History WebVideo / MisterPlinkettReviews

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pizza Rolls. Supposedly it's about all he eats these days.

* BreakoutCharacter: There's a reason that Mr. Plinkett took up 99% of [=RedLetterMedia=]'s main page before his own separate page was created.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Most of his accounts are senile ramblings, but he appears to be unusually old, dips into a deep, demonic-sounding voice on occasion, and several of his feats come across as decidedly beyond human capabilities. Whatever he is, he's pretty clearly not ''all'' human.

* TalkingToHimself: {{Smash Cut}}s are a frequent occurrence, making it seem like Plinkett interrupts himself. Before finishing a sentence, the screen will switch and he'll break out with the next point he's making. It seems to be a massively efficient and time-saving maneuver, as there are plenty of ideas the viewer understands before Plinkett completes the entire thought.[[invoked]]

** In the ''Revenge of the Sith'' review, when talking about Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon ''not'' being in the film as [[DamnedByFaintPraise one of the good things about it]], he ponders that if the Falcon had appeared, its original owner might have been a terrible, generic looking CGI character. When the Falcon pulls into Cloud City in the video, the character sitting in its cockpit is ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''.

Mike Stoklasa performs in voiceover as Harry S. Plinkett, who painstakingly reviews terrible films and sub-par offerings of beloved franchises. The character of Mr. Plinkett is a cantankerous old man prone to mumbling, mispronouncing words, and getting sidetracked on unrelated tangents. His {{review}}s are heavily sprinkled with increasingly overt insinuations that he is a SerialKiller who murdered his wives and regularly kidnaps other women. The reviews were an early trailblazer for long-form video essays, often extending beyond an hour.

Mike Stoklasa performs in voiceover as Harry S. Plinkett, who painstakingly reviews terrible films and sub-par offerings of beloved franchises. The character of Mr. Plinkett is a cantankerous old man prone to mumbling, mispronouncing words, and getting sidetracked on unrelated tangents. His reviews are heavily sprinkled with increasingly overt insinuations that he is a SerialKiller who murdered his wives and regularly kidnaps other women. The reviews were an early trailblazer for long-form video essays, often extending beyond an hour.

* AuthorUsurpation: While [=RedLetterMedia=] has made plenty of other videos, the channel is mostly known only for the Plinkett reviews.

* StockholmSyndrome: Over the course of the ''Attack of the Clones'' review, Nadine becomes increasingly sympathetic towards Plinkett. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the end, when it turns out to have been a ruse, which allowed her to escape... but then DoubleSubverted in ''Revenge of Nadine'', when she discovers that her time with Plinkett has impressed upon her a disdain for bad movies which ultimately leads her to save his life, so that he can make more reviews.

* ToTheBatNoun: Stupid grandkids, stop leaving toys in his creepy basement™. And stay out of his creepy house™.
-->"I've behn keepin' a record of it here'n mah creepy notebook."

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Plinkett accuses Indiana Jones of indulging too much in this trope, and haphazardly at that. Because the film is set in the 50s and uses a OnceAcceptableTarget (the Russians) as the villains, the filmmakers try to compensate by playing up the flaws of 50s American culture...with an evil Men In Black subplot [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse that goes absolutely nowhere]] and nonsensical lines like, "Of course I sold you out. I'm a capitalist."

* HollywoodTactics: One of his big complaints about ''The Last Jedi'' is how blatant this trope is there. He thinks that instead of being a NecessaryWeasel in the service of story and spectacle like in previous ''Star Wars'' movies it just makes every commander on both sides look like complete idiots.

** In the Episode III review, Plinkett mentions how a long, uncut computer-generated shot is no longer impressive, since entire movies are made by computers without real actors these days. As examples, he shows ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', and ''[[TakeThat Transformers]]''.

Mike Stoklasa performs in voiceover as Harry S. Plinkett, who painstakingly reviews terrible films and sub-par offerings of beloved franchises. The character of Mr. Plinkett is a cantankerous old man prone to mumbling, mispronouncing words, and getting sidetracked on unrelated tangents. His reviews are heavily sprinkled with increasingly overt insinuations that he is a SerialKiller who murdered his wives and regularly kidnaps other women. The videos are notable for their length, often extending beyond an hour.

