it was astounding to me, that someone recently, should actually suggest that not only was Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness a good movie, but that it was actually better than Evil Dead 2 (effectively a simple remake of the first incarnation, but without the lumber rape!)
the stupefaction caused by this mind numbing audacity may well have left me so discombobulated, that my retort may have lacked the necessary impetus to confound this utterance of insanity once and for all!
clearly, this amasement persists in my mind today. but of course i am not alone. a very cursory search for interweb reviews of this latest episode of an otherwise laudable trilogy, made it easy to find many, that were in accordance with my stance on the subject.
for eg.
"It's hard not to feel there's something wrong when Army of Darkness, the third entry in Sam Raimi's lively Evil Dead series, opens with a 15 certificate. And indeed, this is not quite the non-stop rollercoaster of splat we're entitled to expect.
Though it starts zippily, with Campbell's grimly funny clod of a hero commanding the screen, a sort of monotony sets in as magical events pile up. Ash is attacked by Lilliputian versions of himself, one of whom incubates in his stomach and grows out of his shoulder to be his evil twin. After being dismembered and buried, Evil Ash rises from the dead to command a zombie army and at least half the film is a big battle scene in which rotted warriors (nine mouldy extras in masks for every one Harryhausen-style impressive animated skeleton) besiege a cardboard castle. There are lots of action jokes, MAD Magazine-like marginal doodles and a few funny lines, but it lacks the authentic scares of The Evil Dead and the authentic sick comedy of Evil Dead II.
i remain justified in POV! the loony who suggested otherwise, shall remain anonymous but for his ill-chosen avatar!
