Saved By The Bell: Wedding In Las Vegas Film Review

 

There are some shows and movies that just scream nineties and well the movie that i'm about to review today is one of those movies. It's also a movie that has for some strange reason been lost to the sands of time which is weird because the 2020 reboot of the show openly referenced this movie and so then join me as I review the movie that should have served as the end to this franchise with the movie in question being called simply just "Saved By The Bell: Wedding In Las Vegas" enjoy.

The plot of this movie is teenage sweethearts Zack and Kelly are about to get married if only they can pay for the wedding. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best as the film adds in another plot line which just isn't needed in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski. Also starring in this film is Mario Lopez as A.C. Slater , the late Dustin Diamond as Samuel 'Screech' Powers , Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle , Liz Vassey as Carla , Spencer Rochfort as Curt Martin , Mark DeCarlo as Freddie Silver , Melody Rogers as Mrs. Melanie Morris , John Sanderford as Mr. Derek Morris , the great Dennis Haskins as Mr. Richard Belding , Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano , Bob Golic as Mike Rogers , Kiersten Warren as Alex Tabor , Gilbert Gottfried as Bert Banner , Pat Corley as Sheriff Myron Thorpe , Marianne Muellerleile as Diana Beaujolais and Richard Schiff as Deputy Dano.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As Saved By The Bell was one of those shows that was never known for having great acting in it and so to expect this film to have high quality acting in it would just feel weird and really oddly out of place for this franchise.

For those of you that don't know this film is a follow up to the final episode of Saved By The Bell: The College Years. With the events of this film having been set up in the final few episodes of that show however you don't really need to have seen that show all that much as apart from one scene at the end and one at the beginning there's next to nothing that connects the movie to that show and while yes it would help to least watch those last two episodes it's not really a must watch as this film doesn't tie up an of that shows storylines at all.

In what was a shockingly common trend for movies that featured teen sweethearts getting married in Las Vegas this movie also has a mob story. Which is just unneeded as it adds nothing to the overall plot of the movie and is there just have a car chase scene and nothing more then that which makes me wonder why they bothered to include that plot line in the movie as the main plot line is what the fans of the show are here to see and it's that plot line that alot of people who even had just a passing interesting in Saved By The Bell are here to see.

This movie really should have been the finale for the franchise as a whole as the whole hook for this franchise was the whole will they won't they relationship between Zack and Kelly. With that now settled and all of the characters having moved on to the next stage of their lives there was no need for that dreadful spin off Saved By The Bell: The New Class to even happen as this film already gave us a satisfactory conclusion to this world and to these characters and so there was no need to produce a spin off show without these characters that people had really come to love at this point in the franchises history.

This film just looks and feels cheaply made which does make sense as this was a made for TV movie but at the same time you still have to look expensive. You can tell that this movie was cheaply made because they make it really obvious when their a stunt person and they have some really obvious dubbing for those scenes as well and on top of that the opening credits look like the type of thing that someone would put on one of their home movies and not something that a major network like NBC would have on one of their movies.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty five minuets and fifty three seconds. Which for a film like this one is pretty much the exact running time that you'd expect it to have and to this films credit it does make the most that it can do with that running time however they really could have expanded upon the main plot and given the returning something more to do then just a cameo near the end of the film all by removing the pointless mobster subplot but I will admit that this film does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best. As this film does have some jokes that will put a smile on your face but at the same time his film features alot more bad joke in it then it does good jokes in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if this film was the end of the Saved By The Bell franchise it would have been a very serviceable end but as it is it;s just a decent film that's a time capsule in to the nineties and nothing more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Saved By The Bell fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Saved By The Bell 2020 TV Series Review

 

It seems we are now living in an age where every TV show from the late eighties and early nineties is either getting rebooted , remade or a sequel. Well there's a new show that we can add to that ever growing and seemingly never ending list and just like with the new series of Animaniacs this show not only brings back several cast members and is a show that I was excited to watch and so here is my review of the 2020 sequel of Saved By The Bell also called "Saved By The Bell" enjoy.

The premise for the show is that Zack Morris is now Governor of California and one day he closes down alot of under privileged schools and so in order to save himself he sends all of those kids affects to higher performing schools which includes Bayside High. The original Saved By The Bell didn't have a story either and so to expect this new version to have a plot would be stupid and the premise is honestly really interesting even more if you watch the Zack Morris Is Trash Youtube series.

