Community “For A Few Paintballs More” S2 E24 Review + Recap

Amazing, as usual. My Community reviews probably sound a bit like a broken record. “This was a great episode!”  ”Clever and witty, but with a sentimental heart.” ”Hilarious!”

Well, it was. All of that. “For A Few Paintballs More” parodied one of the most-parodied film trilogies of our times. However, the Star Wars references didn’t overpower the story, jokes, or character development. Many shows can insert funny references. The brilliance of Community comes in the fact that you can completely miss all the pop culture references, and you’ll still have a good time watching.

While not as thematically or stylistically strong as last week’s episode, the season finale wrapped up the season and tied it with a neat bow. This episode followed where last week’s “A Fistful of Paintballs” ended. A huge paintball fight at school, with a prize of $100,000. The cliffhanger twist involved Stormtrooper-like professional paintballers streaming out of a van, set to invade the school.

Oh, and they kicked Pierce out of the group again.

Community “A Fistful of Paintballs” S2 E23 Review + Recap

With Matrix bullet time shots, garishly saturated settings, and no-nonsense humor, “A Fistful of Paintballs” is basically what I’m assuming Quentin Tarantino’s new spaghetti western will be like.

Community loves its theme/genre episodes. They’re such entertaining features that the trend was even meta-joked about in a prior episode of Community. “A Fistful of Paintballs” took the action movie exaggerration of paintball from last year’s “Modern Warfare” and turned it into, well, you really have to see it to believe it.