Ash Ketchum is the character from Pokemon.

::whoosh::

He's making this work better than ever. Ash gets more fleshed out as a character with every version, and even the way he's aged over the years works.

In the first two Evil Dead movies, Campbell is usually the only person onscreen, and he has to keep on reacting to crazy, low-budget shit, and making it work. When he's fighting with his own hand, which is supposed to be possessed, it's silly, but its effective. I bet that if Daniel Day Lewis fought with his own hand, it would look ridiculous.