December 8, 2004

• *UPDATE

   

  The Calamari Wrestler!

   

  This movie is freakin’ hilarious!!! Here’s the trailer. (Japanese)

  

  And the Fantasia Festival site‘s synopsis:

  A championship wrestling match pits Koji Taguchi against Crush Volcano, the latter no match for Koji’s signature move, the Torture Ring Strangler. Koji beams as he clutches the Champion Belt, only to have it snatched away by a mysterious new challenger in the ring—a giant squid! A giant squid, in fact, who not only evades Koji’s key attack, but destroys him with a Northern Light Suplex! Koji’s fiancée Miyako watches tearfully, though there’s something about this Calamari Wrestler that seems familiar to her…

  The tentacled tackler is the hottest story in the Japanese sports press. The president of the Cho-Nippon wrestling team proposes a fixed match as a publicity stunt, but the honourable Calamari Wrestler will hear nothing of it. Wrongfully banned from the sport, he retreats to the Monhonji Temple to train and meditate, where a young reporter tracks him down and begins to unravel his enigma. But the squid’s problems are just beginning—treacherous businessmen, unrequited love and the wrestling-ring menace of the Octopus Wrestler and the insectoid Squilla Boxer await!

  We can’t wait for the English-subtitled DVD, and there’s also the action-figure…

  
  image from Toy Tokyo

  

  Meditating & Standing Squid - Squilla Boxer - Octopus 
  via www.ika-movie.com

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    Sneak Preview Images!  
  

   

  As promised, here are stills from the final episode of ¡Mucha Lucha! (Season 3) -The Magnificent Three, which will be airing on Kids WB Network sometime in 2005. You can read about the Blue Demon Jr. voice session HERE.

                         
  
  © 2004 Warner Bros Animation  

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  The Ward-O-Matic has an excellent review and critique of Polar Express (which we have no desire to see).

   

  Silver’s Boogaloo – MP3 blog

   

  Swapatorium! (via Eye of the Goof)

   

  Tonight at the Egyptian Theater: Andromedia & The Calamari Wrestler!

  (Link: Calamari Wrestler website)

   

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