I remember renting this as a kid and was so pumped to see this. Never have I tried to run away from a decision and VHS rental faster than this. I think I returned this back to the store as soon as I watched it. Some memories of money and time you wasted stay with you forever.
Imagine if Toy Story never happened, or turned out looking like this. Where would we be today? Cinema's legacy would be forever dented if this was all we had for CGI animation.
My dad took me to the MK show when it came to our city and i was only about 6 and it was so loud and crazy and so much stuff going on that I pissed my pants lol
Proud to say I sat front row at the Mortal Kombat live show. Most of the live show was pre-taped audio that the martial artists would sort of mouth and then do the choreographed fights as I recall. I loved MK so much I even had this movie featured in the video. Good stuff !
The Sub-Zero guy in the back during that interview... wow. Everyone in that studio were lucky he didn't have the courage to pull that gun he was clearly hiding behind his back. XD
I made my dad buy this vhs at a CVS in 2003 when I was 8. He watched in anger saying "I told you it was gonna suck". I watched laughing my ass off. Good memories.
I love the Rental Reviews series so much. Everything from the opening to the framing of the scenes is nostalgic, and everyone on every episode is a lot of fun and very knowledgeable, it really conjures up the "movie buff working in a crappy rental store in a strip mall on a creepy side street" feeling, the type of place you'd go just to browse and chat movies after school but you'd never suggest to your friends cuz of the part of town it's in.
Holy crap, I remember Windows 3D Movie Maker! My friend and I used to make movies on that all the time! When we finally got a microphone to add our own voices, shit got real! It was around the same time I got Warcraft 2 expansion set! I love the building my own levels and changing the voices of all the characters Orcs and humans! Ah, good times...
Yeah, I watched this a lot as a kid and was really impressed with the 3D fight scenes, and honestly even today, for that time, I think they are pretty impressive, but maybe that's just nostalgia...
Same here, I have no idea how we ended up with the tape but my brothers and I watched it over and over. This and Lion King have been permanently etched into my brain.
I watched the absolute fuck out of this when I was a kid and ALWAYS loved that dude standing there with the pose and that Johnny Cage shuffle back walk. Man good times. Thanks for making me feel unnecessarily nostalgic today
My favorite part of the movie was the character bios at the very end! It's like they started out as a copypasta from what was in the MK1 instruction manual, but enough there on the VHS to make them unique!
16:20 not only the 3d scenes were ok for the time, but they are the only things adding backstory to the characters, making this somewhat worth if you wanna see what the creators came up with for these characters. The 2D scenes are just a retelling of the characters going to the island, something we've seen a lot of times.
My Stepdad rented this for me back in 1995 at a Hollywood Video when I lived in Jeffersonville, IN on a Saturday Night... I remember watching this alone in the Living Room with both my Stepdad and Mom passed out in 2 different rooms...
I had this vhs as a child and boy does it bring back memories. Not like it was any good but what it & other videos like it was part of my life I’ll never forget.
Reboot was awesome. I watched the hell outta that as a kid. I still holdout that they may finish the show some day. That's gotta be the worst cliffhanger ending I've seen to this day.
Dug88 you never watched Super robot monkey team hyperforce go, did you? Or how they treated Code lyoko where the final episodes were not broadcast, only online
Dug88 well honestly, you should, both shows are amazing in their own rights. I won’t tell you how SRMTHFG left off. But I will tell you Code Lyoko stopped broadcast originally at episode 90, the last seven episodes being released online, so if you do watch it, that will let you know where the cliff hanging was
I bought this right before the Mortal Kombat movie came out in theaters. My Dad got it for me in Target or something. I was so excited for the movie and this was meant to get you even more excited/give you an appetizer. I loved it when I was little. I always noticed some of the stupid animations but I didn't think much of it. It's funny hearing them break down just how bad it is. I loved the idea of seeing the game characters come to life, and seeing who would "actually" win if they fought. Kung Lao losing to Goro, SubZero beating Scorpion. I still remember at the end, my Dad being disappointed that there wasn't a final fight. And even then I knew, you had to go watch the movie in order to see that.
