Action Comedy: the definitive fine line between the breathtaking experiences of movement and sarcastic humour. A hybrid style genre that fuses two of the most notable film genres to cross our screens and forms into a new type. However, having been one of the oldest hybrid genres, it also stays one of the more memorable genres of film itself-and The Quest will prove that point with relative ease...
Two Tennesseans: Brandene (Charlotte Pell) and Charlene (Charlotte Cooper)-on vacation to the wide wilderness of Sherwood Forest, home to the once legendary Robin Hood, and the glorious land of England. Everything seems beautiful, by way of nature. However, how many laughs can a Camping Trip bring? None? Wrong. What shall surprise most budding Film experts is these Tennesseans inability to get out of even the simplest of situations. Yes, even when they already have a prepared tent with them, it unexpectedly (or as it so sullenly seems to Brandene and Charlene) collapses on them. It’s England. It’s autumn. It starts raining. You get the picture.
The ‘exciting’ trip continues throughout the morning, when Brandene and Charlene (having finally put the tent up) wake up to an alien figure, a hunter of the forests and a searcher of ‘groovy’ expectations. Oh, it can only be a hippie from England. Yes, and as all hippies do, they fret about the ‘consummation of the planet’ and ‘how the world will end’, if people ‘don’t do something (dude)’.Ah yes, she has a name-‘Moon drop’. The Tennesseans are in a state of shock, about to fall backwards due to such a frightening awakening. Then in comes everyone’s favourite (or most hated for that matter) Action comedy character, a forest warden from Germany who hates the environment and is slightly confused as to why he has been given this job (he’s only German after all), comes into the scene and brushes Moon Drop away, using only the harshest swear words from the German dictionary and quite literally insulting the ‘helpful’ hippie. It will have you flying off your seat, and by the end you will bear no voice as you will laugh that much. It’s Stark-raving bonkers. It’s verbally abusive. It’s amazing.
The tension begins again. This time, in an abandoned (?) house, made from only the dirtiest materials, threatening the forest with it’s ‘architecture’. And guess who’s stumbled upon this disgusting discovery? It can only be young Brandene and Charlene, who, after finally figuring out what Moon Drop was waking them for, find someone’s plans to sell the trees and build them self a lovely, wide house. And then, that ‘someone’ comes in, and discovers them. Oh dear, it seems that this ‘someone’ appears to be of male substance, a dark-coloured uniform, and grumbling with a strange accent. Now, we all know that Brandene and Charlene aren’t very good at remembering particular faces (neither are they good at anything for that matter), but even the most forgetful person couldn’t dismiss this man’s face from their own minds. It is Hans, the forest warden, the German who hates his work, but loves his native language.
Like any other action comedy film, the main characters (Brandene and Charlene) decide to dismiss themselves from the situation, eventually losing them in the mist of the forest. And guess who’s there to save them from this perilous adventure? Why, it’s innocent Hippie Moon Drop! The one who is there to say that famous line ‘I told you so’, and hopefully rescue them from being arrested. Aha. And therein lays the satirical twist. The evil one, Hans, is eventually arrested, cursing underneath his breath with his own native language, and now, the forest remains as it was at the start, beautiful and full of wonderful pleasures.
This is a film that will silence the doubters, prove the haters wrong, and impress the willing audience. A new generation will begin.
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