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Dudley Do-Right
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May 31, 2023
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22:28
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(After a shortened version of the opening, we cut to NC sitting on the couch.)
NC: Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it, so you don't have to. With the Brenaissance reaching an emotional triumph...
(An image of Brendan Fraser holding his Best Actor Oscar for The Whale is shown.)
NC (vo): ...resulting in Brendan Fraser winning Best Actor...
NC: ...I think it only makes sense to look at his most challenging, complex, and even daring performance worthy of an Oscar winner. I'm of course referring to...punchline.
(The title cared for Dudley Do-Right is shown, and scenes from the movie begin to play.)
NC (vo): Released in 1999, Dudley Do-Right was trying to write off the success of the surprise hit George of the Jungle. They even mention George of the Jungle three times in the trailer.
Announcer: From the creator of George of the Jungle, and the star of George of the Jungle, and the acclaimed director who saw George of the Jungle...
NC: Yeah, okay, that's pretty funny.
NC (vo): Cashing in on another Jay Ward animated series, Dudley Do-Right didn't exactly win over audiences like George did. It bombed pretty hard, and the few people that did see it usually wish they didn't.
(The opening of the Jay Ward cartoon on which the film is based is shown.)
NC (vo): I remember seeing the cartoon satirizing old silent melodramas and liking it okay...
(Cut back to the live-action film.)
NC (vo): ...but I kept feeling it worked better as a series of shorts rather than an hour-and-a-half narrative. I've gotten requests to look this over for some time now, and seeing how Fraser's streak cred could easily buy and sell me to...well, myself, though I don't think I'm worth the money, I don't think he'd mind the revisit, so let's take a closer look.
NC: Let's see how Do-Right does wrong.
(The following text appears on screen: "FIRST CRITIC TO EVER MAKE THAT JOKE".)
NC: Yeah, I know. This is Dudley Do-Right.
(The Universal logo appears.)
NC (vo): Ha! If you're so like George of the Jungle, how come Disney didn't buy you yet? Eh, screw it. I'm still gonna rank this in the shitty live-action remake tier list.
(Said tier list is shown, and Dudley Do-Right moves up and down until it finally settles on the "B" rank. We then open with a Fractured Fairy Tales short, "The Phox, the Box, & the Lox".)
NC (vo): So the film actually opens with a Fractured Fairy Tales short, which...feels appropriate.
NC: My only fear is, without it, the film is only...
(The text "1hr 15 min" appears onscreen.)
NC (vo): ...an hour, fifteen long, which makes me think they added this just to reach the bare minimum running time for a movie. And, as you've probably noticed in the past... (Posters of the following movies pop up: We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story, Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Jungle Book 2, and The Master of Disguise.) ...that usually means quality.
Phreddie J. Phox: P-H-O-X, Phox. My card.
Narrator: There was no one so clever driving a bargain.
(A shot of the "Studio Executive" text on the business card and one of the 20th Century Fox logo pop up next to NC.)
NC: Well, that joke would've worked better if Fox actually made it.
(We are shown a treasure chest with a warning engraved upon it: "To take my treasure you may try, but he who opens me shall die!")
Desmond Dullwit: Whoever opens that box is gonna die!
Phox: How'd you know that?
Desmond: Well, I was, like, listening to the first part of the story, you know.
NC (vo): It has the same feel as the Jay Ward cartoon, and honestly might give the impression the film is gonna be okay. It has a similar style, similar humor, even some of the same voice actors. My favorite is the fox tricking a guy who's so stupid, he only came in second for village idiot, so he couldn't even do that right.
Phox: The legend said that whoever opened the box would die!
Desmond: But they didn't say when!
NC: Oh, I'm assuming right after this short is over!
(We then open to the main film.)
NC (vo): On that note, the movie does begin right after, with honestly a pretty funny idea. We see the main characters as children wearing similar clothes and having the same one-note personalities as their future melodrama parodies.
