Review: Moonbeam City “Lights! Camera! Reenaction!”

Spoilers Below

A local crime-reality series is in town to re-enact Dazzle’s gripping tale of heroism by arresting a potential bike thief. Rad loves the show, called Crime Zappers, and he will do anything to get on with the exception of fighting crime. When Dazzle names himself producer of the short, he opens casting auditions as himself, and Rad fails miserably in his audition. Rad’s gotta fight some crime before anyone takes him seriously.

Dazzle convinces his place of employment to finance his version of the reenactment, but they pull out leaving Dazzle to go and have to find a new investor. Unfortunately, the investor dies on the first day of shooting, but forces Dazzle to vow that the movie will be completed. Dazzle does just that, but when it’s screened for everyone, the final production is just utter shit. However, Rad shows up with his own Crimestoppers bit featuring a music video with him in it stopping criminals in a liquor store.

Rad’s bit is way more impressive than Dazzle’s, so Dazzle heads into a deep dark depression that sees him drinking a lot. On the way to the liquor store, Dazzle asks the manager about Rad’s heroic exploits, and we find out that he was lying all along, and actually ran away from the scene of the crime. Crimestoppers cancels itself, but only after Dazzle’s 258 minute porn video airs.

Our Take

The lighting effects to open and close the show would certainly rank on par with what we saw with Major Lazer. The pastel whites, when hit with black light, gives off a dark hue, overall giving the populace of Moonbeam City a rather intricate character design concept that, quite simply, no one else really does.

Moreover, I think this week’s episode was a lot funnier than the other one. At its core, we’re kinda getting a short-film contest, but either way the dialogue was well-written and I think Dazzle and Rad’s rivalry hit an all-time fervor. Maybe the best part of the entire episode was Rad’s whiny speech near the end, ala an almost Shakespearean  dialogue in Will Forte’s classic whiny tone.

Chrysalis and Pizzaz were bit players as best this week, so if you were fans of them you were shit out of luck. I also was not a fan of the scheduling of the episode, because the press release and preview pics that were put out were different from what was presented,so hopefully this gets corrected down the road.