To Boldly Flee is the four year anniversary of the website thatguywiththeglasses. While its predecessors, Kickassia and Suburban Knights were parodies of War and Fantasy genres To Boldly Flee now taking away from everything Science Fiction. The plot is one of the most meta things I've ever watched, so it maybe a little hard to understand from my description, but I'll try my best. One year after the death of Ma-ti in the last movie the Nostalgia Critic is still in mourning. The Critic, after consulting with several people, learns that Ma-ti may be dead but his character (Who he was, his soul) is still out there. Namely in the mind of Spoony and in space. At the same time various other reviewers learn that something really big has appeared in space. The plots converges and we learn that the thing in space is the Plot Hole. A strange force that is making inconsistencies throughout the world. NC, along with many other Channel Awesome celibates, head to the Plot Hole to try and stop it and hopefully figure out what happened too Ma-ti. But throughout this adventure they must face off the Executor, the man who wants to control the Plot Hole and everything else really.
I just can't bring myself to not love this movie. Science Fiction is one of my favorite genres and I love referential humor so this made me laugh a lot. Sadly if you don't know the movies they're playing off of then a lot of the humor may fall flat on you. But don't get me wrong, I still don't know what that Edward thing JO was doing is from, but I still think it's hilarious. So I guess it really depends on the person.
As said earlier the story is very meta with the movie having an actual Plot Hole in it. I can understand why some people may be turned off by this idea because, let's be real, it's weird concept. I personally think it's a really cool idea, the characters trying to fight the writing problems in their own story. One of the big idea To Boldly Flee talks about is the place of reviewers in the film industry. And to my shock as the film goes I slowly begin to question it too along with the characters of Luke and Cinema Snob. It really engrosses you into there problem.
The acting was all around good, and all the characters got to do something big in the movie. Some characters are mostly in the background aside from their five minutes of fame like Micky and Sage, but they're always there so that's good.
Don't expect much in the way of special effects, but I will say as a big AT4W fan seeing a higher budget Mechakara was wonderful.
When I had first watched Kickassia I had only known the Nostalgia Critic. Because of that movie, I learned about all of these other great funny people out there. Seeing the people I've watched for years come together always makes me happy so I can't give it a negative review to this. If you don't like the genre and the concept sounds too stupid then don't watch this movie. If you do like the way it sounds then go and watch it. I can't recommend To Boldly Flee enough.
To Boldly Flee was released in 8 part which you can watch down below.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
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