Popularity is no measure of quality. “Transformers” makes billions of dollars, people continue to watch “The Walking Dead” and the Honest Trailers phenomenon remains one of the most popular in the movie internet. Now years in the making and with six million subscribers on YouTube, their sarcastic takedowns of popular blockbusters go from strength to strength, leaving us, as skeptics to the whole thing, somewhat baffled.
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We can sort of see the appeal, and the Screen Junkies crew occasionally have some good jokes in there, but too often they go the lazy, obvious route. Case in point: the latest video, which takes a look at Oscar-winning box-office phenomenon “La La Land.” There are a couple of semi-insights, and a pretty good twist halfway through, but otherwise, it’s mostly just the same jokes about jazz that you’ve seen a few dozen times before.
Anyway, if you love these things, you can watch below. As for us, we’ll be over in the corner grinching it up. “La La Land” is out now on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD.
