Ringers, a review...

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

Well, I had the chance to see "Ringers" this weekend. A friend of mine brought an advanced screening copy to our gathering this weekend. I'll start out by saying that I've gone to Amazon.com and cancelled my preorder. Why? Well, it just wasn't what I expected.
It's actually more of a documentary about the books/films than about the fans... and I already have a lot of those. I thought it would be highly more fan-based, but it was not. The fans only got, I'd say, about 85% of the time in the film. The best part was this kid they interviewed in line. When they asked what he'd do it Lurtz was approaching him, the kid replies, "I'd kick him in the weiner." Other than that, I actually got kind of bored. Most of the shots of fans were probably humiliating for them... or they were so short that you didn't even have time to blink! It saddened me that the subtitle for this film is "The Lord of the Fans," but not that many fans were featured. Most footage came from one line party that they went to... and here I thought they traveled around to lots of cons to get footage.
Also, the parts about the books were rather drab. It wasn't anything that any other documentary hadn't already covered. Also, they tried to do it in a "fun" way, but it just looked like they were ripping off Monty Python's animations and adding campy voice overs to it. Not really all that enjoyable.
The part where they go through the 60's just ended up being annoying. Too much of these same four actors just trying to look hip, and dancing, and it just got stupid, really. Too much psycedelic interlude stuff, too.

So, yeah, that's my review. I'll be interested to hear what others think. So, please... post your reviews.