by SpiderBraids
Titles. Dude, this theme is, like, too agressive for my liking... OK, enough with the dude-talk, more of the snark-talk, then.
One of the best things about this show seems to be its emphasis on teamwork. This would put it on par with The Powerpuff Girls (yaay!) and Teamo Supremo (boo!). The Rocket sibs and their friends make an excellent team, but is there any real need to showcase this fact while they're delivering food? Seriously. They're delivering a bag of hamburgers as if this was a freakin' relay race or something. Meanwhile, within the first 2 minutes, we have our first Twister The Ditz moment: "Do you read?" "Not really, mostly I watch TV." Yawn... and there's more where that came from. And I mean much more, since there had never even been a 30-minute ep before, much less a 90-minute movie like this.
Anyways, after some flap with Lars' gang, Otto gets the job done (as in, not like when he was trying to do a certain complex skating move [RP, "Super McVarial 900"] at a skating contest), and heads back to the Shore Shack with tip money. Tip money? Uh, bringing home the full price of the burgers as well wouldn't hurt things either...
"Well, I counted, I recounted, and I counted again. The numbers don't lie." Squid, this ain't the 2000 US Elections, you know? But he ain't counting votes or chads... He's counting all the collected tip money (again: tip money?), and guess what? They're going to New Zealand. Um... DUH?
And here come the Stimpletons, Merv and Violet, or should that be Grumpy and Cheery? Anyways, they ask about the hullabaloo, so it's time for some good old expositionary dialog, spelling out the whole deal for the viewers: the tip money (again: tip money?) is to cover the entry fee for the team at the "New Zealand Junior Waikikamukau Games" (hereafter refered to as simply the JWG, because I don't feel like getting carpal tunnel syndrome from snarking up this ep). The JWG is "this really cool race where six teams compete in four different extreme sports races and the fastest team wins." "And the fastest person is crowned Prince Waikikamukau." "Or Princess Waikikamukau." Wonder if Reggie is considering a run for the title... nah ;) But anyways, since we don't have time to even remotely explore 20 other racers in detail, we'll be making do with just one other racer. It's all about the individual title here, folks.
There's apparently a major discount on exposition and foreshadowing, so Klasky Csupo pile in some more of both: Dad Ray Rocket brings up running in the very first race... and getting screwed (the Roy Jones Jr. type, mind you) in downhill skiing (his favorite event, mind you). Oh yes, and Tito eating a "vegemite" sandwich throughout the race (hey, Tito, don't you know that exercising right after a meal might make you crampy? Oh yeah, more on "vegemite" later), and dancing in a freestyle roller disco. The guy he lost to, by cheating if we're supposed to believe Ray, was some local named Chester McGill, and he supposedly cheated by taking the left route, while Ray took the right, around some place called the Flat Stick Fork. The foreshadowing here is so heavy-handed it would make many a reality TV editor blush.
OK, it's time to throw those memories in the trash, time to go down to New Zealand to "show those dudes how [they] do things Up Over", time to let Cheery mind the shop while they're gone... and time for Nick to plug some junk food. See ya in a few!