Nothing to watch on TV? Need a break from the frustrating game overs? Check out this amazing full-length Mega Man film created by fans. With no major studio or distributor, this Eddie Lebron fellow and his troupe are somehow navigating a copyright minefield and taking this microcinematic masterpiece on tour (apparently he has done this in the past with tribute film Ghostbusters: Generation, which I’m also going to have to watch later).
The special effects and CGI would be laughable if this had millions of dollars behind it, but they are absolutely awesome considering they definitely don’t. The plot, writing and acting are ho-hum in many parts, but overall it’s a really impressive movie. You can tell those involved poured their hearts and souls into it.
Oh, and a minor spoiler. Mega Man does kick ass, which makes it nothing like every attempt I made at those games way back in the day. My Mega Man got cut up at the ankles every half-minute by some annoying wall-crawling droid a third of his size. So, you know, it’s not completely faithful in that respect to one of the most frustrating side-scrollers I played in my youth. But that would have made a pretty short movie.
