Jack of All Trades by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert (2000)
23 October 2007I am a huge Bruce Campbell fan, and after seeing Brisco County Jr. i wanted more Bruce Campbell goodness, and this show paid it in spades. This show is 10 times more over the top than Brisco Country, with little or no reality, and is so much fun. The show is hysterical and as silly as can be, and casting Verne Troyer as the bad ass Napolean Bonaparte could be one of the biggest casting acts of genius I have ever heard of. This show is hysterical and amazing. Sure the episodes are short as it is only a 22 minute short, but they pack in a lot of story, and the show has so many great characters, this could not be more fun. And it is great that Bruce was also an executive producer on this New Zealand produced show.
Bruce Campbell plays Jack Styles, an American secret agent, whose womanizing gets him in trouble, so he is sent to the Asian island of Pullo Pullo to report to the top British Agent Mrs Emilia Smythe Rothschild (ANgela Marie Dotchin). Jack doesn’t like being under someone’s control, especially a stuffy British scientist. They are sent to take care of the French who run the island, and keep them in line. The French are led by Napolean’s brother Governor Croque (Stuart Devenie) who is a fop and more than a little crazy. His second is Captain Brogard (Stephen Papps)..
The two spies have many adventures, fighting the french as well as baddies like the firebreathing Blackbeard the Pirate (Hori Ahipene), the sexy and evil Madame Camille Croque (Ingrid Park) and of coruse Napoleon Bonaparte (Verne Troyer). ANd they use many scientific gear such Emilia’s submarine, her weather baloon and much more. And Jack takes on a secret identity, a freedom fighter named the Daring Dragoon, who are the French’s biggest nemesis.
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This show is so much fun! Absolute silly fun! I wish their was more of the series. It is so insane, it really makes me think of my old college roommate Seamus Ruane, who worked for Sam and Rob’s company and tells a great story about him sitting out front of the office having a smoke, and they drove a golf cart into a tree at full speed, laughed hysterically and then drove off. They really are lunatics.
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