* AngryBlackMan: Plinkett's primary gripe with Mace Windu is that he ''didn't'' adhere to this trope, and that the character was a complete waste of Samuel L Jackson's [[TypeCasting talent for playing this type of character]]. Moreover, he argues that Jackson was cast specifically to attract viewers who would expect him to be this trope. He says if they wanted to cast an African American actor then someone like Creator/MorganFreeman or Creator/ForestWhitaker would have been more suited to playing a wise Jedi Master.

** ''Star Trek: The''....[[StockSubtitle Star Trek]]."

* UncertainAudience: He believes that one of the reasons ''Crystal Skull'' proved so controversial was that the premise was a lot more muddled than the prior ''Indiana Jones'' films, which were straightforward GenreThrowback affairs to old adventure serials and films like ''Film/GungaDin'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. ''Crystal Skull'' aimed to be an homage to 50s sci-fi films about aliens, but it ran into the issue that actually going all the way and making something in the style of films like ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill'' or ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953'' would result in something that no longer felt like an ''Indiana Jones'' film. Consequently, they ended up simply grafting aliens and Cold War paranoia into an otherwise-standard Indy plot, which resulted in the film feeling a lot less coherent than its predecessors, since it ended up being too weird for established fans but not divergent enough to draw in new ones.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: [[invoked]]
** He believes that one of the reasons ''Crystal Skull'' proved so controversial was that the premise was a lot more muddled than the prior ''Indiana Jones'' films, which were straightforward GenreThrowback affairs to old adventure serials and films like ''Film/GungaDin'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. ''Crystal Skull'' aimed to be an homage to 50s sci-fi films about aliens, but it ran into the issue that actually going all the way and making something in the style of films like ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill'' or ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953'' would result in something that no longer felt like an ''Indiana Jones'' film. Consequently, they ended up simply grafting aliens and Cold War paranoia into an otherwise-standard Indy plot, which resulted in the film feeling a lot less coherent than its predecessors.
** He argues that a major reason for why ''Film/BabysDayOut'' failed is that it focuses so heavily on cartoonish scenarios and violence, but is filmed in live-action. This causes a lot of scenes to come across as painful and worrisome rather than cute and charming, such as a StrayingBaby wandering under a moving truck or the StupidCrooks being inflicted with incredibly lethal-looking injuries.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: [[invoked]]He argues that a major reason for why ''Film/BabysDayOut'' failed is that it focuses so heavily on cartoonish scenarios and violence, but is filmed in live-action. This causes a lot of scenes to come across as painful and worrisome rather than cute and charming, such as a StrayingBaby wandering under a moving truck or the StupidCrooks being inflicted with incredibly lethal-looking injuries.

-->'''Plinkett:''' ''This'' is the trailer for the new ''Star Wars'' film? Jesus, ''it looks amazing!''

* TheCynic: Generally characterizing George Lucas as "a businessman first, and a filmmaker second".
** Of course Lucas changed the title of "''Revenge'' of the Jedi" to "''Return'' of the Jedi" because revenge is incompatible with the Jedi philosophy, but Plinkett jokes that it was because "he discovered that having a word with one less letter in it would save him $916 annually on the cost of printing the logo on countless T-shirts, action figure boxes and posters".

* TheArtifact: Plinkett's ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' review is divided into a whopping seven parts. This was done to circumvent a limit that YouTube placed on videos that restricted them to being under 10 minutes. This limit is no longer in place, and the more recent Plinkett reviews are all single videos that are well over an hour in length.

** "''Avatar'' ushered in a new age of 3-D film-making.[[spoiler:And by age I mean six months]]."

** "Fuckin' Ray Charles could have seen that coming… [[spoiler:and he doesn't even know anything about Star Wars!]]
** ''Avatar'' ushered in a new age of 3-D film-making.[[note]]And by age I mean six months.[[/note]]

** Another good one from the same review, where he rants about how reviews have called the movie better because it's DarkerAndEdgier: "My ''[[ToiletHumour stool]]'' is dark! And doctor says that's bad! I don't know why he thinks he knows so much about interior decorating, though. (RimShot and a picture of a leather stool)

** In the ''Revenge of the Sith'' review, he jokes that if you arrange one letter in Sith, you get the word [[spoiler: Tshi, which he claims is Chinese for "Disappointed in the cooking of the duck meat." (A quick google search reveals its just a made up word that has no Chinese meaning.) ]]

** Another good one from the same review, where he rants about how reviews have called the movie better because it's DarkerAndEdgier: "My ''[[ToiletHumour stool]]'' is dark! And doctor says that's bad! I don't know why he thinks he knows so much about interior decorating, though. (RimShot and a picture of a leather stool)