Since 2002
Good use of Jack Black. Be Kind Rewind was OK; but I don’t think it utilized him as well as it could have, and The NeverEnding Story III was an abomination even he couldn’t save.
I’m wondering if this movie was responsible for kicking the whole panda thing into high gear, or if it was only joining a preexisting bandwagon. Pandas really started showing up all over the place around that time, like, super-saturation.
OK, so they don’t really have anything to do with each other; but as I watched this, the idea become more and more deeply seated in my mind that this was somehow a prequel, of sorts, where Macaulay Culkin’s time spent with uncle Buck is what enables him to be able to do the things that he does in Home Alone (1990).
Huh. Well, apparently, “The concept for this movie (Home Alone) originated during the filming of a scene in Uncle Buck (1989), in which Macaulay Culkin plays a character who interrogates a would-be sitter through the letter opening in the front door.” So there is a real connection, at least, even if my own personal head-canon isn’t firing with a full charge of powder.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Jack Sparrow treads a very fine line between bad-ass…and Jack-ass. He leans dangerously close to the latter at times.
Life would have been much simpler for Ariel if all she had to do to get legs was to get out of the water.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
Well, they didn’t break another lamp off the wall; but that one pirate broke his frozen toe off, so I guess I’ll give that partial credit.
And Jack Sparrow continues his downward spiral; he still got some good moments though.
Ah, the sea turtle joke came back.
This would have been a very good place to end it; but I suppose there was more money to be made.