The long haired dude is like a real-life George McFly if Marty hadn’t traveled back in time and George just kept getting nerdier even way past after Marty was a full grown adult.
I bought an SNES code book in the '90s and the only codes on it and that I know about for MK3 were 5 codes to put in on the menu: Kool Stuff, Kooler Stuff, Scott's Stuff, Sound Test, and an extra credit code.
I had were the codes to unlock characters. It was to the point that back then I could do the codes without even thinking about them. They were automatically remembered through my fingers.
As someone with both 2d animation and 3d modeling experience...and having seen this... "film"... I think Kieran could actually learn all the skills and completely remake this one in the one year time frame he stated.
Thank goodness you finally reviewed this, Kieran mentioned it once in another video and I was like, "OH FUCK I HAD THAT PIECE OF SHIT!!!" It is one of the worst pieces of Mortal Kombat media I've ever seen.
Is this a new series? I haven't seen this on Cinemassacre before... If it is new, great work starting another series. So much effort and dedication hahaha!
So, what are Macks' special moves? Bucket to the Head? Marbled Floor? Tar and Feather Buster? Blow Torture? Daisy Rifle Kiss of Death? Anchovy Pizza Delivery? 0_0 Kombat Kids want to know!!!
Considering 3d animation was still a very new concept this was somewhat impressive back in 94 or whenever this released. Also as a kid we didn't know any better.
You keep doing this! Everytime I start preparing a review for something, you swoop in and review right before I do! And then I dont want to look like I'm copying you so I dont do a video on it. No joke it's happened like 5 times since you started doing the video rental reviews. I really enjoy your reviews, but come on dude!!!
The movie is not worse than Mortal Kombat annihilation and I actually enjoyed that movie as a kid... Watching it now will bring back hilarious memories Edit: I really enjoyed that Kung Lao vs Goro fight as well
"There's too much violence. Mortal kombat has positive messages." the 90s were such a wild ride.
What's funny is there was a cancelled Mortal Kombat cartoon for girls at some point and they're all like...in school or something.
@@CartoonHangout curiousity got the Best on me, so what mk cartoon
He says violence has always been around
I used to watch this all the time as a kid 😂😂
@@CyrilViXP- Agreed.
JaxBlade- I used to watch this, all the time as a kid, as well...
I'm ashamed of myself for it, now.
So did I
Then again...maybe not!
Me too!
This shit makes the MK4 cutscenes look like veritable cinematic masterpieces...
...even the N64 ones.
Um you know that mk 4 is n64 right
Satoshi Kong I agree but there ain’t no fucking cutscenes
This is a lower-budgeted effort/pitch version of Mortal Kombat 4. (0:19)
@@theinanimateobjectlover6491 this is like a year late .. but it also came out on ps1, and the cutscenes were different for both consoles
@@Abdielll_13 Another year late, but it was also an arcade game.
I actually remember renting this from the video store as a kid and being impressed by the computer animation. Looking back, that seems so funny.
“This is cutting edge 3D animation. It couldn’t get any better than this.” Me in 1995. 😅
The code 466-466 = Unlimited Run What a great code!
I remember that. Good code
Ideal for glitches with reptile
Mortal Kombat Monday!
Dave Electronics that code was so vital in MK3 to be able to do combos
Thx!
I remember renting this as a kid and was so pumped to see this. Never have I tried to run away from a decision and VHS rental faster than this. I think I returned this back to the store as soon as I watched it. Some memories of money and time you wasted stay with you forever.
Imagine if Toy Story never happened, or turned out looking like this. Where would we be today? Cinema's legacy would be forever dented if this was all we had for CGI animation.
"I can't stand watching things on my computer"
- Man who makes things people watch on their computer
My phone usually
You can buy a DVD instead
I think he meant movies and tv shows, not stuff like UA-cam content. I could be wrong though.
"A darker shade of Goro" is my favourite metal album.
isn't that the one where he plays the drums?
@@AndyKusanagi86 No he plays bass.
