Snoopy reporter Gina goes for the front page scoop but it looks like her heroine alias Athena’s defeat may end up making the headline instead. The beautiful heroine starts to kick butt until she looses her belt and ends up on the nasty end of a gut punching session from both villains. But like every good heroine she turns it around, regains her belt and cleans up the riff raff before taking a self photo of her victory for her scoop.
The idea and plot are not the most original but does sound like the makings of a good video but this video, unlike our heroine, does not come out punching and does not recover from a gut punching in the acting and directing areas. Here’s the thing, Gina was as good as one expects in this genre (maybe even better on acting the beat down) but there are three actors in the clip, both who fall below average in all their acting abilities and average this vid out under average expectations for the genre. Minimal or low end directing and the poor sound quality mix that has you pumping up the volume for the dialoge only to blow them out for the FX volume certainly did not help this. Gina makes a great looking heroine and her outfit is great. The villainess however , while also pretty, does not sell me on her role and neither does her outfit. The boots and gloves where a good try but the boots and outfit just do not seem to fit. The villainess’ acting quite low end edging on painful. As often is the case part of the blame has to go to the director but even I good one could not save her.
Lets take an example here of how she does not know who to read or deliver lines and how proper direction could make an easy save. In part two of this vid there is the line (punctuation left out on purpose) “Not so tough now are you,” a classic line one never gets too tired of hearing, right next to “You’ll never get away with this!” However, put into text grammatically she delivers this, “Not so tough now, are you?” This comes out as a pure question not the rhetorical question used to mock, “Not so tough now are you?” It’s a five second retake to correct! Props and setting were good, only comment would be that the room could use a picture or some colour unless it was meant to look like and interrogation room. Once again, just an extra few minutes to set up. The big problem with this video is it suffers either from inexperience or lack of effort to meet its vision. Either way it falls below what most genre fans have come to expect when all things are considered saved from a solid below average rating only from the heroine in it.
2.5 out of 5 capes
(I believe this is one of their earlier videos and is not representative of much of their new material)
-- Edited by Alex on Friday 10th of April 2009 12:42:24 PM
