Kill Bill vol. 2

Episode 119: Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)

Theme: Wives’ Choice Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis continue the Bride’s bloody path of catharsis with Kill Bill: Volume 2 — the martial-arts-western-soap-opera hybrid that somehow blends American Ninja × Kung Fu × Mom (the CBS sitcom) × the eyeball scene from Evil Dead 2. It’s dustier, talkier, slower, meaner, and packed with more emotional shrapnel than a Pai Mei training session.

The hosts break down:

• Bud: the walking country song — bouncer, toilet cleaner, margarita artist, and the only assassin who actively downgrades his lifestyle post-crime.
• The Pai Mei flashbacks: beard strokes, bamboo flutes, ponytail whooshes, and training so brutal it makes your knuckles hurt from your couch.
• Elle Driver: a 20-minute rage tornado who refuses to be second place and ends up second-eyed instead.
• The coffin escape — dirt, darkness, panic, a switchblade, and the most triumphant three-inch punch in cinema.
• The final showdown: truth serum darts, daddy-daughter movie night, emotional surgery, and the greatest five steps ever taken.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 9½ Clogged Toilets
Curtis — 91 Poisoned Fish Heads

Next week: Wives’ Choice Month continues with Valley Girl (1983) — Nicolas Cage, neon, punks, prepsters, Romeo-and-Juliet-but-mallier vibes, and a soundtrack that could raise the dead.