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Mikey Mileos: They’re Just Words
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Show type: Melbourne 2011
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Michael Williams: Our Princess Is In Another Castle
It's time to dust off the old Nintendo and blow into the cartridges to make them work! Michael Williams is going to explore why he wasted his childhood rescuing princesses, shooting ducks, jumping on his foes. It's on like Donkey Kong Jnr.!
Featuring animation, songs and bonus levels, this show is for lovers of video games and people that don't understand what the fuss is about
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Michael Williams: Our Princess Is In Another Castle |
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![]() Michael Williams is so fixated on video games, he even spends most of this geekfest of a show staring at a TV screen. Basically, he’s made a game of his life’s adventure so far, trying to get through the various levels towards adulthood, such as leaving home, getting a job, and finding a girlfriend. But this is a comedy festival budget, so the graphics are definitely more SNES than GTA IV. If that looks like a random jumble of letters, it’s fair to say Our Princess Is In Another Castle is not for you. The eight-bit alter ego is a neat attempt at elevating the flimsy and familiar ethos of the show into something different. The festival is, after all, full of arrested development 28-year-olds with a string of dead-end jobs and little other experience to their name, but few have their own stiltedly animated icon. But the device is overplayed, and can’t sustain a whole hour. It’s a ‘paralysis by PowerPoint’ scenario, when you spend the hour gazing at a screen rather than the live comedian – and cricking your neck to do so if you’re in anything but the front couple of rows of this tiny venue. He’s got a few enjoyable gags about the ridiculous parallel universes within games – that Mario can stand on a bullet, for example – and the man loves a nice pun. He scores high points for the gentle, nerdy, self-effacing likeability; fewer for hearty belly laughs and powerhouse performance. His enthusiasm for his sometimes all-consuming hobby is nicely conveyed to the audience, and cosy nostalgia’s always a winning formula. The result is a gentle diversion, rather than a real game-changer. Reviewed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, April 2011 |
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| Date of live review: Monday 9th Jan, '12 | |
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Review by Steve Bennett |
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