"Lord of the Piercing" is a 3-minute short film by Emmy-Award winning director Joel Gallen and Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, the writers duo from "How I Met Your Mother". Obviously, it's a little spoof of the uber-successful "Lord of the Rings" franchise that was at its peak when this short film got made. Jack Black basically got the Ring as a piercing to his genitals and they used shots of the actors from the Peter Jackson movies to make it look real as if Black's character was really in the world of Middle Earth. Sarah Michelle Gellar also appears in here and finally takes the Ring off Jack. It's a mildly entertaining short film, but nothing too memorable really. Apart from that, Jack Black simply isn't a great actor. He hosted the MTV Movie Awards that year and they included this snippet in there for fun. All in all, pretty okay, but really no reason to watch it more than once or watch it at all if you don't care about the Tolkien trilogy.
Review of Lord of the Piercing
Lord of the Piercing
(2002 TV Short)
Nobody's ever going to touch that ring again
14 July 2015
Warning: Spoilers