Asher Tel'vallo br br deng
I prefer the romance series "Fifty Shades of Goro".
“A whiter shade of Goro” would be the perfect christian metal album.
My dad took me to the MK show when it came to our city and i was only about 6 and it was so loud and crazy and so much stuff going on that I pissed my pants lol
Lol ...I yelled you have a lumpy she yelled at me and I pissed my pants - Ricky Bobby son 2020
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thats awesome
lol nice
At the time, I bet you didn't think you'd be telling that story to as many as 566,000 people on the internet one day
Proud to say I sat front row at the Mortal Kombat live show. Most of the live show was pre-taped audio that the martial artists would sort of mouth and then do the choreographed fights as I recall.
I loved MK so much I even had this movie featured in the video. Good stuff !
The Sub-Zero guy in the back during that interview... wow. Everyone in that studio were lucky he didn't have the courage to pull that gun he was clearly hiding behind his back. XD
Probably would have just shot himself.
I made my dad buy this vhs at a CVS in 2003 when I was 8. He watched in anger saying "I told you it was gonna suck". I watched laughing my ass off. Good memories.
I can imagine your dad's face 😂
Hope you didn't pay more than $3.
@@Clay3613 that sounds about right lol
Lol im dead 😁😂😂😂😂
This probably never happened, but cool story bro.
I mean why would a film that came out only on VHS in 1995 be for sale at a CVS in 2003?
205-205 is the code to fight Smoke. I still remember after all these years. 😂
205-205 = Smoke
967-342 = Noob Saibot
969-141 = Motaro
033-564 = Shao Kahn
For anyone curious, the Kung Fu flick playing in the background is Dragons Forever!
Thank you! Was killing me
thank you, i know ive seen it, but i could not think of the name for the life of me
Thanks!
Benny was legit
I think I also saw a few shots from Police Story in there.
The star wars holiday special of the MK universe
Lloyd Vs agreed
Kieran's vocal impression of Raiden at the end was eerily perfect...
I was thinking the same thing bud
Whoa
I love the Rental Reviews series so much. Everything from the opening to the framing of the scenes is nostalgic, and everyone on every episode is a lot of fun and very knowledgeable, it really conjures up the "movie buff working in a crappy rental store in a strip mall on a creepy side street" feeling, the type of place you'd go just to browse and chat movies after school but you'd never suggest to your friends cuz of the part of town it's in.
I love that you guys have "Dragons Forever" in the background with "Benny" the jet fighting Jackie Chan. Classic!
There's just something about the original MK music and sound in general... I don't know what it is, but it's soooo good!
Holy crap, I remember Windows 3D Movie Maker! My friend and I used to make movies on that all the time! When we finally got a microphone to add our own voices, shit got real! It was around the same time I got Warcraft 2 expansion set! I love the building my own levels and changing the voices of all the characters Orcs and humans! Ah, good times...
In the mk tour interview it looks like they just taped bananas to scorpion’s face
I have to say this animation is one of my guilty pleasures, I’ve watched it as a kid and actually enjoyed back then.
Disgusting.
..
For me personally, I loved this show. It's full of good feelings and memories. Despite being bad, in my childhood it was the thing!! I love it.
Very cool
Yeah I watched it when I was a kid and I loved it
It was NO show. It was a shot movie that served as prequel or preparation for the feature film.
The was the greatest Dollar Tree find I had along with a vhs of the Mask animated series.
Dragons Forever (1988) is playing on their television in the background.
@Jason Chapa Yes, But it then later changes to Police Story (1985).
and police story
I watched this so many times as a kid, I remember the Goro/ Kung Lao fight blew my mind away visually
Yeah, I watched this a lot as a kid and was really impressed with the 3D fight scenes, and honestly even today, for that time, I think they are pretty impressive, but maybe that's just nostalgia...
Yup. Same here :)
I loved renting this in block buster.
Same here, I have no idea how we ended up with the tape but my brothers and I watched it over and over. This and Lion King have been permanently etched into my brain.
Me too, and I had completely forgotten about this movie until I watched this review. It's so weird remembering how awesome I thought this was lol.
