Rifftrax Year: 2010
Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
Parade of Aquatic Champions is one of those shorts in which a narrator gushes about how wonderful people who are actually about exorcising are while the people sitting in the theater munching on popcorn and candy have to listen to it. Here they show off competitive swimmers and divers, and we see a lot of diving, splashing, and belly flops. Maybe a bit TOO much.
This is about average for the type of short it is. It's a monotonous ten minutes of people swimming, which doesn't replicate the fun of actually being in the crowd. It tries so hard though.
Initially riffed for Rifftrax Live's Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza show, this is a studio version featuring pretty much the very same riffs. Unfortunately this short was hands down the weakest link in the Live show, but maybe away from the context of those superior shorts that surrounded it then it might impress? No, not really.
There's not really a lot here they find inspiration with. It's just a lot of similar footage and most of it inspires similar riffs. There is some fun had at a swimmer named "Larry" who appears to be a woman, but that's about as different as it gets. Overall I chucked a few times, but this just isn't a strong offering, Live or otherwise.
Thumbs Down
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