tin can climb all the way up while I'm off scene for a minute or so, while the photographic camera focuses on the hero trying to work his car. I should know, 'cuz… that'due south what the script indicates… I peeked.
LarryMobile scene:
So LarryBoy starts his machine and races to the water tower. He has problem with the buttons, but and so Alfred tells him about the correct button to brand the machine fly… just afterward Larry unknowingly presses the incorrect buttons.
-You know the clumsiness with the controls & buttons is fueling the overdramatic-ness of the plot. But hey, this movie will feel more overdramatic schmaltz subsequently a few more scenes.
So Larry presses the "fly" button, and the machine becomes a plane, sending him upward. The Fib sees this, as well as anybody else in town.
LarryPlane scene:
LarryBoy learns that the monster is called a lie… (no, this is the truth. The monster is called a lie… Yeah, the dialogue makes information technology complicated.) Larry asks how to stop the monster, but Alfred doesn't take the reply still.
-What's with the delay? The reply is then obvious. Y'all've merely been told what the monster was. But remember "What'southward the opposite of a prevarication?" & then get from there! But just like the overdramatic schmaltz in this movie, nosotros have the delays in the plot… By the way, what's the plot of this movie?
Is it…
A. Junior hanging out with Fib, and then regretting it
B. LarryBoy searching for the Fib, and eventually dueling with him
Nobody actually knows. I hateful, the focal point of the movie is about the lying and how that's causing all the issues, merely we got several things going on in this movie, that we've lost touch on who the existent main character is.
On the VHS & DVD covers, you have LarryBoy posing on a rooftop, simply when you watch the movie, we focus on him off and on. When it comes to the scenes, it'southward almost as if he's playing hide-and-seek with us. Just isn't he supposed to be the principal character in this movie, since he's on the friggin' DVD cover?
Finally, not wanting to delay anymore, LarryBoy goes assurance out and jumps out of his flying vehicle. Fib looks upwards and sees the plane come at him… and wing past him.
-What the heck?! That aeroplane could've slammed into him and he would exist dead. And then Junior would've been saved, and that would be "The Stop." Simply no.
Water tower scene:
Fib hears Larry screaming from above him.
-Please allow LarryBoy come at him similar a missile…
(LarryBoy is falling towards Fib.)
Get LARRYBOY! KNOCK HIS Cake OFF!!!
The Fib sees LarryBoy come up at him. Simply then, Fib catches Larry with his free hand; and he squeezes the life out of Larry.
-You know, this is a pretty dark scene for some viewers. But don't you worry: at least LarryBoy isn't bleeding profusely from being squeezed… otherwise this movie wouldn't exist 1000-rated.
-Plus, nothing can stop the Fib! I mean, this movie had and then many opportunities to go rid of this guy. Plain & simple: simply put Rex Kong or Godzilla on their donkey and finish them! Information technology tin't be that hard! But you know, the pic keeps the monster to the convenience to the plot.
LarryBoy now finds himself trapped in the monster's clutches and is quick to learn that he can't do anything to stop Fib.
-Big bleepin' surprise…
Then Fib tells Junior (in his high and mightiest vocalization always in the movie) about how lies can grow just large enough to swallow a person. This reveals that the Fib is planning to eat Inferior.
-I wish I could have this scene seriously, only with how the scene is being shot, I but find myself trying to count the number of zits that that guy has. In fact, some of the shots are simply awkward, if you wait closely at them. Some of the shots are shut to their faces; some zoom in to create whacked-out suspense… weird, huh?
Finally, the Fib decides to swallow LarryBoy first.
-Okay, wait a sec. How does he come upwardly with that decision after he just told Inferior that he was going to eat him, non LarryBoy? That doesn't make any sense.
So, while Fib slowly puts LarryBoy into his mouth, we get this obnoxious scene where Alfred is trying to find the answer to their problem, but accidentally unplugs his computer in the process.
-You lot know, I could ship x-20 text letters past the time LarryBoy is placed inside Fib's mouth.
-Plus, I could postal service a web log entry by the time Alfred plugs his computer back in.
-I mean, come on now! This is merely giddy! How long does it actually take to put something in your mouth? And how long does it take to plug something back in? Retrieve!!!!!
So Fib is now sucking on LarryBoy like a Tootsie Roll, when Alfred claims that Junior can stop the prevarication.
-Duh!
Junior hears this and comes out with the truth, saying that he, in fact, broke the plate…
-…that wasn't so dang important to begin with.
As Junior tells the truth, the Fib spits out LarryBoy and shrinks to cypher.
-It's most friggin' fourth dimension the Fib gets the axe in this picture show. This movie had then many opportunities to practise so earlier!
LarryBoy returns Junior to his parents. Junior waits to exist punished, but Mom tells him that what he had been through today was "punishment enough."
-And so, are you proverb that being held hostage by a supernatural animal and on the edge of being swallowed was "punishment plenty"? Are yous high? And by the way, Mom… where the hell were you lot and Dad while the Fib was running effectually lose with your kid unsupervised?!
And then, being none-the-wiser, the parents hug Junior and LarryBoy disappears into the nighttime to look out for more than law-breaking.
The story ends with… a blood-red fib landing from space and going to somebody else's business firm?
-I don't think and so. Why? Considering of the Rumor Weed in this picture show'southward sequel, that's why.
When the story ends, LarryBoy joins Bob the Love apple to recite a verse from the Bible near what they learned from the story: John viii:32b, they mentioned. Afterwards, they sing a theme song most LarryBoy (sung past Nicole C. Mullen).
-Okay, this was made in 1997. Only how much exercise you want to bet that the "Rock On, LarryBoy" song by Michael Farren (or the corn band Shux) was mode better than this vocal?
Anyways, that was LarryBoy and the Fib from Outer Space. Now despite all the comments that I made on this review, does it actually piece of work?
Well, yous know how those old drug PSAs from the 80s and 90s aim on scaring people (especially kids) not to do drugs. I think that'southward the kind of approach that this pic took… well, not with the drugs, but with the lie beingness the form of a monster that threatens to eat people.
The storyline isn't all that perfect, because in that location were some plot holes involved. There were over-the-top dramatic moments that wouldn't even fit into a decent horror movie. Oh, yeah, and what happened to LarryBoy beingness the main grapheme hither? (He's on the friggin' VHS/DVD embrace!)
Okay, then that was all my bad stuff. So, what did I like near the pic? Well, it started a popular trend in the Veggietales series. The creativity was noticeable. Plus, I don't care if this movie's got issues; I don't care if screwed upwardly in some areas. I however like it as is. Well, I wouldn't recommend this to younger kids, but maybe kids at the age of 5 or 6 can get alee and see this movie. (Well, I don't really know what age limit there is for this movie. I mean, I commencement saw this movie when I was 11; and fifty-fifty to this solar day, I nonetheless picket it.)
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