Since 2002
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this…
I’m a bit disappointed. I was fully expecting this to be extremely overrated; but I actually think it’s only moderately overrated.
How about that? It turns out there are actually songs in this that aren’t Let It Go!
I am pleased on a technical level. The snow physics and simulation are cool.
So I’m not the only one who noticed this. Actually, it’s also kind of like UHF, except this didn’t happen. Also starts out kind of like Blues Brothers getting the band back together.
The songs are pretty good in this, although I still like Movin’ Right Along more. And now I have to go off-topic again. I’ve wondered for a long time why the Studebaker was chosen to be the car used in the original movie. Was it the car with the funniest name? Was it the funniest looking car? Was it the cheapest car they could find? Was it the easiest car for the Muppets to “drive”?
Extremely obvious, predictable ending. I knew exactly who was going to transform into what before the five minute mark.
The chase, fight, Kenai’s fall, and…crap I’ve forgotten her name already…well, when she ran up to him…I was getting Beauty and the Beast flashbacks from that whole sequence. Although, Instead of Kenai dying and coming back to life while transforming back into a human, this was more like Shrek, with Fiona becoming an ogre.
Starting to get tired of these, “you have to marry this person!” “but I love this other person!” plots. Mulan 2, Alpha and Omega, and now this.
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this…actually there should be Aurora Borealis here.
Eventually no one watching this for the first time are going to know who Bob and Doug Mckenzie were. That was a nice nod to their beer without actually mentioning beer.
Strange Brew was actually one of those movies I remembered from my childhood; but I had no idea what the name of it was, and I was very happy when I discovered it again.
I should say more about Brother Bear, shouldn’t I? … but nothing really stands out enough for me to mention.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
It was much easier to enjoy this one as there wasn’t a heap of broken backstory distracting me the whole time; but good grief, this should just be called “Fan Service: The Movie”
Baxter Stockman, Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, The Technodrome, Casey Jones…oh, and the theme song. Ah, but Baxter Stockman didn’t turn into the fly yet; so at least they’re saving something for a third one.
Third one needs to remake Pizza Power for the credits.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
“How did you get my number?” while a Skype logo is visible on the screen…I don’t really think Skype works that way.
Oh, I wasn’t expecting Whoopi Goldberg.
OK, that’s a bit BS. April’s father being professor scientist man, who is responsible for everything, is basically just like in that other Spider-Man movie where Peter Parker’s father is professor scientist man.
Eric Sacks feels like a Willem Defoe character.
I really like how Splinter was portrayed here.
So unlike with Spider-Man, I have significantly more experience with TMNT to know whenever they are “screwing up” the lore; but none of the previous material has ever been consistent with each other in the first place, so I don’t object to changes that aren’t stupid; but there are more than a few changes here that are stupid.
Rating: 6 cheese pizza out of 10 cheese pizza.
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987)
I’ve always like this. The creepy old mansion, the treasure hunt, the secret passageways.
I’ve never been a Scrappy-Doo hater; but then again, this for the most part was my only exposure to him. Maybe I would be if I had grown up on the original Scooby-Doo Where Are You first and then transitioned into Scrappy-Doo.
The background music for this is quite odd, though I don’t really have any other old-school Scrappy-Doo fresh in my head right now so I can’t say if the soundtracks were always that…eclectic?
When I a “young’n” and saw the dancing pants for the first time I thought it was the funniest thing ever.
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Well, that was a thing, again.
Almost thought I put the wrong movie in for a second.
They completely lost sight of the source material.
Ugh, not feather fingers again…
What’s the airspeed velocity of a wolf-laden goose?
OK, that’s a little clever with the double meaning behind eat food, get gas.
This kind of feels like it’s…borrowing…a bit too much from Pocahontas and The Lion King; I mean, technically not really; but…
OK, so everybody has little people inside their heads.
Do the little people inside everyone’s heads have little people inside their heads?
Do the little people inside the little people’s heads have little people inside their heads?
Do the little people inside the little people’s heads inside the little people’s heads have little people inside their heads?
Is it turtles all the way down?