Rifftrax Year: 2013
Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
Nicolas Cage stars in this film based on the Marvel comic, as a death defying daredevil is gifted with extraordinary demonic powers from hell itself...oh wait, wrong Ghost Rider.
This somber and depressing short is about a boy who is haunted by a girl who died in a bus accident. She urges him to read up on bus safety, but at least she's not crawling out of a TV and punishing everyone who might still be using VHS like other ghost girls I know. As luck would have it, the bus is in an accident the following day. Instead of being freaked out and accusing the ghost girl of being the freakishly supernatural cause, he leads everyone to safety with what he has learned.
Educational short films can be worse. The story presented here is silly and poorly acted, but the safety protocol emergencies presented are well executed. There's nothing too wrong with Ghost Rider other than it's limited production value and the fact that it's title rips off a Marvel comic, leading one to think this will be cooler than it really is. I will say maybe it gets so plot heavy that it's lessons are a little buried in it. But it does give a sense of urgency to learning what it wants to teach, which is something I suppose.
This is a short that was riffed by Incognito Cinema Warriors XP before Rifftrax got ahold of it. I didn't think much of the ICWXP riff, but held out hope that Rifftrax might be able to do something more with it. I laughed a bit more at this version of the short, but ultimately felt it still left something to be desired.
Ghost Rider has so much bad acting and poor production that it really sets itself up to be made fun of. The Riffers never seem to run with what you would expect, sometimes taking more generic and silly routes, possibly to counterweight the depressing tone of the piece. There are a lot of riffs on out main character interpreting that the ghost is his imaginary girlfriend, which are pretty funny, but it feels like there should be more here to run with. The short is fine, though like the ICWXP version before it it's a missed opportunity.
This is a short that was riffed by Incognito Cinema Warriors XP before Rifftrax got ahold of it. I didn't think much of the ICWXP riff, but held out hope that Rifftrax might be able to do something more with it. I laughed a bit more at this version of the short, but ultimately felt it still left something to be desired.
Ghost Rider has so much bad acting and poor production that it really sets itself up to be made fun of. The Riffers never seem to run with what you would expect, sometimes taking more generic and silly routes, possibly to counterweight the depressing tone of the piece. There are a lot of riffs on out main character interpreting that the ghost is his imaginary girlfriend, which are pretty funny, but it feels like there should be more here to run with. The short is fine, though like the ICWXP version before it it's a missed opportunity.
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