The Xbox 360 Project Natal Cirque Du Soleil presentation of the new Xbox 360 Kinect! What put it over the top? The giant fake gorilla? The costumes straight from a Ukrainian ice dancer’s reject pile? The weird yuppie family, flying overhead on Archie Bunker’s couch? The giant real elephant? The voice-over stolen straight from your local planetarium? All that and more…and in the end the “OMG how totally fucking amazing!” that our last glimpse of Natal promised was replaced with an extravacheesta for a glorified Wii.

Well, now that I’ve thunk on it. The dance game looked fun because you actually have to dance, not wave a controller around. But I’m a hard core Star Wars freak and while I was watching the guy mowing down bitches with his lightsaber, all I kept thinking was, “that looks exhausting.” And when Darth Vader came out, I thought “Oh shit! I gotta fight Vader, too? I better hit the gym.”