Dave
2009-09-13 11:38:12 UTC
Not quite as bad as I remembered it, but still pretty grating.
This is the one where four teenaged boys team up with DOC. Obviously
the concept was a big loser, since even with a hook at the end,they
never turn up again -- in fact, I've never even heard of a fragment or
outline containing them.
And good riddance. There's the DOC-clone, with all the personality of
a hall monitor. The guy with the bizarre schemes to make money, who
you keep thinking will say, "Gee your dad' been kidnapped. Maybe we
can sell your story to th emovies for big bucks!" The brainy guy, who
speaks in fortune cookie riddles. and the guy who is gat/funny, but is
just fat.
SPOILER ALERT
The gold ogres turn out to be evil circus midgets, of course. This is
one of the warning signs of a lame pulp plot, of course -- any use of
midgets (this one also has caves, too).
The plot is "So fantastic, no one will believe it," because of course
it is so fantastic no one would believe it. Another example of the
criminal mastermind not doing cost-benefit analysis. When your front
end includes a gang armed with rifles, machineguns, and grenades, the
aforementioned midgets, a seaplane, and an secret underground
limestone lair on an isolated island, you've put all of your eggs in
one all-or-nothing basket, just to gain control over some factories in
Nowhereville, Wisconsin.
Dave
This is the one where four teenaged boys team up with DOC. Obviously
the concept was a big loser, since even with a hook at the end,they
never turn up again -- in fact, I've never even heard of a fragment or
outline containing them.
And good riddance. There's the DOC-clone, with all the personality of
a hall monitor. The guy with the bizarre schemes to make money, who
you keep thinking will say, "Gee your dad' been kidnapped. Maybe we
can sell your story to th emovies for big bucks!" The brainy guy, who
speaks in fortune cookie riddles. and the guy who is gat/funny, but is
just fat.
SPOILER ALERT
The gold ogres turn out to be evil circus midgets, of course. This is
one of the warning signs of a lame pulp plot, of course -- any use of
midgets (this one also has caves, too).
The plot is "So fantastic, no one will believe it," because of course
it is so fantastic no one would believe it. Another example of the
criminal mastermind not doing cost-benefit analysis. When your front
end includes a gang armed with rifles, machineguns, and grenades, the
aforementioned midgets, a seaplane, and an secret underground
limestone lair on an isolated island, you've put all of your eggs in
one all-or-nothing basket, just to gain control over some factories in
Nowhereville, Wisconsin.
Dave