Young Snidely Whiplash (Jeremy Bergman): I'm gonna be the bad guy. I get to do stuff like this... (smashes an ice cream cone over the young Dudley's head) and this! (kisses the young Nell Fenwick)
NC: (as Snidely) That's right, all the world will soon know the name (raises fists in the air) Snidely Weinstein Whiplash!
NC (vo): I kinda like the faces of indifference Nell gives being kissed by either the villain or the hero.
(The young Dudley kisses Nell.)
Young Nell (Ashley Yarman): Why, Dudley...
NC (vo; as Nell): I'm just thinking I have better chemistry with the horse. (normal) Dudley of course says he wants to be a Royal Canadian yaksman– I mean, Mountie. (A shot of the title characters from Ren and Stimpy as Mounties pops up.) Sorry, wrong cartoon. And as the credits roll, he grows up into Brendan Fraser. He tries to stop bad guys from doing bad guy things, like Snidely Whiplash, played now by Alfred Molina.
(Snidely leads a gang of bank robbers into a bank. Snidely pulls a gun on a teller.)
Teller: ...help you?
Snidely: Uh, could you wait 'til everyone's in, please?
(Outside, Snidely's gang is so huge that they are all having trouble getting into the small bank.)
NC: (shrugs) I mean, okay, this isn't too bad yet. That's...
NC (vo): ...a cute visual joke. I wonder what point things start going downhill.
(Dudley, sitting backwards on his horse, looks out through a pair of binoculars to see what's going on. The sound of flatulence is heard, coming from the horse. Dudley looks down at the horse's rear.)
NC (vo): Ah!
(As we cut back to NC, an image of a welcome mat is shown in the corner, reading "WELCOME TO THE POINT WHERE THINGS START GOING DOWNHILL".)
NC: With a nicely written welcome mat!
NC (vo): Snidely hides the gold in a mine, which seems a little backwards, but Dudley goes to confront him.
Dudley: Why do you have a shotgun?
Snidely: I was hunting for vampires.
Dudley: Vampires?
Snidely: 'Fraid so.
Dudley: Vampires...
NC: So the casting honestly seems pretty spot-on.
NC (vo): Everyone seems to match the roles and clearly puts their all into it. But often, the timing seems really off.
Dudley: Really are vampires around here?
Snidely: Certainly.
Dudley: I have to go.
Snidely: I thought you might.
Dudley: Um, so long.
Snidely: Ciao.
NC: That was a fine rehearsal, but could we try one with jokes?
NC (vo): The plan is a little confusing, but Snidely literally railroads the bank president into signing over all the mortgages to him.
(Snidely then barges in on a mother and her children in a small house, holding a mortgage in his hand.)
Snidely: Pay up now, or this quaint little fixer-upper is mine!
NC (vo): I don't get this guy. He has gold and a bank president who will sign anything. Shouldn't he have all he wants by now?
(The entrance to the town the movie is set in, Semi-Happy Valley, is now renamed Whiplash City.)
NC (vo): He takes over the town, making everyone's life a living hell, but Dudley still seems to be on that unfunny vampire joke to move forward. No, really, they reuse this joke a lot.
(A montage of scenes about this joke is shown to prove NC's point. First, an angry mob is confronting Dudley about his inability to stop Snidely.)
Dudley: I thought this was about the vampires.
(Everyone freaks out and runs away. Now cut to an ominous shadow cast on the wall.)
Dudley: I know you're a vampire!
(Now cut to Dudley looking himself in the mirror. He freaks out.)
Dudley: I am a vampire!
(Now cut to Snidely popping up, wearing vampire fangs. He snarls, giving Horse such a scare that he breaks out through the wall, leaving behind a cartoonish cutout in it.)
NC: Freakin' Lost Boys mentioned vampires less than this!
(As Dudley tries to defend himself against...his vampire self with a lit torch, Nell Fenwick (Sarah Jessica Parker) shows up at his door.)
Nell: It's me, Dudley. It's Nell Fenwick.