I watched the absolute fuck out of this when I was a kid and ALWAYS loved that dude standing there with the pose and that Johnny Cage shuffle back walk. Man good times. Thanks for making me feel unnecessarily nostalgic today
When Scorpion fires his harpoon he shout's "Get over here!!...slowly".
or "Get over here!... Please"
"GET A LITTLE CLOSER PLEASE"
“Get over here………..If I can somehow figure out how to use this ropey thing”
9:26 *Is the highlight* ✅😁
My favorite part of the movie was the character bios at the very end! It's like they started out as a copypasta from what was in the MK1 instruction manual, but enough there on the VHS to make them unique!
Hey love your vids! Lol
@@mikehernandez8063 Thanks Mike!
16:20 not only the 3d scenes were ok for the time, but they are the only things adding backstory to the characters, making this somewhat worth if you wanna see what the creators came up with for these characters.
The 2D scenes are just a retelling of the characters going to the island, something we've seen a lot of times.
I went to the MK stage show, I've got the gold plated pog slammer to prove it.
I miss pogs!
Quite possibly the most 90's sentence ever uttered on UA-cam...
Pogs were awesome, better than Pokémon cards.
are they using the real sprite actor of sonya for the stage show?!
So do I! I never attended the live show but somehow it ended up in my possession. Think mom got mine through a mail away or something.
Best...intro...EVER! Love the MK arcade test menu theme. Well done!
My Stepdad rented this for me back in 1995 at a Hollywood Video when I lived in Jeffersonville, IN on a Saturday Night... I remember watching this alone in the Living Room with both my Stepdad and Mom passed out in 2 different rooms...
Oof. Sorry to hear their relationship wasn't that great.
"..and there's that 50 years old karate guy... Probably killed by Reptile or something"
😭🤣
I purchased this VHS for 45 cents on Amazon
Was it worth it?
@@kaimcdragonfist4803 Yeah
I had this vhs as a child and boy does it bring back memories. Not like it was any good but what it & other videos like it was part of my life I’ll never forget.
Intro style starts
"Okay, you earned my like"
Reboot came out before this and it looked way better
Reboot was awesome from what I can remember. Seems to be relatively unknown across the water. Not many people mention it nowadays sadly.
Reboot was awesome. I watched the hell outta that as a kid. I still holdout that they may finish the show some day. That's gotta be the worst cliffhanger ending I've seen to this day.
Dug88 you never watched Super robot monkey team hyperforce go, did you?
Or how they treated Code lyoko where the final episodes were not broadcast, only online
@@1mymm No...no I did not.
Dug88 well honestly, you should, both shows are amazing in their own rights. I won’t tell you how SRMTHFG left off. But I will tell you Code Lyoko stopped broadcast originally at episode 90, the last seven episodes being released online, so if you do watch it, that will let you know where the cliff hanging was
I remember buying this from Woolworths with my big bro when we were kids!
I loved it
David Tabor from
Aus? Lol I watched this so many times as a kid!
Woolworth 😮yoooooo we old af
I like that you have THEEEEE best fight scene of Jackie Chan's movies Dragons Forever on in the background.
It keeps distracting me from what they're even talking about lol
@@charlesmaclellan8124 haha nice 🙂
Any day my boy James uploads is a good day for me :)
Psi34ax me too bro
Psi34ax
... and my days gets ruined when Mike uploads 🙈
The day is indeed better in that regard.
Jackie Chan vs The Jet Urquidez in the background! Awesome!😎
Dragons Forever one of his best films
Review that Angry Video Game Nerd movie next.
Yeah that's gonna be good review
That ought to be "fun"... 😏
Hell yeah I'm in
That would be great.
Especially if James plays it like "Who the F is this nerd?"
@@damambinator7740 pretty sure that was The Pizza Guy.
I would like to see a review for
Cube (1997)
Cube²: Hypercube (2002)
Cube Zero (2004) and this one I haven't seen yet.
There awesome
The Great Austini *They’re
Love those movies ! Especially Cube 2 !!
"Im fucking Hungry !!"
