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Honest Trailer - Mad Max: Fury Road

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Mad Max: Fury Road is the 115th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Dan Murrell, Erica Russell and Andy Signore. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max: Fury Road. The video was published on August 25, 2015, to coincide with the film's release on home video and Blu-ray. It is 4 minutes and 3 seconds long. It has been viewed over 8.5 million times. This Honest Trailer was critically well-received, and many sites drawing attention to the difficulty involved in making a funny video about such a high quality film.

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"So strap in for this summer's only hard-R movie made by a grandpa, that makes every other summer franchise look tame by comparison." ~ Honest Trailers - Mad Max: Fury Road

Script[]

In a world of wall-to-wall CGI, where practical action is a thing of the past (shows CGI-heavy action scenes in Terminator Genisys, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Jurassic World), a masterpiece of handcrafted death and destruction will rise... from the director of Happy Feet and Babe: Pig in the City. (George Miller) ...Wait, what?

Arthur Hoggett (Babe: Pig in the City): That'll do, pig. That'll do.

Mad Max: Fury Road

When a brutal patriarch oppresses his people, one woman will rise against him, and steal the brides who refuse to be his property, as this badass, sharpshooting truck driver races across the desert to freedom, and liberates the tortured human livestock from his oppressive rule. ...Oh, and there's a guy named "Max" in it, too; he just kinda hangs out.

Tom Hardy kind of stars as Mad Max, the role Mel Gibson got too mad to play; he's a man of few words...

Max: Water. / Bolt cutters. / No. / You. / You. / (snaps his finger and points while aiming his pistol at Toast)

...but many grunts (montage of Max grunting), who spends most of the film being chained to various things. Together, they'll embark on a two-hour game of Mario Kart from Hell, as a two-hour chase scene unfolds when they dare... to turn... left (shows Joe's army chasing after the War Rig), then... drive across the desert (shows Nux running after the War Rig), then... turn around, and drive back the way they came.

Lookout: That's them.

People Eater: Why are they going back?

Okay, it's a little short on plot, but who cares when the action looks like this?! (shows Furiosa ramming the War Rig into a Flamer's car, causing it to flip over) I mean, are you kidding me with that shot?! Or that one?! (shows Morsov leaping towards Max, armed with two grenade-tipped spears) OR THAT ONE?! (shows the War Rig being chased through a massive supercell) WITNESS THIS!! (shows Slit shooting at and blowing up Plymouth Rock, causing it to flip over in slow-motion) WHOO!!

Journey to a wasteland full of robot arms, flame guitars, and giant killer monster trucks, where humanity is running short on fuel and water, but everyone goes out of their way to drive an impractical gas-guzzler, and everyone wastes a ton of water. (shows Joe releasing a flood of water through pipes attached to his citadel) There has got to be a more efficient way to distribute that. (shows Joe's wives washing themselves with water from a hose, then leaving it running) Turn off the hose! At least put a bucket down, or something! (shows water from the hose continuing to spill onto the sand)

So strap in for this summer's only hard-R movie made by a grandpa (shows a photo of George Miller), that makes every other summer franchise look tame by comparison. Age of Ultron...

Joe: Mediocre!

Jurassic World...

Joe: Mediocre!

And Terminator Genisys... (shows Furiosa on her knees and yelling in agony)

Starring: Tom Hardly in the Movie (Tom Hardy as "Mad" Max Rockatansky); Fast & Furiosa (Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa); About a War Boy (Nicholas Hoult as Nux); Bane with a Sleep Apnea Machine (Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe); Eric the Actor (Quentin Kenihan as Corpus Colossus); Powders (shows a group of War Boys); Real Housewives of the Citadel (Abbey Lee as The Dag, Zoë Kravitz as Toast the Knowing, Courtney Eaton as Cheedo the Fragile, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad, and Riley Keough as Capable); You Will Never Be This Metal (iOTA as Coma the Doof Warrior); and Darude - Sandstorm (shows the supercell).

Mad Max: Road Trip!

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Honest title for Mad Max: Fury Road - Mad Max: Road Trip! Title design by Robert Holtby.

Let's be honest: the real winners in all of this are the people who make silver food mist.

Jon Bailey: (shown in his greenscreen studio holding a spray can of Wilton Silver Color Mist) Oh, what a spray! What a lovely spray! (sprays the can into his mouth, gags, then laughs) That stuff tastes terrible. (sticks his tongue out in disgust as he turns the camera off)

Viewer Comments[]

Say: you will arrive at the gates of valhalla, shiny, and chrome. - cyberspongebob

Say: Who's your friend who likes to play? Bing Bong Bing Bong. - 24musicka

Say: DIE POTATO!!!!! - Anvesh rao

Say: "I liked Fantastic Four" (Jon responds, "Uh no I didn't."). - TheStealthPrince

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Reception []

Honest Trailers - Mad Max: Fury Road has an 98.3% approval rating from YouTube viewers. Reviews for this Honest Trailer were overwhelmingly positive, with many sites commending Screen Junkies for producing a funny video about an excellent movie. The Nerdist wrote that Mad Max: Fury Road is "arguably one of the best films to come out this year, let alone this decade" but that "Honest Trailers really shine is when they lock onto fan-favorite films and tear them a new one." The Nerdist also said Screen Junkies "hit on everything we all don’t want to admit. The plot that is basically an unexpected left turn, the wasting of water in a world where it’s so very rare, and horribly fuel-inefficient vehicles."

Uproxx that the Honest Trailer "basks in the film’s practical effects and explosive cinematic glory, it does poke fun at grunt-master extraordinaire Tom Hardy’s ability to communicate with a variety of snaps, finger pointing and somber-sounding gorilla noise." The site also wrote that "Screen Junkies gives grandpa George Miller the praise he so deservingly, uh, deserves."

SlashFilm wrote that "most of the jokes made at the movie’s expense are because of how simply the premise is, but honestly, it’s the simple nature of the plot that actually makes Mad Max: Fury Road work so well." SlashFilm also wrote "this particular Honest Trailer recognizes the movie for its greatness, from the spectacular practical action to the gorgeous cinematography, saying that it makes every other summer franchise look tame by comparison. All this Honest Trailer makes me want to do is watch Mad Max: Fury Road again as soon as possible."

CinemaBlend remarked"just because Mad Max: Fury Road is a great movie, and it is, doesn’t mean that we can’t all laugh at it a little." In the same article, CinemaBlend argued that making this Honest Trailer involved a higher level of difficulty, noting, "the internet is full of videos featuring people beating up terrible movies. This is because it’s incredibly easy to do. It’s much harder to make quality jokes at the expense of a good movie. It can actually be even funnier, since you don’t hear those jokes nearly as often."

Production credits[]

Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - Mad Max: Fury Road

Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - Mad Max: Fury Road

Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey

Title design by Robert Holtby

Series Created by Andy Signore & Brett Weiner

Episode Written by Spencer Gilbert, Dan Murrell, Erica Russell, and Andy Signore

Edited by Dan Murrell and Jason Inman

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