My Name is Bruce

Bruce Campbell has made a name for himself with some of the best B movies out there.  So he decided to direct a movie that spoofs the typecast that he became.

 

It's got all of the classic scenes you would expect from a good B movie.  The bad costumes, the decapitations, and a far fetched demon that has a simple weakness.  It all starts with four teenagers who begin breaking stuff in an old graveyard.  One of the teenagers, Jeff, takes an item from a grave that he shouldn't have taken.  The item belongs to Guan-Di, the Chinese God of War and Protector of the Dead, who also happens to have a soft spot for bean curd.

 

Bruce Campbell happens to be working on another film close by.  Jeff idolizes Bruce and wants him to help defeat Guan-Di.  Like some fans, Jeff has blurred reality with movies and thinks that Bruce Campbell is more like one of the characters that he played than a person in real life.  Bruce however, thinks that it is a stunt by his agent for a birthday surprise, so he plays along.

 

Bruce dashes the dreams of everyone in the town of Goldlick, including his number one fan.  But then redeems himself by coming back to fight Guan-Di.

 

It's a lovable laugh at the B movies that Bruce Campbell has made.  It's not necessary to have viewed a Bruce Campbell movie prior to viewing this one, but it would help greatly if you have prior experience with Bruce.

 

I give this movie 3 1/2 out of 5 BC 5000 chainsaws.

Alien Apocalypse

Aliens have come to Earth to loot the planet of trees.  They are like giant, space termites.  But these termites also eat human heads and fingers.

 

In Oregon, the "mites" have a sawmill, just outside of Portland, that has several human slaves.  If the slaves escape, the bounty hunters corral them up and return them to the camp.  As a punishment for fleeing, they get a finger removed.  The slaves have to get the lumber ready for transport back to the home planet of the "mites", where it is being sold for food.

 

A team of four people have returned from a 40 mission to launch a space probe.  They have been in cryogenic sleep and did not know about the alien invasion.  Why did they have to be in cryogenic sleep, I don't know.  All I know is that they came hurling back to Earth from space and are about to become slaves themselves.

 

Bruce Campbell plays Dr. Ivan.  He and his love interest, Kelly, are able to break out of the sawmill and make it to Freedom Valley.  The ex-slaves of Freedom Valley do not want to fight.  They just want to co-exist with nature.  Sounds like an old hippie commune to me.  But, they all believe that the president is building a resistance army to fight the aliens.  This is far from the truth.  In fact, the president is tucked away with several other members of congress, just watching the days go by.

 

Dr. Ivan heads up a small band of people and they storm the sawmill.  It's one of the funniest parts of the movie.  Several shots are reused, but you see someone using a sword or shooting an arrow.  The next thing you see are body parts flying about or aliens getting arrows to the eye.  It's comical for sure.

 

There is not much to watch in this film other than Bruce Campbell.  It's no Army of Darkness, but he does a good job delivering the lines and fighting the aliens.

 

I give this movie 1 out of 5 alien termites.