“Pretty Good” opens with an Ian Cosco skit that was funny when it was a Mike Myers skit, in “The Spy Who Shagged Me,” in 1999. There’s ironic facial hair that is probably LOL-worthy if you’re too young to grow any, and tons of homoerotic winks that are just safe enough to be bromantic.
The intro may be better suited to Van Wilder 4, but who really cares about intros anyway? What kind of loser would talk about an intro in a review? It’s the skiing that matters, and we all know that smaller budget productions like “Pretty Good” have ten times the creativity of the big dogs over at PBP and Matchstick. Right?
About ten minutes into the flick you realize you’re watching a Jr. Varsity version of EDIAS (or any other Poorboyz movie ever made). There are lots of switchups, conquered multi-kinks, BC wedges, and convoluted videopark creations. If you want some more details, just read that review and take it down a notch or two.

The skiing is good, but not super-pro level. There are some bangers if you watch closely, and more than one involving snow-covered evergreens. I could act like I know what stuff like “HD” and “digital” means, but I actually have no idea. So, the filming is nice and the soundtrack doesn’t sink to “Swollen Members” levels or anything. I’m pretty sure you could sync it up with EDIAS, Wizard of Oz/Pink Floyd style.
The FIRST Minnesota section is really good. There’s some real creative urban trickery in there that would make a fantastic 5-minute edit. Did Will Wesson already do most of it? Yes, but it’s still good stuff. I’ll take secondhand creativity over boilerplate rail-jump-pow-repeat formula any day. You may have noticed the emphasis I so subtly placed on the word “first” at the beginning of the paragraph. I did that because there is a second.
This is noteworthy because it’s a 50 minute video. You know I have to slip a title pun in here, so here goes: this movie was pretty good at a half hour…it’s a marathon of C-footage by minute 50.

Should you buy it? Seems obvious, but I’m going to throw you a curveball: Rage and their distributor were smart enough to make this baby available for something like $6 on iTunes…so you should buy it. I don’t care if you never watch it, but if they can prove that it’s a profitable formula maybe we’ll see other videos move this way. Then maybe we’ll get some fresh blood in here to make a movie that uses creativity to plug the holes in its budget (and leaves out the 90’s movie re-jokes).