Just in case fans of ThanksKilling
are wondering right now whatever happened to ThanksKilling 2 - the
makers of the original decided to skip it to dive right into part 3 ...
and yet, part 2 is what this movie's about: According to ThanksKilling
3, ThanksKilling 2 has actually been made - but was so bad all
of its copies were destroyed ... well, all but one. Now legend has it that
Turkie, the killer turkey from the original movie, needs the last
surviving copy to ... ummm, reincarnate his son into it, to then connect
his son with some electrical device to eventually control the earth's
powersupply - well, or somesuch. Meet Yomi the handpuppet, who has lost
her mind but has found the ThanksKilling 2 DVD in question.
Somehow, this gives her the clue that her mind is somewhere
Thanksgiving-related, and as fate has it, she runs across Uncle Donny
(Daniel Usaj), head of Thanksgivingland - that so far only exists in his
own mind. He soon develops a soft spot for the sweet if slightly klutzy
Yomi ... and before they know it, they, plus Donny's gangster-rapping
grandma, are on the run from Turkie, but their getaway only ends back
home, where they receive unexpected help from Turkie's nemesis, a
space-traveling earthworm, his raygun-wielding robot, and Donny's fully
automatized turkey-oven. But Turkie is not one to give up easily, and each
time he dies, he only re-emerges stronger. So will our heroes save the
world, will Yomi find her mind, or will turkeykind destroy all humankind
and the meaning of Thanksgiving forever be perverted? While the
first ThanksKilling was,
despite the talking turkey, a relatively straight slasher comedy, ThanksKilling
3 feels like utter madness: The plot is as hard to grasp in full as it
makes little sense, the effects are deliberately primitive, there's much
crude humour in thereand not everything might be entirely "in good
taste" - and the film is also lots of fun, your typical party movie
with endless possibilities to play drinking games to it, fowl language, a
disregard to conclusive storytelling to not distract the audience too
much, and so on and so forth. You might have to make sure you have enough
beer (or whatever's your poison of choice) in the freezer before watching
this - but if so, you'll be greatly (if crudely) entertained!!!
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