On Saturday, Bryan, Jeff, and his girlfriend Alison (I think) went on the weekly trip to Thai Tom. It was delicious of course. We then headed over to Scarecrow to get a movie (Jeff and Alison had never been there). Bryan wins the award for finding “Sakigake!! Korumati Koko: The Movie”. The movie is about a terrible high school in Japan that has a tendency to be destroyed. The movie is more like a series of skits that losely tie together. There’s virtually no continuity, Mechazawa dies at least twice and always just shows up again. It wasn’t a hard sell for me, although Jeff and Alison were a bit more apprehensive. In retrospect, this is the first sign of a crazy crazy movie.
Just thinking about the cast cracks me up:
Mechazawa
He’s a smoking yakuza robot. At one point he’s posessed a la “The Exorcist”. I’m not going to ruin the movie and say why though. My favorite character (and pictured above).
Freddie
Freddie is the ultimate gay stereotype. He walks around with just pants and suspenders the entire movie. The closest thing to a shirt he ever wears is an apron (with pants and suspenders). Think the “we work hard, we play hard” steel mill from The Simpsons. Halfway through the movie he rides a horse for no apparent reason. He’s also once refered to as “Hard Gay.”
A Big Gorilla
I’m not sure what this character’s name is…I don’t think they ever said, in English at least. Regardless, a giant gorilla attends the high school. He’s a pretty active member of the movie, starting a school-wide banana craze and joining the “Earth Defense Force”.
There’s plenty of other hijinx in the movie (one guy that when he throws up the subtitles are radically different – blech! splat! vomit!) so I’m not really ruining things. It’s amazing.
For more info check it out on the IMDB.
The best part was when the guy had a revelation on the bus.
Huh? That’s about the only thing that I don’t remember from that movie. When were they ever on a bus? Horse, yes. Plane, yes. Spaceship, yes. But I don’t remember a bus.
The masked guy, after he showed up without his mask. He was going home on the bus (or maybe it was a train) and thinking, “No. It couldn’t be. No wonder it felt breezy.”