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I completely agree. There's a sort of modern sentiment that a reference is funny in itself, and that fourth-wall is funny just by being fourth-wall. I also had
by someguyorother 6y ago
I completely agree. There's a sort of modern sentiment that a reference is funny in itself, and that fourth-wall is funny just by being fourth-wall.
I also had the feeling it was a little too proud of some of its (other) jokes, and wore them out.
- silveroriole 6y agoIn this case it’s not even that modern, since Gilbert was responsible for the MI2 ending. So in the last 30 years he still hasn’t realised that ending with “it was all a dream” isn’t really that clever!
- someguyorother 6y agoThat's part of it, but there's also the part that values shout-outs or references for their own sake. There's much more of that now than there was in MI2's time.