Stabs Jerry for sustenance
Dude watch cube zero. It's the prequel
@@anthonygiovanni8434 Cube 2 is better than zero IMO. it's pretty funny lmao.
PLEASE DO THIS! Learn to 3D and we will crowd fund this project. Please reanimate this movie!!
Put me up for a $5 donation. Let''s get this done!
No
I think $5 would be all you need. That's probably a bigger budget than they had to work with in '95.
I bought this right before the Mortal Kombat movie came out in theaters. My Dad got it for me in Target or something. I was so excited for the movie and this was meant to get you even more excited/give you an appetizer. I loved it when I was little. I always noticed some of the stupid animations but I didn't think much of it. It's funny hearing them break down just how bad it is. I loved the idea of seeing the game characters come to life, and seeing who would "actually" win if they fought. Kung Lao losing to Goro, SubZero beating Scorpion. I still remember at the end, my Dad being disappointed that there wasn't a final fight. And even then I knew, you had to go watch the movie in order to see that.
That intro was great! It rivals the AVGN RE survivor intro.
Ed Boon would be giddy
Loved that re survivor intro
Thing that weirded me out the most wasn't Baraka or Kabal.
Why the hell does Kano have nunchuks!?!?
9:36 not even the real scorpion looked this dead inside and he was a hell walker
WTH dude. This makes the Transformers beast wars show from the 90s look like a masterpiece.
Dude, it was a masterpiece.
Beast wars is a masterpiece .
Beast Wars had animation that was spectacular for a 1996 TV series made entirely in CGI. The CGI in this was bad even for the 90s.
Do THE FACULTY(1998) next!! It's a 90's classic alien invasion/Monster movie!!!!!!
Jon Stewart with a goatee LOL 😂
"You wouldn't have liked it here anyway."
That is a great movie.
that's the movie where the kids needed to get high to stop the aliens right? I think usher is in it, I forgot about it until now...
Yeah that’s the one. I was like 8 years old when that came out and I thought it was the coolest movie ever, lol
The long haired dude is like a real-life George McFly if Marty hadn’t traveled back in time and George just kept getting nerdier even way past after Marty was a full grown adult.
Test your Might...
*Flawless Victory*
That's how Johnny C do okay? THAT'S HOW JOHNNY C DO!!!
"Where do you get these guys!?"
Dorkly 😏
"It's such a pain to look at because everything is hideous."
Ah! The 2006 budget-game problem!
I feel so bad for my parents I used to make them watch this with me hundreds of times
15:10 MK the journey begin: reanimated? That would be actually interesting.
This tape and the actual movie were a huge part of my childhood. I know its bad, but I still love it to death.
I bought an SNES code book in the '90s and the only codes on it and that I know about for MK3 were 5 codes to put in on the menu: Kool Stuff, Kooler Stuff, Scott's Stuff, Sound Test, and an extra credit code.
I had were the codes to unlock characters. It was to the point that back then I could do the codes without even thinking about them. They were automatically remembered through my fingers.
Not 'Extra Kredit Kode'?
i always watch in 360p to simulate the vhs rental experience of my youth
The middle picture in the thumbnail looked like drake of the 99 dragons...
The Animal Crosser of smash Ultimate That’s Shang Tsung
@@kool-aidmaster4789 I know that, I'm saying the art style looks like the art style of drake of 99 dragons
@@kool-aidmaster4789 that's Isabelle?
Tomislav Dragić How the heck did you get Isabelle out of Shang Tsung
@@kool-aidmaster4789 I dunno
I keep looking forward to your intros, you never disappoint.
@12:50 Hank Hill brings the pro-pain, I tell ya hwat.
Yes!
GOD DAMNIT BOBBY
Ha! Love that episode!
Thank you for saying what I was thinking.
Pain!!
As someone with both 2d animation and 3d modeling experience...and having seen this... "film"...
I think Kieran could actually learn all the skills and completely remake this one in the one year time frame he stated.
Tekken looks way better then this James. Apologize for that blasphemy.
Tekken 1 was horrendous though..
