Karl's Film Review

Karl's Film Review was a short-lived feature, done only one time on 02 March 2002. As part of Educating Karl, Ricky gave Karl a copy of Gladiator. Karl reviewed it in such great detail (down to the horses knees), Ricky was prompted to speed him up. Despite not being a regular feature, Ricky did give Karl his token "the film review" jingle.

Gladiator

From 02 March 2002:
Um, it’s all right. Nothing great. It’s like, it’s like an old, sort of an old version of Rocky, done in the olden days, really. But the old bloke, fighting other people... How sort of well-known is this story? Do you reckon people know the basics? There’s Caesar, and there’s Caesar’s kid. And, uh, Max goes to war, sorta wings it, comes back, uh, Caesar says, You’re good at what you do. I wish me son was as good as you, uh, so I want you to be in charge when I die. His kid finds out, bit annoyed about it, kills his dad, because he didn’t want anyone to hear that he said he wants him to be in charge. So, his kid gets in charge and thinks, I’ll show ya. You’re not gonna be king, I am, you’re gonna be a slave or something. And, the next thing you see is... Yeah. So, anyway, the interesting bit was when he was goin’ across the desert on a horse. And I think to show you how long he’d been goin’ across the desert on his ‘orse, they show you the horse’s knees and they were bleeding, and I just wonder if that’s what ‘orses do if they run for a long time. Do you know? ... All right, so anyway, so he goes on, keeps going on like this, um, he’s a slave, and then, he has a fight at the end with, the Caesar’s kid, and he kills him. And that’s how it ended. - 5/10

See also: Ricky's Film Review