Ever since I was younger I have been a huge Kevin Smith fan.
I remember being in middle school watching my first film of his, Dogma, and
loving every minute of it. Jay and Silent Bob we’re definitely my favorite
characters from the flick. Over the years I have looked up to Kevin and still
do a lot, although he does a little less film work and a lot more of other
things like writing or podcasting, getting his voice heard all over the world.
So when I heard his voice had reached a man by the name of Christopher Downie
and that this man wanted to make a web series based off of one of Kevin’s
podcast called Hollywood Babble-On, my mind had been blown to the max.
For those who don’t know Hollywood Babble-On is it’s a
comedy show Kevin Smith does with his K-Rock partner Ralph Garman, the man with
a billion voices or the next Batman as far as I’m concerned. What they do on
this show is talk about Hollywood and what’s going on in it with a funny spin.
If you haven’t checked it out yet then you’re missing you fool!!
Babble-On Begins, the web series that is based off of
Hollywood Babble-On, is about Kevin Smith(Mark Frost) & Ralph Garman(Jack
Fox) both being shun by Hollywood and not being taken seriously. So they decide
to don masks and become the Knights of Babble-On and take down the true
villains of Hollywood. As things heat u
things heat up though, one villain by the name of 8 Ball (Christopher Downie)
decides to take matters into his own hands. This series stars Mark Frost, Jack
Fox, & Christopher Downie, featuring voice over cameos by Kevin Smith
(Clerks, Clerks 2, 4321, Dogma), Ralph Garman (Red State, Sharktopus, Family
Guy), Catherine Reitman(Breakin It Down!), DJ James Franco(Tha Breaks), and
Kyle Hebert(Dragon Ball Z, Detective Conan, Final Fantasy XIII)
This series is one of those fan made films that I would put
up there with SModimations, which is now called SModCo. Cartoon Show, and the
fan made video of Jay and Silent Bob vs Freddy Krueger which I thought were
awesome. The way this flick starts off is pretty cool too. Kevin ends up
meeting is alter ego Slient Bob in a black and white dream which turns into a
nightmare just by Slient Bob asking, “How’d he get so fat”? The men play Kevin
and Ralph I think do a great job acting like these funny men. Mark Frost’s Kevin Smith had to be hard to do
because it’s hard to Kevin’s voice is hard to impersonate his voice. Jack Fox as Ralph was brilliant because he made
Ralph seem pretty smooth but also kind of a dick. Over all as a Kevin Smith fan
I had a good time watching it.
There was thing that I didn’t get about the 2nd
episode of this short series. As I watched the episode it started to do cuts to
8 Ball and a cunty villainess by the name of Man-Handler both fighting Kevin
and Ralph at the same time? Well I didn’t really get it at first and I asked
Chris about it. He said “I decided to edit it like a trailer to break the norm
a little bit, wanted something different”. And different it was sir. It wasn’t a bad choice because not many
filmmakers would do it and I totally understand where he is coming from. As
filmmaker you sometimes get bored doing the normal kind of editing and want to
experiment and see what you can do. 
Out of this movie came a music video which based off the
theme song of Babble-On Begins called Babble-On (Theme for Babble-On Begins).
This song is also written and performed by Christopher Downie and was released
for download on iTunes on March 27th, 2012. I for one could not stop
listening to this song and had no idea this guy had the singing chops. It seem
like he is just oozing talent out of him. Along with the web series and song he
started a fan site for all View Askew and SModcast related material made by the
fans, for the fan. I for one can’t wait to see where this site is going to go.
All and all this series, the song, and the creator are all
awesome and I would like to say that if Chris ends up doing a follow up movie
or another SModcast/View Askew related short, film, cartoon, or whatever I would
love to be part of it somehow, maybe just a small part? No? Yes? Do I have to
give up the balloon knot, because I will!! Ha Ha jk.
Babble-On Begins Series- 4 out 5
Evil TeddyBears (Episode two still confuses me a bit.)
Babble-On Song- 5 out 5 Evil
TeddyBears (I can’t stop dancing!!)
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