Short Takes

The king lives. All hail the king! Joe Bob's I Spit On Your Grave commentary won such raves that Elite Entertainment wisely hauled off and launched a DVD line just to showcase the wit and wisdom of the world's greatest living drive-in movie critic. Yet it's with this third track that Joe Bob seems most at home in his new digital domain. His trademark "Drive-in Totals," affectionately aped by online hacks such as yours truly, have finally returned along with a noticeably less bridled dispensation of Joe Bob's peerless expertise. Say when he calls James Lipton a "pompous ass," suggests the soundtrack of "Attack of the Slutty Grandmas" is actually that of a Vegas magic show or repeatedly cites the extraterrestrial leanings of the melon-heavy cast. Though the teats d'resistance has to be his two-minute recitation of alternative nicknames for breasts. What's odd is that this is the SECOND release of William Winckler's nipple-free jiggle fest. Elite inexplicably omits that disc's commentary proffered by The Double-D Avenger herself, Kitten Natividad. They do, however, include a NEW feature-length "making of." CineSchlockers will hear A LOT more from Joe Bob as Media Blasters recently requested tracks for Blood Shack, Hell High, Hell's Angels 69, Samurai Cop, Warlock Moon and Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skidrow Slasher. (2001, 74 mins, Fullframe, DD 2.0, Commentary, Documentary, Photos, Trailer, Printed review.)