We’re getting a screener copy of Monster Camp. The guy is mailing it to me on Wednesday, so it should be here within the next couple of weeks.

Jawesome.

But seriously, Darkon is kind of amazing in a way. It reminds you of a time when you and your friends could run around the soccer field at school and pretend that you were ninjas or super heros (or Jedis or whatever), casting death spells on each other and writhing around on the ground when someone “shot you.” The fact that the subjects of this particular documentary are grown men–some of them with children and mortgages–is at least as much sweet as it is pathetic.

Okay, perhaps it’s a little more pathetic than it is sweet, but you get the idea. These guys and girls are doing something that makes them happy and their complete lack of inhibition is kind of contagious. Honestly, I’d give anything to go back to a time when my most dire concerns in life revolved around securing the allegiance of a group of Dark Elves–and let’s pause for a moment and ponder the clusterfuck of logic involved in a black man wearing the D&D equivalent of blackface, complete with milk-white eyebrows–a group that will help you storm a bolsa wood castle in the hopes of toppling a faux evil empire.

Simply put, if you’ve recently downloaded the lightsaber app to your iPhone or imagined that your frizbee is a glaive, then this movie is for you. And if you haven’t done any of those things, then there’s a lot to laugh at in this one. Either way, you win.

I agree though, wholeheartedly. Definitely weird, yet unshakably intriguing.