Pineapple Express Video Game (Donkey Kong Meets Munchies Innuendo)
While Slashfilm recommends sticking to your Maniac Mansion or Narc emulators for the long haul, Pineapple Express has a new Donkey Kong ripoff, featuring a playable Seth Rogen or James Franco, that might sooth your holiday hangover-slash-impressive sparkler burns. The goal: Avoid bouncy evil pineapples as you climb ladders to devour floating tacos, Big Gulps, potato chips and French fries. Click here to play.
Yeah, it doesn’t exactly set Billy Mitchell’s tie on fire (disclosure: we only played two levels). We expected more from PE, something to challenge the provocative ranks of Running Scared’s Hot Coffee using bongs and Tipper Gore’s party line. Alas, Huey Lewis’s theme song beckons us to stay positive. Update: The video game for Step Brothers is a whole lot worse (therefore better?). Also, John McCain’s Pork Invaders remains inexcusable.
Spike to do MXC, the original, not the ripoff, this weekend
Spike TV is calling this holiday weekend, “MXC, The Original, Not the Ripoff, Weekend.” On July 5th and 6th the network will be paying homage to Spike’s original series based on a Japanese game show. Wait, so doesn’t that make Spike’s show the ripoff of the Japanese show? Maybe not. MXC uses real footage from the reality game show Takeshi’s Castle and creates a whole new comedic storyline.
Spike TV makes sure to point out that MXC is not dubbed or a literal translation of Takeshi’s Castle. The show is written and voiced by the following actors: Victor Wilson, Christopher Ranga, Mary Scheer, and John Cervenka.
Spike also seems a little miffed about other networks ripping off their idea. The press release begins with “they say imitation is the best form of flattery” and also reads “many of the games featured in the Spike series such as Mudslingers or Log Jam can be seen in surprisingly similar forms on other networks.” Could they be referring to Wipeout?
MXC will air on Saturday July 5th from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET and on Sunday July 6th from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET. For other holiday weekend programming, check out Bob’s post here.
Wanted Movie Trailer
Universal has released the movie trailer for the big screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s graphic novel Wanted.
Aside from the terrible dialogue, Angelina Jolie’s overuse of eye makeup, and easily comparisons to The Matrix (read: many consumers will call this a Matrix ripoff), the trailer features a few interesting action moments. But all in all, I was expecting more for acclaimed visual director Timur Bekmambetov, who is best known as the creator of the Night Watch series. This Wanted trailer will be attached to American Gangster on Friday, but watch it now below.
Based on the Mark Millar graphic novel, Wanted follows a young man (James McAvoy) who finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (Morgan Freeman) to follow in his dad’s footsteps. Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp and Common also star.
The trailer can also be viewed in High Definition on Yahoo! Movies. Wanted hits theaters on March 28th 2008.
Nikki Cox Biography
Nikki Cox (born Nicole Avery Cox on June 2, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas.
Cox’s career as an entertainer started at the age of four, as she appeared as a dancer in several ballet productions and TV specials. At the age of ten, she got into acting, as she made appearances in several movies, and guest starred on shows such as Baywatch, California Dreams, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Blossom. She starred on General Hospital 1993–1995.
Her appearances on various TV shows would lead to her first prime-time starring role as Tiffany Malloy on the sitcom Unhappily Ever After, which ran on the WB 1995–1999. With her good looks, buxom figure, and her character’s penchant to wear revealing outfits, many viewed her as the only reason to watch a sitcom which was generally viewed as a Married… with Children ripoff. (In one interview she described Tiffany Malloy as “Smart, virginal, and dressed like a cheap hooker.”)
After Unhappily left the airwaves, she would portray Taylor Clayton on the sitcom Norm and star as Nikki White in Nikki, a sitcom vehicle that would only last for less than two seasons (2000–2002). She currently stars as Mary Connell on the tv drama Las Vegas. On May 20 and 23, 2005, her Las Vegas character crossed over to NBC’s cult-favorite soap opera Passions to coincide with the arrival of two new characters introduced on Las Vegas.
Cox was engaged in 1999 to Bobcat Goldthwait, a comedian more than 15 years her senior, who played the voice of Mr. Floppy, a stuffed bunny, on Unhappily Ever After. She was later linked to her Las Vegas co-star Josh Duhamel. Cox confirmed on the January 2, 2006, edition of the morning talk show Live with Regis and Kelly that she is in a relationship with comedian/actor Jay Mohr. The couple are now engaged to be married in a ceremony to take place in late 2006.