Super Happy Robot Hour
Reviewer Daniel Ziffer, The Age Online
April 15, 2005 - 12:00AM
Trades Hall, until April 17
Geeks are rewarded in this prop-heavy, pop-culture referencing, fan-boy love-in.
Cartoon hero Optimus Prime, the truck leader of the "goodies" in Transformers, and Dr Who's evil Dalek are buddy-hosts of a top-rating tonight show. Complications with Astroboy propel the action.
The show won best comedy at the Fringe Festival and has been extensively rejigged, mostly for the better.
There are fewer gaps as the impressive, hulking props of co-writer Scott Pollard move about, but the plot is no stronger.
Tell your cartoon-loving friends - don't tell any copyright lawyers.
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Hmmmm. Hardly seems worth the wait. Oh well. |