Bruce Redeems Himself - Partly - With "My Name is Bruce"
Even after the abuse I felt after watching The Man With the Screaming Brain, I dared to watch Bruce Campbell's movie, My Name Is Bruce. It was also directed by Bruce Campbell, starring Bruce Campbell playing.... uh, Bruce Campbell. Kinda. A fictionalized version of himself. I hope.

It was campy, cheesy, low-budget, stupid, full of crappy special effects and buckets of fake blood.

And I actually enjoyed it. Maybe it was the self-referential humor. I could have dealt with a little less Ted Raimi, but ... meh.

The story is cribbed from Galaxy Quest: Bruce Campbell - as himself - is kidnapped by a fan to save a town that is being terrorized by a vengeful monster - amusingly enough, a Chinese patron god of Bean Curd. The fan has convinced the town that Bruce's on-screen heroism can somehow translate to real life. For his part, Bruce Campbell believes it is all an elaborate birthday prank by his agent, and plays along - until he discovers that it is all real.



Anyway, I doubt it would appeal to people who aren't Bruce Campbell fans on some level. And maybe not even then. Maybe my standards were just lowered to the ocean's floor by The Man With the Screaming Brain, and My Name is Bruce seemed like Citizen Kane by comparison. But I got a kick out of it, and so I thought I'd share.

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