NC (vo): He's visited by Nell, played now by Sarah Jessica Parker. Another problem is, while a lot of the actors do a good job channeling their cartoon characters' voices and personalities, Fraser just plays Dudley like a slightly more coherent George. Listen to them all back to back...
(We are shown alternating clips of the original cartoon and the live-action movie, starting with Nell in the cartoon.)
Nell (voice of June Foray): (to her father, Inspector Fenwick) Don't keep looking out the window in the direction of the sawmill. It can't help.
Nell (live-action): I went out and saw the world just like I planned. Oh, and then I served as U.N. Ambassador to Guam.
(Now cut to Snidely Whiplash in the cartoon.)
Snidely (voice of Hans Conried): What's keeping that dolt, Do-Right? He should have been here long ago.
Snidely (live-action): How can I do this to you, madam? I was born to do it. Now get out, and take your munchkins with you.
(Now cut to Dudley in the cartoon.)
Dudley (voice of Bill Scott): (to Inspector Fenwick) That's right, sir. Square-shooting Dudley Do-Right, at your service. Square and true, eyes of blue!
Dudley (live-action): Oh, I got you. You want one of those fuzzy plaid blankets that they sell down at the Mountie store? Beach house and a hot tub?
NC: That really doesn't sound like Dudley, does it?
NC (vo): I mean, okay, he (imitates cartoon Dudley's voice) doesn't have to do this voice the whole time (normal again) or anything, but it doesn't feel like the same type of bumbling doofus from the source material. Granted, there are still a few jokes he can pull off.
Nell: Is something burning?
(Dudley has accidentally lit his hat on fire.)
Dudley: Oh, yeah, right, like you think I'm stupid enough to fall for that old trick.
NC: People give him credit (An image of Fraser as Charlie in The Whale is shown in the corner.) for wearing a fat suit, but I give him much more credit for wearing...
NC (vo): ...a hat that's on fire! (An image of Charlie wearing Dudley's burning hat is shown in the corner.) Now, if he did both, he'd win two Oscars. Nell shows it's really her by singing a love song they both remember.
Nell: ♫ When I'm calling you... ♫
(Cut to a clip of a Martian from Mars Attacks! being killed by singing. Then cut back to Dudley Do-Right. He greets Nell at the door, his hat sopping wet from putting the fire out.)
NC (vo): This movie is ready to evolve from bad running vampire jokes to bad running floorboard jokes.
(Dudley steps onto a loose floorboard, which swings up and hits him in the face. Dazed, he stumbles backwards, only to step on another loose floorboard, which swings up behind him and smacks him from behind. Finally, he steps on one more loose floorboard, which also smacks him in the face. This time, however, he is knocked out a window, shattering it in the process. Nell sighs.)
NC (vo): Even Sarah Jessica Parker's like "We got ten more minutes of this, don't we?" Don't worry, they mix it up with other excuses to play the best of Michael Winslow.
(A montage of cartoon sound effects is heard during this scene. First, the sound of cartoon birds twittering is heard as Dudley stands up, dazed. Then a slide sound is heard as a mounted moose head falls on Dudley's head. Then he falls down behind his desk as the Canadian flag, also making a cartoonish slide sound, falls down on top of him with a cartoon crash sound.)
NC: You know, cartoon sound effects can enhance your slapstick, but not when you solely rely on them.
NC (vo): Dudley and Nell make their way to a Canadian corn festival, and boy, oh, boy, does this look like it's gonna age well!
Narrator (voice of Corey Burton): The tribe of South Brooklyn Indians, the Canarsie Kumquats.
Nell: (to the Kumquat Chief) Me do well.
Kumquat Chief (Alex Rocco): Good for you, sugar. Well, come on, let's go see the show.
NC: (snickers) Okay, (holds up index finger) I see what you're trying to do: trying to confuse me if this is funny or racist. I'll settle for both.
(The Kumquat tribe is doing a dance that looks like Irish tap-dancing (a la Riverdance).)
Kumquat Chief: (to Dudley) This Riverdance stuff is really hot lately.
