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Khrunwahl02 Since: Nov, 2015
07/09/2018 20:29:30 •••

Quality and cleverness of jokes vary per video, but usually their videos aren't funny enough

I feel Smosh has made lots of decent videos, but since 2010 or 2011 their videos have declined in quality. Smosh is starting to emphasize Quantity over Quality of their videos I suspect this is because the more videos they upload, the more ad revenue they can generate regardless of if that video went through careful processing and review. They do make decent videos like "Teens in the Wild" and "Sexting Gone Wrong" and "Breaking the Habit" and "Gamer Gets Trolled!"

I don't really think Ian and Anthony are good actors, they spend most of the time on-screen acting like children and it seems that they have a hard time trying not to laugh when pretending to be angry or serious.

Their Food Battle videos make no sense whatsoever, I don't find them funny at all - all they do is try to use foods as everyday tools such as shovels, windshield wipers, toothbrushes and video games. I mean, is that supposed to be funny?

I think their "If ____ were Real!" videos can be funny, but they overuse the same joke often by saying that because of all the technological innovation we're seeing today, movies from the 20th century would be a lot different than they were if they were made today.

Some videos that I think are just plain lazy and were only made just to keep up with the promise of a new video every Friday include "Driving Me Crazy" and "Stop Copying Me" and "Sleeping Pill Disaster" and "Badass New Power Rangers". Also the "Motion Gaming Sucks" video was just a mediocre remake of "First Shooters Suck" What improvement did "First Shooters Suck" need? If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

I also think Smosh should stop capitalizing the names of all their videos, it's pretty childish and unnecessary to make all your video names come out in capital letters like LONGEST STARING CONTEST EVER or SMOSH FOUND DEAD or I'M NOT RACIST!!! as if shouting those things always make it funnier.

Remember "Charlie the Guinea Pig"? He was just a guinea pig with a human mouth pasted over his real mouth, and it didn't look realistic. Smosh could also use some polish on their computer animation skills and digital video editing skills - but perhaps you shouldn't blame them because Smosh isn't exactly a financially thriving empire like Disney Company that can make impressive CGI so I'll overlook Smosh on their roughly done computer-graphics.

Thanks for reading my review - especially if you've read all of it. Feel free to reply to my review, in fact I hope I get replies for my review about Smosh!


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