He also mentioned Virtual Fighter. The combat in that was slow and looked kind of like this.
Thank goodness you finally reviewed this, Kieran mentioned it once in another video and I was like, "OH FUCK I HAD THAT PIECE OF SHIT!!!" It is one of the worst pieces of Mortal Kombat media I've ever seen.
The 3D was not good for its time. Toy Story came out the same year.
I remember my parents wouldn't take me to see mortal kombat in the theater, and this was all I had to hold me over till it hit vhs...
POWERMAN!
I watched the animated movie as a child i think it was pretty bad ass back then but its totaly outdated now..
"It's such a pain to look at because everything is so hideous." - Kieran
I never knew these films existed.
You're much better off for that.
Unless you like things that are unintentionally hilarious because the quality is so piss poor.
Which I do.
good for you xD
The plug at the end for Cinemassacre Video was perfect
Is this a new series? I haven't seen this on Cinemassacre before... If it is new, great work starting another series. So much effort and dedication hahaha!
He has many of these Rental Review videos.
@@crimson90 UA-cam need to up their game on subscriber notifications in that case!
@@MikeyTaylorGaming Maybe it's just you, I have gotten every notification for rental review.
Kane Bravo I doubt it’s just him. I don’t get notifications for a lot of the channels I’m subbed too
Been going on since at least the end of the summer 2018
So, what are Macks' special moves? Bucket to the Head? Marbled Floor? Tar and Feather Buster? Blow Torture? Daisy Rifle Kiss of Death? Anchovy Pizza Delivery? 0_0 Kombat Kids want to know!!!
Way to *TEST* *YOUR* *MIGHT!*
I broke the anvil but my fingers are bleeding :(
I use to rent this from the local video store as a kid, cant believe its been 20 years! Miss those days
It's hilarious that the guy who is famous "on the computer" can't stand to watch things on the computer ;)
He said he can't stand watching movies.
That arm! Goro slowly, lightly slapping dark Goro's many hands away?! 💀👻
The sad thing is that Power Rangers' CG still hasn't improved much over the movie.
Mortal Kombat: Conquest is actually pretty cool with some great fight choreography.
wolf man Until you realise they weren't talking about Conquest...
You get a like just for that arcade startup intro.
Also, kudos for playing Dragons Forever in the background.
so at 9:35 did they just shove an entire bunch of bananas up Scorpions nose or something...?
Considering 3d animation was still a very new concept this was somewhat impressive back in 94 or whenever this released. Also as a kid we didn't know any better.
You keep doing this! Everytime I start preparing a review for something, you swoop in and review right before I do! And then I dont want to look like I'm copying you so I dont do a video on it. No joke it's happened like 5 times since you started doing the video rental reviews. I really enjoy your reviews, but come on dude!!!
90s CGI
my 5 year old mind: @____@
TOTALLY RADICAL TUBULAR MAN
When I was young (around 11-12yo) I remember watching this over and over again and being amazed by the 3D....
I'll see myself out.
jackie chan vs benny, i can´t stop watching the tv screen, that´s how powerful those fights are!
Ed Boone's answer "I didnt make that, AT ALL. FINISH HIM!!!"
The movie is not worse than Mortal Kombat annihilation and I actually enjoyed that movie as a kid... Watching it now will bring back hilarious memories
Edit: I really enjoyed that Kung Lao vs Goro fight as well
Loved the fatal 4 way reviews. Not quite the same now that it's down to 3.
I really enjoy these reviews, but i prefer all 4 of you in the videos
Oh it’s back on UA-cam James... it’s back
I watched this till the film broke inside
Congratulations, the *tape* actually broke before *you* did, watching this...hilariosity. ;P
15:52-15:55.; How come the camera zoomed in on The Angry Video Game Nerd like that?...
I use to love this move during my childhood I thought the 3D animation was badass but then again the was mid to late 90’s
Only one month left for Kieran's version.
sounds like we need to make a kick starter to see this re-reanimated ?
Of all the times James wore that Mortal Kombat hat, not wearing it here just makes just as much sense as the movie! Lol