NC: And will be for... (looks at his bare wrist, as if checking an invisible watch) Huh, look at that! Right up to this moment.
Kumquat Chief: (to Dudley, gesturing toward another Indian) Remember Standing Room Only, don't you?
Dudley: Oh, of course I do. (reaches out and shakes Standing Room Only's hand) How are you, Standing Room Only?
NC: How's your father, Refuses To Have Naming Credits?
(On the stage, one female Indian does the splits.)
Female Indian: (holding up hand) How!
(After an awkward pause, Nell stands up, applauding wildly.)
Nell: Bravo! Bravo!
NC: (as Nell, also applauding) I wasn't this uncomfortable since I made the Sex and the City sequel!
NC (vo): And don't worry, everybody, there's more vampire jokes.
Dudley: Snidely Whiplash, he's hunting vampires with gold bullets, which scares the heck out of me.
Kumquat Chief: Vampires or gold bullets?
Dudley: Vampires.
NC: Did vampires fund this movie? Even Anne Rice would be like "Dude, there's other monsters, you know!"
NC (vo): Speaking of Snidely, he approaches a prospector who found gold, played by maybe the oddest casting choice for a prospector who found gold, Eric Idle.
Snidely: You will be on network television.
Prospector: Network television? No way.
(Snidely smirks.)
NC: To make things weirder, guess who handles a solid minute of exposition?
NC (vo): Dudley? Nell? Snidely? Regis? Kathie Lee? Yeah, the last two!
(The prospector is seen on a taping of Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.)
Kathie Lee Gifford: He found all this gold on land he doesn't own.
Regis Philbin: The owner is staking no claim. Whoever finds the gold gets–
Kathie Lee: The big gold rush is on for Canada.
NC: (scratches head) Is this still a Dudley Do-Right movie?
NC (vo): I don't know why, but for some reason, I laugh really hard at how randomly excited Idle is to see Bette Midler.
Regis: Bette Midler is next.
(The prospector becomes excited as the audience applauds.)
NC: (shakes head) So far, the funniest parts of the movie are characters getting excited for things they probably shouldn't get excited about.
NC (vo): Not since the past two presidential elections have Americans said, "You know, Canada's looking pretty nice," as people rush to Snidely's town to search for gold. His men return as well after they realize they've been tricked by him and he stole their cut of the gold. He gives them all jobs in his flourishing town, realizing that the people going after the gold are not usually Canadians.
Snidely's aid, Homer (Jack Kehler): Canadians like to think things over before they do something. Americans just jump.
NC: Like greenlighting a Dudley Do-Right picture. Perfect example.
NC: Where's Dudley in all this, you may ask?
Narrator: He was fast asleep, dreaming about Horse.
NC: Well, that opens the stable door for a pretty easy joke, except the movie makes it for me.
(In Dudley's dream, he sees Horse and runs toward him while Peaches and Herb's "Reunited" plays in the background. As we cut back to NC, a shot of the title character from Mister Ed is shown in the corner, talking to Wilbur.)
NC: So, is this like Brokeback Mountain to him?
(As Dudley embraces Horse, the latter tries to tell him something in his ear.)
NC (vo; as Dudley): What's that? I don't think we could do that in a rated-R movie. (normal) Snidely makes a fortune on the gold rush...which, again, is a little weird; according to before, he was already rich...when Fraser delivers the only line in a way that actually kinda sounds like Dudley Do-Right.
Dudley: (to Snidely) There's something going on Semi-Happy Valley that I don't approve of.
NC: (pointing to camera) That sounded like Dudley to me.
NC (vo): Again, (imitating the cartoon Dudley) it's not the goofy voice, (normal) but the attitude of naive authority was there. I don't know, maybe it sounds like that because it's the only line that doesn't involve vampires or tripping. On that note, this moment is so odd, it's pretty hard not to laugh at it.
Dudley: (to Snidely) You remember Nell Fenwick.
Snidely: Nell! (embraces her)
Dudley: (upset) NELL, WILL YOU STOP THAT?!?
