Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles (2003) (TV)

User Rating:

9.1/10   

Directors:

Burnie Burns
Matt Hullum

Writers:

Burnie Burns (writer)
Matt Hullum (writer)

Release Date:

25 November 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | War

Tagline:

War is hell

Plot:

In between Halo and Halo 2 there followed a brief period of civil war of Red Vs. Blue.

Plot Keywords:

Halo | Halo 2 | Battle | Online Cartoon | Machinima

Cast

Burnie Burns	...	Pvt. Leonard L. Church / Lopez The Heavy / Vic / Vic Jr. / The Warthog / Leonard / Red Zealot / Phil (voice)
Dan Godwin	...	Pvt. Franklin Delano Donut (voice)
Geoff Fink	...	Pvt. Dexter Grif (voice)
Gustavo Sorola	...	Pvt. Dick Simmons (voice)
Jason Saldaña	...	Pvt. Lavernius Tucker (voice)
Joel Heyman	...	Pvt. Michael J. Caboose / O'Malley (Omega) (voice)
John Ferrell	...	Pvt. Jimmy (voice)
Kathleen Zuelch	...	Freelancer Tex (Alison) (voice)
Lance McKee	...	Pvt. Mickey (voice)
Matt Hullum	...	Sarge / Medical Officer Frank 'Doc' DuFresne / Wyoming / O'Malley (voice)
Randall Glass	...	Vic (Season 1) (voice)
Yomary Cruz	...	Sheila the Tank (voice)
Jordan Burns	...	Lady Donut (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rebecca Frasier	...	Sister (voice)
Gavin Free	...	Red Guard
Ed Robertson	...	Capt. Butch Flowers (voice)
Nathan Zellner	...	Andy The Bomb / The Alien (voice)

Also Known As:

Red vs. Blue (USA) (short title)
Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles - Season One (USA) (DVD box title)
Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles - Season Three (USA) (DVD box title)
Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles - Season Two (USA) (DVD box title)

Runtime:

550 min | 529 min (DVD edition) | New Zealand:6 min (approx.)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

3.15 : 1

Certification:

New Zealand:R13 (DVD rating) | Australia:M | USA:Not Rated

Company:

Rooster Teeth Productions

Trivia:

In episode 28, Sarge and Simmons attempt to run over Lopez with the Warthog, mistaking him for a Blue soldier and then tried to run over Lopez. Right before this, Lopez rants to Tucker and Caboose about the day being known as the day he shall be victorious. At this moment, and as the Warthog moves toward Lopez later, we see through his eyes. At first, we see a directives screen which in the audio commentary is told to be a RoboCop reference. Lopez's "Prime Objectives" (Hate the Orange One, Fix Everything, and Call Mom More Often) are based on RoboCop's "Prime Directives."

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In episode 39, the scene at Battle Creek where the Red Zealot was holding the blue flag before he was mobbed by the Blues. Just as the Red Zealot was being mobbed, you can see his name appear on the top-center for a split second: "Hambone".

Quotes:

Grif: So all we know is that there's gonna be some kind of an upcoming campaign...
Sarge: Possibly.
Grif: And that the Spartans will be involved in it...
Sarge: Those are your words.
Grif: But that we can't know anything...
Sarge: I can't say.
Grif: Including who we're fighting...
Sarge: I have no comment for the subject.
Grif: Or if we're even fighting in it...
Sarge: Sarge: I plead the fifth.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Soundtrack:

A girl named Tex

A Giant Leap Into Machinima

Red vs Blue is a delightfully funny and witty (sometimes) machinima series that spans over 20 or so episodes, that has been combined into one movie. The RedvsBlue Season 1 DVD. Machinima is the type of filmography that uses video games or virtual reality to illustrate a story. Red vs Blue, or RvB, uses Halo to play out the story of the feud between the Red team (Simmons, Grif, Sarge, Donut, and Lopez)against the Blue team (Church, Caboose, Tucker, and Sheila). After the blues notice they are outnumbered, they call for re-inforcements from a freelancer (mercenary) named Tex. For more, you'll just have to buy Season one of RvB to figure out the story, and learn more about the characters that us RvB fans, have come to love.