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Where do I even begin...?
Were it not for having nothing to do while waiting for "F4 Thailand" to start, I'm pretty certain I wouldn't even throw an eye on this train wreck, but here we are. "Rainbow Prince" is the "Disney" BL musical nobody asked for. There's a palace coup in the kingdom of the fictional "Zurbania", and Prince Zafar (no relation to Jafar) just snatches the kingdom once his brother - the King of Zurbania - drops dead. And I mean, he literally drops dead. With the king in the ground, the queen - with her surgically implanted tiara - is locked away (in full drag, I might add) and Prince Zayn (said Rainbow Prince) skips town...and nobody - not a single Zurbanian, realizes that the entire Royal Family has gone missing. Ahhh, Zurbania - home to the world's largest population of idiots. Anyhoo, Prince Zayn arrives in Manila, spots Mikey, falls in love with him and hi-jinks ensue. There. That's your plot. Oh, and the "Disney" music - Walt Disney is certainly spinning in his grave.
"Rainbow Prince" is what I would consider an accidental comedy. The cheap and badly made costumes, the dollar store props, the uninspired musical numbers, not to mention the non-existent "acting" (which seems improvised most of the time) all add up to a crap fest to stop all crap fests. Oh, and let's not forget the moments of viewer discomfort where you actually are compelled to look away - the young Zayn in a pair of Speedos (in the year 2022!) being ogled by a bunch of grown-ass men and women (!), Zayn jumping naked into bed with Mikey when they first meet), Zayn making Mikey bend over (?) to watch the stars so that he could...ahhhm...do stuff against his butt with his crotch, the two young men and the drag queen (!) dining with the Queen of Zurbania and showing off their deep-throating skills using bananas!!! WTH!?!
There is one final parting gift however. If you hang around long enough, I can almost guarantee at least a guffaw when the crowd of CGI citizens of Zurbania gather to cheer on their new king. Talk about cheap CGI.
During the final moments of this series, as I sat watching, a fly started buzzing around the screen, and all I could think was, "So, yeah - excrement really does draw files." Fail.
"Rainbow Prince" is what I would consider an accidental comedy. The cheap and badly made costumes, the dollar store props, the uninspired musical numbers, not to mention the non-existent "acting" (which seems improvised most of the time) all add up to a crap fest to stop all crap fests. Oh, and let's not forget the moments of viewer discomfort where you actually are compelled to look away - the young Zayn in a pair of Speedos (in the year 2022!) being ogled by a bunch of grown-ass men and women (!), Zayn jumping naked into bed with Mikey when they first meet), Zayn making Mikey bend over (?) to watch the stars so that he could...ahhhm...do stuff against his butt with his crotch, the two young men and the drag queen (!) dining with the Queen of Zurbania and showing off their deep-throating skills using bananas!!! WTH!?!
There is one final parting gift however. If you hang around long enough, I can almost guarantee at least a guffaw when the crowd of CGI citizens of Zurbania gather to cheer on their new king. Talk about cheap CGI.
During the final moments of this series, as I sat watching, a fly started buzzing around the screen, and all I could think was, "So, yeah - excrement really does draw files." Fail.
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