NC: (surprised) Was there a running joke I missed?!
NC (vo): What a strange thing to say! He kisses her, yet he yells at Nell! Were there moments where she was making out with Adam Sandler's Dances with Wolves here, too?!
Nell: Oh, it's just Snidely, for Pete's sake!
NC (vo): I also do legit love the subtlety he's using a golf cart to play miniature golf. This movie's bad, but it does have its moments.
(Dudley and the Kumquat Chief are now seen in the Prime Minister's office in Ottawa.)
Prime Minister: Well, that is an amazing story you tell.
NC (vo): Dudley goes to Ottawa to tell of Snidely's nasty deeds, but it doesn't seem to go well.
Prime Minister: Millions of American dollars pouring into an otherwise impoverished section.
Kumquat Chief: He's the bad guy. Just look at the way he dresses. Duh.
NC: Did the Italian dressed as a Native American honestly say, "Look at how he dresses! It's obvious what he is!"?
NC (vo): It falls on deaf ears as Nell's father, Inspector Fenwick, enters the picture, played by Robert Prosky. Again, in casting, that's honestly pretty dead-on.
Inspector Fenwick: Now give me your uniform and your sidearm, and leave.
Dudley: My uniform, sir?
Inspector Fenwick: Oh, I'm sorry, Dudley.
NC: (as Inspector Fenwick) Don't worry. You'll find something else.
(We are shown posters for the following movies in the corner: Monkeybone, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Inkheart, Furry Vengeance, and The Nut Job.)
NC: (as Inspector Fenwick) It'll take a very hot minute, but you'll have a unique box set.
(We go to a commercial break. When we return, the movie resumes.)
NC (vo): Dudley tries to get used to his new life as a normal citizen as Snidely tries to win over Nell and her father at his restaurant. Again, little touches like this fancy drawing of him (The camera zooms in on the image of Snidely on the menu.) do get a laugh out of me.
NC: It's like the logo I had years ago.
(An image of the AskThatGuy logo is shown, with an image of Doug as he appeared when he first started.)
NC (vo): And it hasn't changed at all–
(Then an image of Doug as he is now is shown, and the logo changes to match his current appearance.)
NC (vo): Getting old sucks. Don't do it.
(Dudley and the prospector spy on Snidely's men carrying crates full of the gold stolen from the bank.)
Prospector: That's where they melt down the gold, so they can salt it at night.
NC (vo): Dudley finds out that Snidely is putting more gold in the mountains for them to find, which, for a guy known for tying people to railroad tracks, doesn't seem that bad. Hell, I'd be more angry at Nell for turning faster on Dudley than the writers did. Yeah, I'm starting to think this film should have been called Snidely Whiplash!
(Dudley attends a gala ball held in Snidely's honor after the latter's rise in popularity. Dudley attempts to challenge Snidely to a dance-off to win Nell back. All the while, various female dancers are shown performing as well.)
NC (vo): Wow.
NC: This dance sequence is...almost good.
NC (vo): It's like every time it starts to get impressive, they're like, "Wait, is a Bullwinkle cartoon really worth it?"
(The dance-off ends with Snidely tripping up Dudley, sending him falling to the ground.)
NC (vo): Dudley doesn't win Nell over via...dance-off... You know, it just hit me: do we even see them break up? ...as the prospector tries to get Dudley back on track because...we paid for Eric Idle; might as well get the most out of him.
Prospector: Now, I will throw some stones at you, and you will not flinch as they whiz past your head...
NC: (deadpan) I wonder where this...
NC (vo): ...is going...
(The prospector throws a rock at Dudley. It hits him on the head, causing him to cringe in pain.)
NC (vo): Yeah...
NC: ...can we just cut to the crotch shot?
(The prospector throws another rock at Dudley. Sure enough, it hits him in the groin. Dudley buckles his knees in pain.)
NC: I wasn't even serious about that! Though, why should be with a film that opens with a farting horse?!