This show actually does have alot of the original cast reprising their roles with those reprising their roles being producer Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris , producer and still hot as all hell Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski , producer and very hot as all hell Elizabeth Berkley as Jessica Spano and producer and seemingly never aging Mario López as A.C. Slater. Joining the are John Michael Higgins as Principal Toddman , producer Josie Totah as Lexi , Mitchell Hoog as Mac Morris , Belmont Cameli as Jamie Spano , Haskiri Velazquez as Daisy , Alycia Pascual-Pena as Aisha and Dexter Darden as Devante.

I have to say that as someone who grew up with the reruns of the original Saved By The Bell when it was on in the mid nineties I loved seeing the old cast together to me it was like seeing a friend that you hadn't seen in a long time. It helps that the acting from both the old and the new cast was honestly alot better then it had any right to be anyone who has seen the original Saved By The Bell knows that the acting isn't always that good  but here the acting is honestly really good with alot of the actors giving some really good and funny performances.

Now this show is a single camera comedy which means that it wasn't filmed in front of a studio audience which I have to admit I missed the studio audience aspect of the show. However due to how this show is being made it means that we get to see to the school from angels that just aren't possible with a live audience and so for me it's something that works well in the shows favour since it makes the school look alot bigger and it makes it look like an actual school and not a TV show set.

One of my biggest worries about not only this show but really any show these days is that this could be very woke. I won't lie there are alot of scenes that defiantly but at the same time the original show also dealt with social issues as well and so it would seem very out of place if this reboot didn't talk about social issues that are effecting todays teenagers , on the flip side of that however this reboot / sequel does get a little heavy handed with the issues that it's talking about which is something that I personally didn't like.

Like alot of shows these days this show is airing exclusively on a streaming service with the streaming service in question being the NBC owned Peacock. Peacock / NBC it seems are following the Netflix and Hulu trend by releasing all the episodes at once which to me isn't my preferred way of watching a TV show i'm old fashioned and I prefer to watch TV shows weekly however here I felt that releasing all of the episodes at once worked in the shows favour just because I was honestly having such a good time watching the episodes that I just had to watch the next one.

I want it known that i'm basing this review of episodes one , two , three , four and ten and so i've watched more of this reboot then I have the Animaniacs reboot. As such even tho i've watched five full length episodes I do realise that i've missed at least one appearance from an actor from the original show but at the same time i've seen more then enough episodes to form an opinion on this new show and unlike many critics who work for publications I don't do my reviews based of a single episode so there's that at least.

Each episode or at least each of the episodes that i've seen run no longer then thirty one minuets with I think the longest episode being episode one with runs for thirty one minuets and thirty one seconds. I honesty feel that this franchise works best in thirty minuet doses but at he same time since this sequel show is so good I honestly would have minded if a few of the episodes were a bit longer because I was having such a good time watching each episode.

I will say that if your a fan of the Zack Morris Is Trash Youtube series then you'll love this show because it really does hit home how much of a horrible human being Zack Morris really is. Even the premise of the show pretty much tells you that this guy is a terrible person which is honestly something that I loved because looking back all of these years later yeah Zack Morris was a really terrible human being.

Now then boys and girls this is a comedy show after all and that means that I have to talk about the jokes that are in this show. I'm not going to lie I thought that this show was honestly funny you can tell that the writers of this show are fans of the original show and so because of that you get alot of jokes that also serve of homages to the original show which while those were funny I did grow tied of them just because it was the same kind of joke and after awhile it got tiring to see that same joke playout in this show but that's just me.

Overall I can say that this reboot / sequel / revival gave me everything I wanted but that's also the show's biggest problem because it didn't give me anything that I didn't know that I wanted. I can very easily say that this show is ten times better then Saved By The Bell: The New Class but that's not really a high bar to reach and I do recommend any Saved By The Bell fans check this show out and yes the theme song is pretty bad as well as for what rating I give this show this show gets a 7 out of 10 from this old school Saved By The Bell fan.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Wikipedia , Google Images or the official Saved By The Bell fandom wiki page. In what is becoming a bit of a trend for me I honestly have no idea which website would be best to get images from either show or anything to do with Saved By The Bell just because the quality across all three websites is about the same and so I say use whichever website you want and remember Zack Morris Is Trash.