Rifftrax Year: 2015
Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
Willy brings a toy space capsule to school, and since this is a short called "Getting Angry" I'm pretty sure we can all see where this is going. A ball on the playground is thrown in the ill-fated toy's direction and it is broken. Willy then takes the ball in retaliation and runs around until a teacher breaks up the..."fight" I guess and asks what is going on.
The moral of this short is to temper one's self and assess a situation, to determine whether intent was malicious or if the situation really isn't as bad as you initially feared. The tale is fine, though the scenario is a bit clumsy. But yet, Getting Angry is in rough shape and is a bit incomplete. In fact the beginning portion of the short is missing (including the title card), though we can easily fill in the blanks. I don't want to judge something that is incomplete, though I have a rough idea.
Even if it isn't complete, there's a foundation here for a solid, if brief, riff. There are jabs at the rough shape of the short, the taunting of school children, and, in what is probably the most inspired of them all, there is even a reference or two to the film Rashomon. Those who buy Getting Angry won't be angry, because it's a fairly amusing seven minutes.
Just be warned that it's only seven minutes. It's very brief and it never gets a chance to pick up the pace. But I laughed, and I think others will too.
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