(The opening shot of Dudley sitting backwards on Horse is shown in the corner, with the flatulence being heard again.)
NC (vo): After he finishes his training, I will say I didn't see this edit coming...
(As part of his training, Dudley ties the prospector to a log in the path of a spinning sawblade in a sawmill.)
Dudley: Well, then, I'm afraid we're gonna find out which is your better side.
NC: (horrified) JESUS!
(The poster for Death Wish 3 is shown in the corner, but with Dudley's head in place of Charles Bronson's, now called Dudley Death Wish.)
NC: Dudley Death Wish should have been this film's title!
NC (vo): But it turns out the saw was just paper mâché...
(Dudley punches the spinning sawblade, which breaks easily. He then holds one of the pieces up to the prospector.)
Dudley: Just paper mâché.
NC (vo): ...and he gets the info he's looking for, playing now a much harder game.
(While a dramatic version of his cartoon theme plays in the background, Dudley, adopting a newer, more aggressive style, rides into view on a motorcycle and fills a wall full of holes from a machine gun on his person, forming the letters "D.D.".)
NC: Okay, so I can't pretend this is clever writing, but something about...
NC (vo): ...seeing Dudley Do-Right with a machine gun...
NC: Hell, just saying that sentence out loud...does get a smile on my face.
NC (vo): The prospector reveals he has family to go home to and that training Dudley gave him the courage to go home and face his past.
NC: I thought (holds up two fingers) this guy was gonna have a two-minute cameo! When did he become the most complex character in the movie?!
Prospector: I was lost like you. No one really believed in me, but you believed in me, and...and that gives me the strength to rejoin my loved ones – if I can find them.
NC: There are so many questions I have for this guy! Can the rest of the movie just be a Q&A with him?
(With his new "bad boy" image in place, Dudley on his motorcycle flies through the air and lands in the midst of a garden party Snidely is hosting.)
NC (vo): Dudley crashes in on Snidely and Nell as they try to figure who's the bad boy she'd rather go for. I do give credit this movie's not even trying with the little story it had before, and it's more satirizing what they're supposed to be doing in stories like this rather than why. I do have to tip my hat, it is just going all-out for the jokes.
(Dudley uses a chainsaw to cut up a bush into the topiary shape of Nell, while Snidely was doing a painting of her. As a result, Nell tosses Snidely her umbrella before getting on Dudley's motorcycle and riding off with him.)
NC: (as Nell) I guess you could say that makes me shallow, but unless you're Eric Idle, I think that's everybody's M.O.
NC (vo): Also, again, I just couldn't predict this would be the next edit...
(That night, having been dumped by Nell, Snidely takes a relaxing mud bath with his assistant, Homer.)
Snidely: He's a cunning adversary, Homer, but not cunning enough.
NC: (snickers) Okay, this is a bad movie, but I am laughing much more (The poster for The Last Airbender is shown in the corner.) than other bad movies I review on here.
NC (vo): Also, am I crazy, or does he drop the F-bomb here?
Snidely: We'll see if the shoe fits.
Homer: What shoe, Whip?
Snidely: Oh, for Pete's [sounds like the F-bomb] sake.
NC: Watch it! You can't say that on YouTube! Only (The poster for The Big Lebowski is shown.) R-rated movies and... (becomes hesitant as the poster for X-Men: First Class appears) PG-13 movies and... (The posters for Beetlejuice and Spaceballs appear.) yes, even PG movies! (massages his temples and rubs his eyes) God, things make no sense.
NC (vo): Meanwhile, man, they really thought they were gonna go far milking these characters, didn't they?
(At another lavish stage production by the Kumquats, Dudley is seen performing with them.)
NC: Were there even, like, tribes on the show? You can't even blame the '60s for this!
NC (vo): Dudley puts himself in the show, which...surprisingly doesn't make anything less uncomfortable, but it does win Nell over, which...I thought he already did.
Nell: I love you now, and I always have.
Dudley: You really do, Nell?
(They embrace and kiss.)
