"Maze Runner: The Burn Trials" or "Out of the Maze and onto the Playa" is a 2.5-minute short film from 2015, the very same year "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" came out. And these 150 seconds do not only spoof the latter, but also "Mad Max: Fury Road", a film that is considered among the best and most successful of the year by many. but this review here is not supposed to be about any of these two blockbusters, but about this production by Oren Kaplan here. Overall, it's nothing really bad, but also not memorable. It's comedy exclusively and basically the stuff you see on Funnyordie for example. I personally felt there were some okay moments, here and there a funny scene, but nothing really that goes beyond sketch comedy and also some jokes were misfiring. Joe Towne certainly elevated the material at times, but the almost 3 million people who watched this on Youtube in the last 1.5 years may have been way over the top. I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
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