Saw Army of Darkness. Army of Darkness is one of those films like Blade Runner where there's apparently a ton of different edits. I saw the one with the back-in-the-store ending. Anyway, I loved this one. They've embraced the batshit premise way past winking camp and into full-blown living cartoon land. Skeleton hands come popping out of the ground to preform eye-poking Three Stooges homages on the protagonist. Breaking free he shakes his fist at them and says "I'll deal with you later!" It's a cartoon! I'm not insulting it by calling it a cartoon either. It knows what it is.
The plot is ludicrous of course but here goes: Ash is sent back in time to the middle ages where he must battle the forces of evil (skeletons and other monsters of latex-kind) for the Necronomicon. With the aid of an industrious blacksmith, Ash now has a robotic hand (replacing the chainsaw one from Evil Dead 2) and later, during the awesome, awesome climax, the smith smiths him the most awesome battle-car ever. That climax is seriously amazing. Pure fun.
Best enjoyed as a fun dumb movie, it is gloriously stupid and completely goofy. It's sometimes a bit too dumb, but then I'm hard on comedy (especially when they have show stopping set-pieces like that car and that final battle.)
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