Nov 30 2008
Two Thumbs Up
The other night, while I was deliberately not watching Batman and Robin on “Sometimes We’ll Play a” Cartoon Network, I came across gold. Steve Oedekerk , who you may know from Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (and to a lesser extent, Barnyard and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius), wrote, directed, and starred in the 2001 classic Bat Thumb.
Bat Thumb parodies the story of Tim Burton’s original Batman movie while throwing in plenty of homages to the 1960s TV show. You have twenty-eight minutes to spare, right?
Batastic. Oedekerk has a whole series of Thumbs! movies, which include parodies of Star Wars, Frankenstein, and Titanic. He also looks exactly like Kevin Nealon. Go here , buy the entire Thumbs! collection, then let me borrow it.
