In other remarks you may notice there hasn’t been a great deal of activity in the past month. Haven’t been slacking, just been non-stop busy with projects at work that have been taking up a lot of my free time to write, but I’ll post when I can and always am responding to your mail. Thanks!

The opening was great! Andy goes through different films of last year. I always love it when they do stuff like this inserting them in situations from films. It helps bring the show to a good start. It was entertaining and well put together. Justin makes a cameo to introduce Andy.

To not go too too much into the show and bore with specific details, there were definitely some great highlighted shorts I laughed pretty hard at including the hilarious, “Explosions.” Basically sums up what so many action films do and they hit the nail on the head in covering pretty much all of the films that use the walking away from explosions shot. I also liked the 80′s approach they took on it along with a special appearance of Neil Diamond played by Will Ferrel.

Though I didn’t see the film, “Doubt,” I did laugh pretty hard at the idea of there being a video game made based on a film that looked like there couldn’t possibly be a video game made from. Akiva Schaffer made a special appearance in the “Doubt: Flynn’s Revenge Video Game” film. I also enjoyed how they kept it old skool by making it for the Sega Genesis. Bonus points for that!

The “Starf leet Clown College” short was also very well done! I laughed quite a bit in that.

There was also a first sneak peek at the new Twilight Saga’s “New Moon” trailer of which Andy starred in. You can view it here. I had to watch it a few times cuz I was laughing so hard at how they poked fun at it using a Dracula vampire and Teen Wolf! I’m sure the new gen peeps didn’t quite catch that.

Among other things The Lonely Island Medley was great! Sung by Leann Rymes, Chris Isaacs and Forrest Whittaker, the 3 took the audience on a magical journey of a few of The Lonely Island’s most recognized songs. Of course at the end the official endorsement by Andy, Akiva and Jorma sarcastically crying in happiness of their songs’ performance by high profile celebrities.

Obviously one of the most talked about moments of the show was when Sacha Cohen as one of his many alter egos, “Bruno,” being lowered into Eminem’s seat with his butt right in his face. I definitely think it was planned, but I’m not so sure Eminem was in on it. I highly doubt he’d agree to be a part of such a stunt. I think it was mildly funny, but I don’t think it was necessary and regardless what people may think of Eminem I don’t think it was a very tasteful joke done on national television. Which leads me to the show’s big gripes.

Below isn’t really Lonely Island Related, but I am reviewing my take on the whole show, so with that in mind, read on…

Part of the show felt a bit kiddy in what films were nominated in certain categories. I certainly would be okay with placing “Twilight” as a contender for the show. It definitely appealed to mass audiences and it’s clear people really love the franchise and give kudos to the cast/crew for winning all the categories they were nominated for. However, the show felt very Nickelodeon with, what I thought, was terrible placement of “High School Musical 3″ into the running for any categories. It felt more fitting for a more youthful show like the Kids Choice awards or something. There was WAY TOO much Zac Efron in the show. I don’t feel he deserved the award he got at all, nor did I feel Any of the High School Musical nominations were well deserved. I know one relative that went and saw that film and other than that I don’t know a soul who sat through that.

I was also VERY unhappy that they didn’t even get any scren time to cover the Best Villain category won by Heath Ledger for his performance of The Joker in, “The Dark Knight.” Yes, the film that got completely butt overshadowed by “Twilight” and other films that didn’t even hold a candle to Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece. While I was expecting “Twilight” to win most awards, I have to say that I can’t believe how little love “The Dark Knight” received from MTV. The show definitely seemed to cater more to the younglings than it did the adult audience. Youth are large in numbers and strong in being online savvy to go and vote the heck out of their favorite tween films. I think it was a terrible thing to not acknowledge at least the Best Villain category and was insulting. Shame on MTV for that.

I would hope that next year MTV chooses more carefully their choices for best everything. I will stand by my words when I say I didn’t think anyone from “High School Musical” performances of such significance to be nominated for the categories they were up for. How the heck did that film even get a slot against “The Dark Knight” anyway? Am I the only one who is irritated by this?

Anyway, in closing, Andy Samberg did a great job hosting the show this year and The Lonely Island came through with some very funny shorts and entertainment throughout, but MTV did a terrible job in the choices they made for these categories, and they truly blew off acknowledging one of the best performances of a movie villain in motion picture history. Terrible, MTV. Just terrible.