NC (vo; as Nell): Kiss me, you bird Liberace in a diaper! (normal) Snidely launches an assault on Dudley, but they shoot their fireworks at them...which looks about as good as they did earlier.
Standing Room Only: (to the Kumquat Chief) That's the last of the fireworks.
NC (vo): The fireworks don't work, so...I don't know why they wrote that in. And they drive everyone away.
Narrator: Not since their all-male revival of Little Women have the Kumquats faced such a hostile reception.
NC: Yeah, that was seen in bad taste for them!
NC (vo): Dudley's horse returns to show him the way, and I do kind of give credit, they do call out their own bullshit.
Kumquat Indian: (falling to the ground) That's it, I'm finished.
Nell: I thought Native North Americans could run all day.
Kumquat Indian: Oh, yeah, like we're really Indians.
NC: (shaking head) Well, just because you say it doesn't make it right.
NC (vo): Did I say the burning hat was the most impressive thing Fraser did in this?
(In the war going on, Snidely's tank and another tank fire on Dudley and Horse. Horse falls to the ground with Dudley on it.)
Dudley: Hyah!
(Horse manages to right himself again and keep going.)
NC (vo): That...actually looks like a really difficult thing to pull off.
NC: I mean, I know, like, ninety percent of it's the horse, but I couldn't do that ten percent.
NC (vo): The Canadian Cavalry arrives! Oh, yeah, I...actually kinda forgot there's a Canadian Mountie in this. And if you told me two tanks blew up at the end of the Dudley Do-Right movie, I'd definitely say someone at least thought a little bit outside the box.
NC: Oh, and where'd the Cavalry come from?
NC (vo): Well, it turns out the prospector's wife was just sworn in as the Prime Minister of Canada and sent them in for the rescue.
Dudley: That was lucky, wasn't it?
Prospector: Boy, I'll say.
NC: CHRIST, I want to know this guy's story!
NC (vo): Snidely is defeated, and Dudley hooks up with Nell in their new home, but not with new jokes.
(Dudley tosses his hat aside and then steps forth onto a loose floorboard, which swings up and smacks him in the face. He stumbles backwards, dazed, as Nell stands up, concerned. However, she doesn't look where she's standing, and she steps on a loose floorboard as well, which swings up behind her and smacks her on the back, knocking her forward into Dudley's arms. As we cut back to NC, an image of Sideshow Bob getting hit with a rake is shown.)
NC: Did they just see that Sideshow Bob episode of Simpsons and say, "Well, we got our...everything"?
NC (vo): And of course, we have to end on what this movie was really all about: horse shit.
(The movie ends with Horse blowing a raspberry, while the iris closes out on his muzzle. Cut to another clip of another Simpsons episode.)
Kent Brockman (voice of Harry Shearer): (wiping a tear away) Hilarious.
NC: And that was Dudley Do-Right. It is bad, but...honestly, I thought it'd be worse.
(Footage of the film plays out one more time as NC gives his final thoughts on it.)
NC (vo): This movie has plenty about it that doesn't work, mainly in the joke department. A lot of the humor is either written well but is delivered poorly, or is written poorly and delivered poorly. Every once in a while, though, there is a pretty good bit, and the energy and enthusiasm of the well-picked cast does come across. The main issue seems to be around Dudley himself, who's not only written in a boring way, but also acted in a boring way. But I don't know how much of that is Fraser's fault. We've seen him funny plenty of times; I think this was just a misreading of what the character was about and what's supposed to be funny about him. The creativity and randomness of other jokes from other characters is appreciated, though. I mean, like I said, I kind of think this should have been more of a Snidely Whiplash movie, honestly. But that's not what it is; it's a Dudley Do-Right movie clearly doing wrong. But for so many wrong moves, I do want to acknowledge there were more than a few moments legit done right. Take that for what it's worth.
NC: I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to. (gets up and leaves)
Channel Awesome Tagline – Narrator: He was fast asleep, dreaming about Horse.
(The credits roll.)