Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You!

MOVIE #1,672 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.27.24 MovieJeff on Motern: A FARLEY/ROXBURGH DIRECTOR FOCUS Well, what can I say? This one delivered on the promise and hype 100%. It’s the strongest Farley/Roxburgh joint by a wide margin, featuring their best creature/monster design and funniest screenplay to date. They’ve completely honed their overly wordy, esoteric dialogue now. For example, taking the idea of one’s “god-family” (if you have godmother, well then you also have god-cousins, etc.) out to the nth degree. I also chuckled whenever a character said “and his son from a previous marriage” — there is a playful, almost Tim & Eric-style at work here where they twist some aspect of the familial structure and focus on seemingly inane details that just get funnier as the film rolls along. It’s a smaller role than usual for Kevin McGee but he brings his usual flair, especially in the extremely LOL postscript ending.

I’ve seen this movie mentioned as a good starting point for getting into the Motern canon, and while I definitely agree with that, I think there’s some gems among the very early work (I would recommend Obtuse Todd — which has my favorite McGee performance — and their debut Adventures in Cruben Countryas essential viewing too).

---

CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ MOVIE #1,671 - (YOU ARE HERE) - MOVIE #1,673 ⫸

---

In this campy throwback to 1950's monster films, a vicious monster has risen from its watery lair to terrorize a small New England town. Local tutor Neil Stuart must warn the town and make them believe him before it's too late! It was released on May 19, 2012.